Why I’m wild about Waldorf salad

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Makes: Serves four as a generous side salad

Takes: 5 minutes

Bakes: No time at all

A small bunch of grapes (about 100g)

1 crisp eating apple

4 ribs celery

75g Walnuts

½ tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

3 tablespoons mayonnaise

  1. Put the walnuts in a pan and heat until just toasted: as soon as you can smell them they are ready. Immediately transfer to a chopping board, and roughly chop.
  2. Cut the celery into ½ inch slices, and halve the grapes. Remove the core from the apple, and slice as thingly as you can.
  3. Combine the lemon juice, oil, and mayonnaise, along with a generous grinding of black pepper and salt to season. Toss the celery, grapes, apple and walnuts in the mayonnaise, spoon into a bowl, and serve.

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