Cheesy Celeriac Souffle And Citrus Salad: Thomasina Miers’ Recipes To Brighten A Dark Winter’s Day

There is simply a accomplishment successful not wasting nutrient and it’s each astir good, old-fashioned housekeeping. If you study really to shop ingredients decently (cool, acheronian places are useful for spuds, for example) and support tabs connected what’s successful your fridge/freezer, you tin usage everything up earlier it goes disconnected – and make delicious things successful nan process. This golden, cheese-crusted souffle uses up nan celeriac and spuds near aft nan festive season, positive immoderate likelihood and ends of cheeses. It is spectacularly good, particularly paired pinch a sparkling citrus salad.

Celeriac, bulb and food souffle (pictured top)

Sweet onions, soft roots and tons of food emergence into a light, aureate souffle pinch nary of nan fuss of making a bechamel. Bliss!

Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr 30 min
Serves 4-6

300g celeriac
200g floury potatoes
Salt
45g butter, plus other for greasing
1 ample reddish onion, peeled and finely diced
1 mini fistful caller thyme leaves
1-2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely grated
200g double cream
100g greek yoghurt, aliases soured cream
250g grated cheese – I usage a operation of blueand cheddar
Grated nutmeg
7 eggs, separated

Peel nan celeriac and potatoes, past trim them into bite-sized chunks. Put them successful a cookware filled pinch 7½cm-10cm salted boiling water, past navigator connected a precocious power for 18-20 minutes, until tender. (Alternatively, if you person leftover cooked potatoes aliases celeriac, this crockery is simply a beautiful measurement of utilizing them up.)

Meanwhile, melt nan food successful a pan, adhd nan bulb and play generously pinch salt, capsicum and nan thyme. Sweat, stirring, connected a mean power for 10 minutes, past adhd nan garlic.

Drain nan roots, past astir mash them successful nan cookware group complete a debased heat. Add nan the pick and yoghurt, past mash again. Add three-quarters of nan grated food and power gently, stirring well, for a fewer minutes. Stir successful nan softened bulb substance and play to sensation pinch much brackish and pepper, positive a fewer generous gratings of nutmeg.

Heat nan oven to 210C (190C fan)/410F/gas 6½, past hit nan ovum yolks into nan vegetables. In a large, very cleanable bowl, whisk nan ovum whites until stiff and immovable, then, utilizing a ample metallic spoon, mildly fold a 3rd of them into nan guidelines mash. Fold nan veg operation into nan remaining ovum whites, taking attraction not to hit retired nan air.

Pour nan substance into a large, buttered ovenproof ceramic alloy and cook successful nan centre of nan oven for 40-45 minutes; if nan apical is threatening to brownish excessively overmuch aft 30 minutes, move down nan power to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6. Once nan souffle has risen and is smelling glorious, service astatine erstwhile pinch nan citrus crockery below.

Honeyed citrus, rocket and pomegranate salad

A refreshing, beautifully coloured crockery pinch contrasting bursts of sweetness from nan citrus, chromatic and peppery leaves.

Thomasina Miers’ honeyed citrus, rocket and pomegranate salad

Prep 25 min
Serves 4

1 humor orange
1 pinkish grapefruit
½ reddish onion, peeled and finely diced
100g rocket, washed
2 heads chicory, preferably pink
1 mini pomegranate
50g sunflower seeds, toasted

For nan dressing
1 heaped tsp honey
1 tbsp good-quality cider vinegar
1 heaped tsp dijon mustard
75ml oliva oil

Cut nan tops and bottoms disconnected nan citrus fruits, past trim distant nan tegument and achromatic pith. Cut nan citrus into rounds and trim each information successful half, collecting immoderate juices successful a mini vessel arsenic you go; compression nan juice retired of nan skins, too, and adhd to nan bowl.

Whisk nan honey, cider vinegar, mustard and lipid into nan vessel of citrus juice, past play generously and operation successful nan chopped reddish onion.

Take nan seeds retired of nan pomegranate (discard nan tegument and pith), and adhd immoderate pomegranate juice that escapes to nan dressing.

Wash and barren nan crockery leaves, past put them connected a ample platter aliases successful a bowl. Top pinch nan sliced citrus, half nan pomegranate seeds (save nan remainder for meal nan adjacent day) and nan sunflower seeds, past move complete nan dressing and flip mildly to coat. Serve alongside nan celeriac souffle.