Fennel-Celery Salad

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 to 6 servings
  • Total: 20 min
  • Active: 10 min
You don’t need a lot of ingredients for a beautiful salad. You don’t even need lettuce! This salad combines crisp thinly-sliced vegetables for the base and uses jarred olive tapenade as a shortcut to a very flavorful dressing.
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Ingredients

1 large fennel bulb, thinly sliced, plus 1/4 cup chopped fennel fronds

6 large celery stalks with leaves, thinly sliced

1/2 cup green olive tapenade

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions

  1. Combine the sliced fennel and celery in a bowl. Add the tapenade, fennel fronds, vinegar, olive oil, a pinch of salt and a generous grinding of pepper. Toss well, then let stand at least 10 minutes.

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Anonymous

This was popular at our Thanksgiving dinner. My husband didn’t find the green olive tapenade and got a mixed olive one, maybe that’s what made the difference? Also, we are fennel lovers. I had to search the recipe up again since one guest was still inquiring after it.

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