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Salad of spiced chickpeas and celeriac

Australian Gourmet Traveller and Phillip Searle vegetarian entree recipe for salad of spiced chickpeas and celeriac
Salad of spiced chickpeas and celeriac

Salad of spiced chickpeas and celeriac

Con Poulos
8
10M

You will need to begin this recipe 1 day ahead.

Ingredients

Salad
Salsa
Hummus
Ubiquitous dressing

Method

Main

1.Preheat oven to 200C. Place chickpeas in an ovenproof pot, cover with 2cm of cold water and add 1 tsp salt and asafoetida. Bring to the boil, skim froth, cover and cook in oven for 2½ hours or until tender, topping up with extra water if necessary. Drain, reserving cooking liquid.
2.Rub celeriac with sambal and tahini. Place in a small pan and add 100ml reserved chickpea liquid. Cover with a tight-fitting lid and roast for 2-2½ hours or until tender, adding extra liquid if necessary (level should be 5mm from the bottom). Drain pan juices into a small saucepan and set aside. Cool celeriac to room temperature.
3.For salsa, finely dice onion, tomato and chilli and combine with coriander.
4.For hummus, cook chickpeas as directed in step 1. Cool to room temperature and process in a food processor with garlic until smooth. Season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add tahini, process, then add lemon juice and process to combine, thinning with a little reserved liquid if necessary.
5.Heat reserved celeriac liquid over low heat, add a heaped tablespoon of hummus and whisk together to a sauce consistency. Season to taste with lemon juice, tamarind water and/or fish sauce, if necessary. Keep warm. Makes 2 cups.
6.Halve celeriac lengthways and lay each half flat. Cutting lengthways, remove 3cm from each side and finely dice. Place diced celeriac in a large bowl with chickpeas and two-thirds of the salsa, drizzle with a little ‘ubiquitous dressing’ and toss. Thinly slice remaining celeriac lengthways. Place a tbsp of hummus on each plate, top with salad and arrange celeriac slices, overlapping slightly, around salad. Drizzle with remaining ‘ubiquitous dressing’ and scatter with remaining salsa.
7.For the ubiquitous dressing, combine all ingredients except lime juice and fish sauce in a mortar and, using a pestle, pound to a paste, season with lime juice and fish sauce and stir well. The flavour should be sweet, sour, hot and salty. Makes about 120ml.

Note Phillip Searle makes his own sambal using peanuts, sesame seeds, tamarind, onion and garlic. Also available from Asian or Indian grocery stores.

Drink Suggestion: Rhône white. Drink suggestion by Max Allen

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