Refined: apple salad with celery, raisins, and pine nuts, a sweet and sour salad that is easy and quick, a healthy recipe that will win you over immediately. A no-cook recipe that is ready in just 15 minutes! The time to peel the apples, soak the raisins, squeeze the lemon with oil and your salad will be almost ready.
Today we are not using apples in the usual grandma’s apple pie or in the apple and pine nut bundles, today with this fruit we make a nice and healthy salad.
All the best in a salad: the apple has very few calories and sugars, celery is rich in fiber, raisins are rich in potassium, and pine nuts are an excellent source of vitamins, so how can you not appreciate it? I loved it right away! I tasted it for the first time this year during a vacation in Trentino, and I managed to get the exact recipe and happily replicated it.
Let’s see together how to prepare this delicious apple and celery salad, follow me in the kitchen and let me know.
TRY ALSO:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very affordable
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 185.83 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 23.32 (g) of which sugars 19.42 (g)
- Proteins 1.77 (g)
- Fat 10.22 (g) of which saturated 1.07 (g)of which unsaturated 8.16 (g)
- Fibers 3.61 (g)
- Sodium 497.48 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 140 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 2 apples
- 3 stalks celery
- 2.1 oz raisins
- 1.1 oz pine nuts
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice (1 lemon)
- to taste salt
TOOLS
- Small bowl
- Bowl
- Knife
Recipe
Wash the celery and cut the stalks into pieces.
In a small bowl mix the olive oil with the juice of 1 lemon and a pinch of salt.Peel the apples, remove the core and cut them into small pieces or thin slices, then transfer them to a bowl, add the pieces of celery stalks and the raisins soaked in warm water for 10 minutes and then squeezed.
Immediately season with the oil and lemon sauce (this dressing will prevent the apples from turning dark) and mix.
Once the salad with apples is ready, divide it onto serving plates and before presenting it to your guests, enrich it by sprinkling it with pine nuts. Enjoy your meal!
Storage and Tips
Storage: it keeps in the fridge for 1 day in an airtight container.
Tips: you can replace pine nuts with walnuts. If you like, you can add pepper or a pinch of nutmeg.
Storage: it keeps in the fridge for 1 day in an airtight container.
Tips: you can replace pine nuts with walnuts. If you like, you can add pepper or a pinch of nutmeg.
