Celeriac
Celeriac is a round to oval root vegetable with pale brown skin, white flesh and an aromatic celery character.
- Plant
- Apium graveolens var. rapaceum
- Flesh
- White and firm
- What you eat
- Enlarged underground root
Try it in the kitchen
Try celeriac raw in salads or cooked in soups and gratins. Slice it finely for a salad with apple, or cook it for a purée to accompany roasted vegetables.
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Root celery, rather than stalk celery
Choose the rounded underground part sold as sedano rapa. A named cultivar such as Di Verona identifies a particular example; its name alone does not establish the growing origin of the root you buy.
