Despite the fact that the apple is a fruit, and celery is referred to as vegetables, these two products combine perfectly. Both of them contain vitamins and healthy minerals, and also have a refreshing taste. Below you will find a selection of celery and apple salad recipes. It would seem, what scope can there be for culinary experiments? Two ingredients combined in a salad bowl with some dressing will not give a completely new taste. However, do not forget that apples are sour and sweet, juicy and fleshy. And with celery, all parts of the plant are eaten, and each of them has its own taste. The root is cleaned and rubbed. He gives the dish a nutty flavor. The stalks and petioles of celery are very tender. They give the salad the necessary juiciness. And finally, the leaves of the plant completely replace parsley or cilantro. And if we introduce other components into the salad, then new horizons open up for our culinary experiments.
Simple salad with petioles celery and apple
Just two ingredients, but how delicious! And most importantly - useful. In this salad we use young celery stalks. And take an apple, green, sour. We clean it from the skin, remove the box with seeds. Lash the fruit pulp coarsely or cut into small cubes. Drizzle with a little lemon juice. For one large apple, you need to take four stalks of celery. Grind them in exactly the same way as the fruit. Combine both components and mix. Salting such a salad is not recommended. You can fill the dish with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream. Proportions - at your discretion. Since the mayonnaise is already salty, then if you dress the dish only with it, it will acquire a more vegetable taste. With only sour cream in a simple salad with celery, the apple nuance will be dominant. You can fill the dish with Greek yogurt - this will reduce its total calorie content and add a pleasant sourness. Want to complicate the snack a bit? Then add a handful of herbs (arugula, for example) or lettuce leaves to it.
The simplest salad of celery and apple root
And how, especially not wisely, to prepare a snack from the underground part of the vegetable? Celery root looks like a turnip. But under the dirty yellow peel is a very tasty solid edible portion. Most often, the celery root is ground on a coarse grater. But there are recipes where it is proposed to cut the vegetable into thin strips. Like apple flesh, celery root is oxidized, darkens in the air. To make the salad not only tasty, but also beautiful, the vegetable and fruit are sprayed with lemon juice. And if you include other ingredients in the dish, then we cut celery and apples at the very end of the cooking process. Now, in fact, we describe the recipe for a simple salad of celery root. One hundred grams of hard cheese with three large chips. In the same way, grind a piece of celery root (100 g) and a large green apple. Salt the dish, season with black pepper and a small amount of mayonnaise.
"Health"
If you use only the basic recipe, then such a salad will charge you with energy for breakfast. And if you include boiled chicken breast, pieces of fried chicken, chopped steak, cracklings or even fish among the components of the dish, then it will completely replace your dinner. Consider first the basic celery salad recipe. Peel the walnuts. You can also use cedar, pecans or hazelnuts. We need a little less than a glass of nucleoli. In order for the nuts to become appetizingly crispy, we fry them in a dry pan. Now we tear 30 grams of salad leaves into the dish with our hands. We clean the celery tuber. We will need a piece weighing about 120 grams. We cut it into small cubes. Apples (one large or two medium) choose sweet and sour varieties. We clean, cut in the same way as celery. We mix everything. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Dress with mayonnaise. If you follow the figure, replace this sauce with sour cream or extra virgin olive oil.
With carrots
Now consider recipes for delicious salads with celery, which include other vegetables besides apples. Carrots will make the dish even more vitamin and healthy. Since this root crop does not darken in the air, start making salad with it. We clean one carrot, wash it and rub with large coarse chips. Now peel a quarter of the celery tubers. Grind it also on a coarse grater. Next, let's take an apple. We give preference to acidic and juicy green varieties. Peel a large apple and rub it with large chips. Finely chop some celery leaves. Sprinkle the salad with lemon juice and Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Salt to taste. There is also a dessert version of this salad. In it, you do not need to add greens, as well as salt. Apple should take red, bulk, sweet varieties. And it will be very appropriate to add a teaspoon of sugar and a handful of raisins.
Another recipe with carrots
The dish has a completely different taste, because this salad is prepared from a celery stalk, and not from the root of the plant. We clean the average carrot, my, three. We chop the three petioles of celery in the same way. Peel one large and juicy apple. Cut the seed box. Grind the pulp on a medium grater. We combine all the ingredients. Pour a tablespoon of thick cream. For taste, add a little liquid honey. The recipe above is basic. It can be supplemented with nuts (walnuts, cedar, roasted peanuts) or raisins. Only the dried grapes must first be filled with very hot water, and then ten minutes to strain. Raisins are not only better washed, but also slightly swell. Alternatively, try to season the dish not with honey and cream, but with condensed milk.
With tomatoes
Instead of a side dish hard for the stomach, serve this delicious salad with meat or fish. Peel the celery (root or stem), wash it and cut into thin strips. Heat a little refined vegetable oil in a pan. We pass the celery root to a golden hue. The stem can be simply cut. Sprinkle with spices - so the taste and aroma of the dish will be more vivid. We chop the large onion (preferably sweet, salad) with thin half rings. But what if we have only ordinary onion at our disposal? Then pour the chopped onion with boiling water and add a pinch of sugar. After some time, drain the water. And onions that have lost their bitterness can now be added to a salad of celery, apples and tomatoes. Two strong meaty tomatoes cut into cubes. In the same way, we chop 2 apples of any kind. It is important only to clean them in advance and choose seed boxes. Salad dressing needs to be done like this. Take a jar with a screw cap. Squeeze out juice from half of lime or lemon. Add a little olive oil, a teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of juice. Screw the lid and shake the container so that all the ingredients of the sauce enter the connection. Water the salad with dressing. Garnish with finely chopped greens and olives.
With orange
Add some citrus to the salad with celery and apple - and you will feel how the taste of the dish is enriched. In this recipe we will add orange with sweet bell pepper. Take three small pods, preferably in different colors. Wash, cut the stalks. Thoroughly clean out all the seeds. We rinse inside. Cut the flesh into thin half rings. Four small celery tubers peeled. They can be rubbed or cut into thin strips. Three sweet and not too juicy apples are peeled and peeled. Cut the flesh into thin plates. Pour them with juice squeezed from half a lemon. We clean one large orange (or pink grapefruit). We disassemble it into segments. Gently release the pulp from the whitish films. Now combine all the ingredients in the salad bowl. Season with sugar, a pinch of salt. Sprinkle with sour cream. Instead of an orange, you can take a few sweet tangerines, while reducing the amount of sugar.
Spring salad with oriental notes
The whole secret of this dish lies in the gas station, and only in it. After all, consists of a salad of celery and an apple variety Simirenko. Despite such a meager list of ingredients, the taste of the dish is amazing. We start cooking with dressing. Pour a teaspoon of soy sauce and lemon juice into a jar. Add salt and sugar, as well as freshly ground black pepper. Dijon mustard is a special charm of dressing. Just one teaspoon of this product transforms the taste of the whole dish. At the end, add a quarter cup of olive oil. We screw the lid and shake it vigorously with a jar until all the ingredients of the sauce turn into something like an emulsion. Now we are preparing the actual salad with celery and apple. We clean both ingredients, cut into strips or grind. Water the dressing and mix. You can sprinkle with cheese.
With cheese
Both apple and celery have a refreshing taste and are low-calorie foods. To make a hearty salad, you need to add something nutritious to it. For example, cheese. Three 150 grams of fermented milk product. The cheese variety is unimportant. The main thing is that it be solid enough to be rubbed. Since we are preparing a salad from a celery stalk, take two of them, wash and cut into medium cubes. Grind the flesh of two apples in the same way. Here, preference should be given to sweet and sour varieties. Sprinkle apples with lemon juice. Catch the ring of canned pineapple from the can and cut it into medium slices. Combine fruit and vegetable. Season with sour cream. Sprinkle with salt and sugar. Shuffle. Garnish the salad with a hat of grated cheese.
With chicken
Let's see how else you can increase the nutritional value of low-calorie ingredients. Chicken meat has a neutral delicate taste, and therefore it is combined with absolutely all products. For salads, boiled chicken breast is most often used. Fill it with water, put the saucepan on the fire. When the liquid boils, add salt, add peppercorns and laurel leaves. Cook, removing the foam, over low heat until cooked. Cut the meat into small pieces. If desired, they can also be fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. For a salad with chicken and celery, you can take a prepared carcass - smoked or grilled. Just remove some meat from the bone, freeing it from the skin. Then everything is simple: peel the root or stem of celery and apple, cut them into strips. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Salt and pepper. We season the dish with mayonnaise, into which we squeeze a clove of garlic through a press. You can also include some Korean-style carrots or raisins in the appetizer, depending on whether you want to get a spicy or dessert shade.
Royal Salad
This dish will become a real decoration of the festive table. It is known that not everyone likes the spicy taste of celery root, but in the "Royal Salad" it sounds completely different. For cooking, we need a ready-made chicken thigh. We give the skin to the cat, the bones to the dog, and cut the meat along the fibers with oblong pieces. We clean the large celery root and cut into large slices. Fill with water, add a teaspoon of vinegar and put on fire. After the liquid boils, cook another ten minutes. Cool the celery and cut into thin strips. In the same way we grind 150 grams of champignons and two sweet and sour apples. From the latter you need to remove the skin and remove the seeds. We combine all the ingredients. A delicious Royal Royal celery salad is seasoned with mayonnaise. Take care of the figure? Then dilute in equal proportions mayonnaise with sour cream.
With eggs
Peel the celery root and apple and cut into strips. Chop the onion with thin half rings. Two hard boiled eggs. Clean, cut into slices. Cooking the sauce. To do this, add mayonnaise (four large spoons) a little granular mustard and wine vinegar (to taste). We tear salad leaves in a dish. Instead of Iceberg or Romain, you can use Beijing cabbage. Then we cut the head out large. Pour the sauce. Shuffle. We spread the apple, and on top of it - celery and eggs. We chop the walnut kernels (40 grams). Dill greens finely chopped. Sprinkle with all this a salad of celery, apples and eggs. Bon Appetit!