Healthy Holidays
Week Two Advanced Prep

We are so excited to cook with you and talk about healthy holiday side dishes.  We’ll be cooking Roasted Celery Root and Red Onion with Walnuts, Pomegranate and Yogurt Drizzle, Green Beans with Cashews, Orange, Chili and Mint and Persimmon, Greens, Feta with Lemon Dressing.

To make the most of our time together, there are a few things you will need to do in advance of the class, so please read closely:

• Preheat the oven to 450 

• Ensure that you have all of the ingredients listed for the recipe

• Ensure that you have all the equipment needed on the equipment list

• Measure and prepare your ingredients in advance 

• This is a VERY important step to make things run as smoothly as possible.  Here is a link to a nice video explaining how to prepare your space before cooking: 

  • Simple video (1 min) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2QRgNAdzc

• If you want to get a headstart you can view this video on basic knife skills, some of which we will go over in class.

  • https://stellaculinary.com/cooking-videos/culinary-knife-skills

Equipment - List

Chef’s knife
Cutting board
Measuring spoons
Liquid measuring cup
Dry measuring cups
Large skillet with lid
Rimmed baking sheet
2 small bowls
Whisk
Large bowl
Vegetable peeler or paring knife

Ingredients - List

Produce:

• 2 Meyer lemon or regular lemon

• 1 shallot

• Fresh thyme

• 12 cups assorted greens (watercress, baby arugula, baby spinach , Frisse, or Boston lettuce or left over endive)

• 1 radicchio

• 2 soft and ripe Fuyu persimmons 

• 1 small fennel bulb

• 1.5 lbs green beans

• 1 fresno chili or red pepper flakes

• ¾ cup orange juice (fresh or bottled)

• Small bunch mint

• 2 medium celery roots (2 lbs total)

• 2 red onions

• ½ bunch parsley 

• ¼ cup Pomegranate seeds
  

Pantry: 

• Extra-virgin olive oil 

• Kosher salt (alternative - sea salt or iodized salt) and cracked black pepper

• Honey

• ½ cup lightly salted cashews

• ¼ cup toasted walnuts

Other:

• ¼ cup plain non-fat yogurt (either Greek or regular)

• 3 oz feta cheese

To do ahead:

• Measure all ingredients and prepare your work surface as described in the video : https://www

• .youtube.com/watch?v=ll2QRgNAdzc

For the Celery Root - have all the ingredients measured and prepped, we will do celery root and onion together. 

For the Green Beans-  all the ingredients measured and prepped.

For the Salad -  have all the ingredients measured and prepped, we will do the persimmon and fennel together.