Recipe: Celery root salad with carrot top vinaigrette

Total time: 20 minutes

Servings: 4

1 (1 1/4- to 1 1/2-pound) celery root

1/3cup olive oil

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1/4teaspoon minced garlic

2 tablespoons chopped carrot tops

1/4teaspoon salt

1. Peel the celery root with a large chef’s knife. Cut it in half, then cut each half in thin slices. Stack the slices and cut them into thin rectangular sticks. It’s easiest to do this in 3 or 4 batches. Place in a mixing bowl.

2. Combine the olive oil, lemon juice and garlic in a blender and purée at high speed until emulsified, about 30 seconds. Add the carrot tops and the salt and purée just until they are finely chopped and still visible in specks in the pale green dressing, 30 seconds. Taste and add more salt if necessary.

3. Pour the dressing over the celery root and stir gently to combine. The salad should be very lightly dressed, with flecks of green clinging to the celery root sticks.

4. Transfer to a serving bowl. This salad can be made up to an hour in advance and held at room temperature. The celery root will soften slightly and become silkier.

Each serving: 215 calories; 2 grams protein; 13 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 18 grams fat; 2 grams saturated fat; 0 cholesterol; 277 mg. sodium.