Beautiful Deconstructed Waldorf Salad with Ambrosia Apples Recipe

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🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: sour cream

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds provide similar crunch and flavor.

Finely dice a shallot.

Infuse champagne vinegar or cider vinegar with fresh tarragon to make tarragon vinegar.

Add a little salt and drizzle in olive oil, maintaining a 3 to 1 ratio of oil to vinegar.

Check the vinaigrette for seasoning.

Slice about half a cup of celery and a quarter cup of celery root using a mandolin or knife.

Toss the celery and celery root in a little vinaigrette or lemon juice to prevent oxidation.

Cut ambrosia apples into matchsticks, dice, and make wafer-thin slices for visual appeal, using about half a cup of apple per person.

Prepare aioli by whisking egg yolks, olive oil, and mustard.

Plate the aioli separately for people to dress their own salad.

Toss the ambrosia apples in vinaigrette, ensuring they are well coated.

Toss the celery and celery root in the same vinaigrette, adding about a teaspoon.

Toss salad greens in vinaigrette as well.

Slice ham thinly and scatter around the plate.

Scatter toasted walnuts, which have been toasted in olive oil and seasoned with sea salt, on the plate.

Garnish with fresh parsley and drizzle with additional vinaigrette before serving.

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