Celeriac Salad

This is what a celeriac root looks like.To be honest I'd never heard about it till me and my lovely wife hit a "french" place in Hell's kitchen (yes, there is a place named that in NY).
The restaurant looked very oldish from the outside but the head waiter who was smoking outside saw us judging the menu and said we should go in. Personally I just wanted some quiet place where I could talk so the picture of the grandma owner bought me.



Working it.
It is simple enough, just chop the leaves and then using chopping motions peel the skin off. Don't even bother with a potato peeler it wont work well as due to the root structure you will lose I'd guess 20%.

End of the process you should have what looks like a potato
after you peel it.

 Simply slice it into thin chips.

Then simply cut it into long sticks.
It takes while to get the hang of it but hey
gotta have an excuse to work on your knifing skills.
The sticks are very crunchy and have a slight celery taste which will taste great with the condiments.

These are the condiments we will use to flavor it.
Salt
Pepper
Nayonaise or Mayo
Mustard

We added capers and to spice
it up we added some Wasabi which
gave it a nice kick.



There are many variations you can go with, it's a french recipe so I am sure there is some "right" way to do it that is taught to young aspiring chefs.
Knock yourself out.

So add it all and mix. Pretty easy no ??
I usually add it as a side to chicken.
Southern Fried Chicken and my illustrious Saar Chicken.

Celeriac Salad a la Layla