Apple Celery Salad

The South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors met up again at the South Arm Community Centre for the last time as the community kitchen will be moved to another location for 2 months while South Arm kitchen under goes renovation. We cant wait to see what’s install.

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The first dish is a simple Apple Celery Salad. This salad is cinnamony and crunchy. A good start to whip up the appetite.

Celery has low calorie and rich in dietary fibre. Hence, it’s often used in weight loss diets.

Ingredients

Yogurt Dressing

  • 1 cup low fat plain yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Salad

  • 3 medium apples (Mcintosh)
  • 1 cup thinly sliced celery
  • 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
  • 4 leaves of romaine or iceberg lettuce as serving bowl, optional

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serves 4

Instructions

Apple-Celery-Salad-4Combine the ingredients for the yogurt dressing in a large bowl and mix well. The recipe makes about 1 cup.
Apple-Celery-Salad-2Wash the apples. Remove core and chop apples into small chunks, leave the peel on.
Apple-Celery-Salad-3Toss chopped apples immediately into dressing to prevent the apples from browning.
Apple-Celery-Salad-6Add chopped celeries and walnuts. Stir to coat well with dressing. Refrigerate the salad until ready to serve.

Place lettuce leaf on each plate and spoon apple mixture onto each leaf to serve. Served chilled.

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. Doris Jung

    Hi, Suanne:

    Thanks for this simple, fresh looking recipe. The yogurt dressings looks very easy to make. Looks like a tasty and healthy treat.

    Cheers,
    Doris

  2. Douglas Pennington

    It’s a Waldorf salad.

    1. Ben

      Hi Douglas: Hey you are right it is called Waldorf salad. I checked wikipedia and lo and behold, the ingredients are the same. Ben

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