A Simple Salad of Celery Root and Sausage

Ingredients

• celeriac about 1 pound (500g)
• plump
• garlicky sausages 4
• peanut oil 3 tablespoons
• walnut oil a tablespoon
• lemon juice a tablespoon
• smooth Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons
• flat-leaf parsley a small bunch

Instructions

1. Peel the celery root, dipping it into cold water containing a drop of lemon juice as you go.
2. Cut into pieces a scant 1/8 inch (3mm) thick.
3. Bring to a boil in a pan of deep water, add salt, then cook for seven to ten minutes, until tender when pierced with the tip of a knife.
4. Meanwhile, fry or grill the sausages as you think fit, then cut them into thinnish slices and drop them into a salad bowl.
5. If they crumble, all to the good.
6. Make the dressing with the peanut and walnut oils, lemon juice, and mustard, whisking the ingredients together with a grinding of salt and pepper.
7. Chop the parsley and stir it into the dressing (the parsley is essential here, I think).
8. Drain the celery root.
9. Now toss carefully with the sausage and the dressing.