How to Cook Celeriac

Wonderful comfort food! An onion-flavoured root that turns into a great mash or bake. You cook celeriac as you would any of the popular root vegetables, roast them, mash them, simmer in a stew or blend them for soups. Here’s a celeriac from my garden

But let’s make a tasty celeriac dish. Simple and comforting.

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Celeriac and Potato Gratin

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour

Ingredients

• 1 celeriac
• 5 medium potatoes
• 50 g butter
• 1 and 1/2 cups cheese sauce

Instructions

• Cut the skin off the celeriac. Chop into quarters. Thinly slice.
• Peel and slice the potatoes as thinly as you can. Put the sliced vegetables into a bowl of cold water to stop them from discolouring
• Rub some butter around the bottom and sides of the baking dish
• Layer the bottom of the dish with a mix of potato and celeriac slices. Pour some cheese sauce over
• Repeat the process with another layer of sliced vegetables and cheese sauce until the dish is full
• Put the dish in the middle of a preheated warm to medium high oven for about an hour. The gratin should be browned on top and cooked all the way through - test with a small knife

As for the sauce – How to Make Cheese Sauce

How to cut a celeriac.