Celery Root and Celery Leaf Salad

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This is simply a beautiful, unusual-looking crockery that earns large points for treating earthy celeriac (celery root) arsenic a prima ingredient.

It's champion to usage a mandoline for this recipe.

The shaved celery root, without the walnuts, tin beryllium dressed and refrigerated up to 4 hours successful advance; bring to country somesthesia earlier serving.

Ingredients

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Servings: 6-8

For the vinaigrette

  • Peel of 2 preserved Meyer lemons oregon regular preserved lemons, homemade oregon store-bought, chopped into julienne (very bladed strips)
  • Scant 1 cupful crème fraîche
  • 2 tablespoons caller citrus juice
  • 1 spoon minced shallot
  • 1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon poppy seeds
  • 1 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
  • Kosher salt

For the salad

  • 3 baseball-size celeriac, peeled (about 2 1/2 pounds total)
  • 1 cupful walnut halves, toasted (see NOTE)
  • 1 cupful picked celery leaves (from the bosom of 1 clump celery)
  • 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
  • 3/4 cupful caller pomegranate seeds (arils)
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • Flaked oversea salt, specified arsenic Maldon

Adapted from "A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories," by Renee Erickson with Jess Thomson (Sasquatch Books, 2014).

Tested by Sandhya Babu.

Published December 30, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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