Leftover Celery Salad Recipe

This Celery Salad is a useful recipe to make use of up leftover celery all of us have lurking behind the fridge, normally shopping for an entire bunch solely to make use of only one or two stalks for a recipe. It’s form of pickled, form of salsa/relish-like, and severely good!

Welcome to Day 4 of the inaugural Vacation Salad Marathon, a sequence the place I’m doing the polar reverse of the same old baking countdowns and bringing you a brand new salad recipe each single day via to Christmas Eve! 

I’ve bought a little bit of a novel one for you in the present day ….

I don’t exit of my approach to make this salad. It’s merely a way to make use of up leftover celery which I at all times appear to have. It’s a necessary flavour base in small portions in so many dishes such utilizing as a soffritto / mirepoix for Italian classics like Beef Ragu and Osso Bucco, or finely diced for meat fillings reminiscent of in Sausage Rolls.

However it’s by no means a star ingredient (sorry celery – however we each realize it’s true). So what to do with the remainder of the bunch?

Make this Celery Salad!

The flavour profile is slightly bit distinctive, utilizing a mixture of caraway seeds and recent dill. However that is what makes it so good! They work extraordinarily properly collectively, with the delicate earthy aniseed flavour of the caraway seeds echoing the recent flavour of the dill.

In case you’re cautious, have a browse of the glowing critiques on the RecipeTin Household No-Mayo Coleslaw that additionally makes use of this mix. 🙂 First timers are at all times pleasantly stunned!

Right here’s what it’s worthwhile to make this Celery Salad:

Finely slice the celery on an angle, then toss it along with every thing else. Depart it to take a seat for 10 minutes so the dressing softens the celery a contact and the flavours meld collectively. Then serve instantly or depart it for as much as 2 days. The longer you retain it, the softer the celery turns into, and begins to form of pickle (however not as bitter as a real pickle). It’s extremely addictive!

It is a small batch salad. 5 celery stalks that the recipe requires makes a aspect salad for simply 2 – 3 folks. I take into account it extra to be a type of additional salads that you just put out for selection, form of such as you do pickles truly.

When it comes to pairings, it would go properly with any Western meals. The caraway, dill and “pickling” high quality nonetheless does give it a Northern/Central European vibe – suppose japanese France, Scandinavia, Germany and past. So it’d go notably properly with conventional dishes from these areas like crispy crackling roast pork, smoked fish or gravlax, smoked salmon dip, quiche lorraine, or alongside potato rosti to chop via the richness. But it surely’s equally at house alongside any Western-style protein mains, notably white meats: fish, chicken and pork.

Like to know what you suppose in the event you attempt it!

What’s the Vacation Salad Marathon?

That is my inaugural Christmas recipe countdown the place I’m sharing 30 salad recipes in a row till Christmas Eve – one thing utterly completely different to folks’s common baking countdowns!

These salads are along with my common 3 new recipes per week. As a result of aren’t you bored of the same old tomato-cucumber-lettuce backyard salad routine??

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