Paleo Carbonara With Celeriac

🧂 Ingredients

• 1/2 cup raw cashew nuts
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil

  or olive oil
• 1 medium onion

  finely diced
• 6 rashers bacon

  diced into small cubes
• 2 cloves of garlic

  finely diced
• 0.5 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon butter

  or ghee, extra olive oil
• 1 large celeriac

  peeled and spiralized into ribbons (see pics and notes above)
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
• 2 tbsp chopped parsley to serve

Instructions

• 1 Add the cashew nuts to a bowl and cover with warm water. Allow to soak for 15-20
  minutes.
• 2 Preheat the oven to 200 C / 400 F.
• 3 In a large frying pan, heat a tablespoon of olive oil or coconut oil over
  medium-high heat. Add the bacon and pan-fry for 3 minutes, stirring a few times.
• 4 Add the onion to the bacon and pan-fry together, stirring a few times, for 5
  minutes. Once softened, add the garlic, salt, pepper and butter (or ghee) and
  stir through for 20 more seconds.
• 5 While the bacon and onions are cooking, prepare the celeriac. Cut off the hard
  ends from the celeriac root and peel the sides. Depending on the type of
  vegetable spiralizer you use, you might need to cut the celeriac in two halves
  as it can be a little difficult to spiralize the whole root at once. I cut mine
  in two halves and trimmed the ends so their are flat. Spiralize each half into
  noodle ribbons and set aside. See cook's notes for more on how to spiralize it.
• 6 Transfer the celeriac noodles and the cooked bacon and onions mixture to a large
  mixing bowl.
• 7 Strain the cashews and add to a blender or a food processor together with the
  eggs (whites and yolks), almond milk and nutritional yeast flakes. Add another
  pinch of salt and process for 30 seconds until smooth (it’s okay if some of the
  cashews are not completely pulverised, adds a bit of texture).
• 8 Pour the egg mixture over the celeriac noodles. Using your hands, mix everything
  together working the sauce through the noodles. Transfer to a round or square
  casserole dish and place in the oven, middle shelf for 12 minutes.
• 9 Once you remove the casserole dish, the celeriac should be crisped up and golden
  brown on the top. The egg mixture would have cooked firmer around the edges of
  the dish and on the bottom, yet will still be a little creamy in the middle.
  Serve with chopped up parsley on the side.

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