Got a celeriac - HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Whilst I was out shopping the other day I decided to purchase myself a celeriac. Now I am not quite sure what I should be doing with it. I also have turnips swedes and parsnips and a plethora of other veg.

Any help and assistance with celeriac would be much appreciated.

Thanks 🙂

[guardpig]

Weird isn't it - love the smell.  Only ever use it to make soup with as no idea what else to do with it.

Large pan.  Head of celery and 2/3 good sized leeks and the celeriac.  Peel and chop the lot(now one is supposed to use celery hearts but that's a waste of money and I quite like the gentle greenish colour!).

Melt butter, stick veg in, sprinkle with sea salt and saute for 20 mins(or whenever you remember).

Add at least 1 pint of veggie stock, at least cover the veggies.

When it is all soft blend it smooth, adjust the consistency with water(which is why you don't add too much stock above), add 1 tsp mustard and mix well.

That gives you a basic rich creamy soup(and lots of it).  The recipe says to add pine nuts, having seen the price of pine nuts I don't bother.  I do add crispy chopped up bacon Yummy

Freezes well but looks curdled on defrosting which a good stir when heating up sorts out.

Somewhere i actually have a recipe with quantities but since the scales broke I just guess.

Sits quietly in the "anybody know what else we can do with celeriac" corner.

[huggles1253]

I read that wrong and thought you were cooking for someone with dietary problems!

[stan3502]

Mash it just like you would a potato or purree

[twishy123]

Take celeriac out of bag and place on chopping board....

Find largest knife possible as they are very tough to chop...

approach celeriac with an air of complete competence...

pause.....collect your thoughts and then begin to chop with authority...

find bigger knife...

put plaster on cut finger....

pick celeriac up off the floor...

place back on chopping board,inspect from every angle to find it's weak spot...

take deep breath and attack again...

swear roundly and bandage hand....

wipe sweat from brow and wipe blood off the work top....

take celeriac to back door as the light is better there...

drop kick celeriac over fence and open tin of beans 😐

[guardpig]

I am like that with Swede, Twishy.  We do not have swede EVER.LOL

OH bought me new knives for Xmas.  I can cut myself just looking at them.!!. 

[stan3502]

:^O @ twishy

[ilove2patch]

I roast it like parsnips cut into chunks. It is quite a strong flavour. It's lovely in soup or mashed with potatoes.:-) Poor vegetable can't help looking ugly! lol

[caryl576]

As said above, mash or soup,

My fav: Celariac & Bacon soup

1 celeriac,

bacon lardons (or cut up streaky)

1 onion

stock (ham or veg or chicken) or water

Thyme (fresh or dry)

butter

Grate celeriac roughly (makes it much easier to cook than dicing it)

chop onion & soften in butter,

add grated celeriac & stock & thyme

bring to boil then simmer for 45 mins

salt/pepper to taste

Blitz in blender

[cookiecookuk]

thanks for the ideas:-) as i have been walking past in my t###os for ages but never plucked up the courage to buy one.?:|i might do this weekend.:-)but i love twishys account of it .:^O but i also struggle with some swede at work when i cook it.:-)

[stampingpat]

LOL Twishy.  You must be a fly on the wall here.

Oh that soup sounds yummy. When do you add the lardons? After the soup is done as a garnish or do you add it with the onions in the butter? I think I will now be on the look out for a Celeriac too. 🙂

I did have it once in France as a salad thing. I think it was grated and mixed with carrot and a cream sauce or mayonnaise to bind it. It was really tasty.

[duck_a_lorange]

I did have it once in France as a salad thing. I think it was grated and mixed with carrot and a cream sauce or mayonnaise to bind it. It was really tasty.

I've had it as part of a three-colour salad - grated celeriac, grated carrot and grated beetroot (arranged like a clover-leaf, not mixed) - with some sort of vinegary or lemony dressing. That was nice too.

[captainbovine]

drop kick the celeriac .... now that was funny:^O

I just don't like the smell of it.

I'd prefer the beans too Twishy:^O

[amandacleggart]

Nice chopped finely in colslaw too.