How to Make & Serve Tuna Salad : Chop Celery for Tuna Salad
Hi, this is Richard Buccola here in New YorkCity and today on behalf of Expert Village
I'm going to show you how to make some tunasalad. Alright so I'm mixing my vinegar into
my tuna and I'm just going to put that onthe side. I'm going to grab my celery and
just give it a quick rinse, washing off anydirt. Just a quick rinse, clean it off, take
a paper towel off. Celery tastes great; great,great, great, you need celery. You can substitute
onion with scallions sometimes, but I likeonion better. So, if I only had a scallion
I would use that, so I'm going to put thisonion on the side here. First and foremost
you want to take off the tops, the flowerypart of the celery and just discard them,
throw them away. And you want to chop thisup real, real fine, you want to chop it real
fine. So what you want to do is maybe sliceit straight through, even slice it again because
it will chop that much easier and then youare going to get your three pieces. Remember
to keep the fingers in, fingers in and lettingthe knife hit the knuckle so you don't cut
yourself always moving back with the knife.Again, small table, small cutting board where
you just start moving back, cutting, puttingthe point down and bringing the back of the
knife. Now if the pieces are too big, don'tworry about it because this is the way I like
to cut them. What you do is once you get yourbig pieces like this, put your point again
down and just bringing the back of the knifeup and down, more or less using your shoulder
to pick it up and down and chopping them realfine. You put your celery into the middle
and just keep chopping away and before youknow it you will have it real chopped fine.
When I come back I'm going to chop that onion.So you had to eyeball this so that you don't
put too much celery or too much onion intoit.
Discover tips for chopping celery for tuna salad in this free recipe video clip. Expert: Richard Buccola Bio: Richard Buccola is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also the owner of several popular food & spirits establishments in Queens, NY, including the former PJ's Bar & Grill, and The Ivy Room. Filmmaker: Buccola Richard