Fennel, celery and apple salad - Real Recipes from Mums

One of the beauties of doing a big weekly Fruit and Vegetable shop is that as the end of the week draws to a close, all your favourites are eaten and you are left with vegetables you might have purchased on a whim, or had no specific plans for. I have been thinking about this Fennel for a day or two and wanted to try something different.

So I looked up Pinterest to find some inspiration – the first picture that popped up was a Fennel, Celery and Apple Salad.

That caught my eye and the combination sounded lovely, so I thought I would try those three ingredients with one of my favourite salad dressings. All three ingredients are such clean, crisp flavours and the Flax Oil dressing has a lovely creaminess to it. The blend of salad and dressing was amazing. I was actually thinking the quantity would be enough for me to have for lunch tomorrow but I could not stop – I ate the lot. This salad was truly delicious and as I was eating it I was thinking that it would be a perfect salad for the Christmas table.

Ingredients (serves 2)

1 bulb Fennel - trim stalks and cut base off
4 Sticks Celery
3 Granny Smith Apples
DRESSING
8 Tablespoons Flax Seed Oil
4 Tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar
2 Tablespoons Peanut Butter
2 Teaspoons Hot Mustard
4 Tablespoons Maple Syrup

Method

Julienne all vegetables and put them in the bowl.
Blend all ingredients with a hand held mixer. Pour over the dressing and combine well.

11 Comments

- - mom81879 said
  - 22 Feb 2020
    7:37 am
Oh yum! So fresh and crispy. A tip, don’t buy on a whim, use a shopping list. Then you’re not left with ingredients just sitting going rotten at the end of the week

- - mom112023 said
  - 11 May 2019
    9:42 am
Thanks for the recipe. I’ve never used Fennel so will be something new for me.

- - mom94125 said
  - 19 Oct 2017
    11:15 pm
this would be great for christmas. I agree with you. This is interesting with the apples as an ingredient. thanks for posting this great idea.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 31 Oct 2016
    10:11 am
Sounds great Lara – I haven’t used fennel much, this would make a great addition to our Chrissy table.

- - mom134803 said
  - 18 Aug 2016
    11:57 am
I love the combi of celery fennel and apple ! In fact I made many years ago always a salad with celery, apple, fennel, red pepper, onion, garlic, nuts and raisons. I’m not a fan of dressings but love just to spice it with hymalian sea salt, black pepper and curry powder. It stayed long well in the fridge.

- - mom184488 said
  - 24 Jun 2016
    2:39 pm
Love it, thanks for sharing.

- - damish70 said
  - 31 May 2016
    10:33 am
I often wonder what to do with fennel & this salad look fresh & tasty. Thank you

- - sharna_booth_weinrowski said
  - 29 May 2016
    10:44 am
What a simple fresh flavour salad thank you for sharing

- - mggarner said
  - 31 Mar 2016
    10:58 pm
I do like the sound of that dressing
- kjgarner replied
  
  29 Apr 2016 , 11:41 pm
  Lots of great ingredients
- - curlytops said
  - 27 Mar 2016
    8:48 pm
I love fennel and this looks like my kind of salad – yum!