Slicing Celery for Apple Rice Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Rich Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make an apple crisp rice salad. Now that we have our rice on, we can start prepping our salad. We'll start by slicing up our celery stalk. First, make sure you wash your celery really good. I'm just going to take off the top piece. What I like to do is I'll just slice it in half, the length of the celery, because we're just going to make thin slices and very thinly. This is where you just take your time. Just nice thin slices. Straight through. What I like to do is just push my finger back just a bit having the blade rest on my finger and slice down. You'll slice these really, really fine. You just want it to be as thin as possible. Just take your time. It'll take about a couple minutes. Put on some music, get up a little early before work and have this all prepped. If you want to do that, do everything except the apples. Leave that for last. You can have everything all ready so when you come home you have your salad all ready for yourself. You'll never be late for work if you do that. We've got them sliced really thin. I'm just going to add it to our cup to make sure. I eyeball it and I'm pretty close. I'd that's a cup. We're just going to add that right to the bowl. What we're going to do now is we're going to start to chop up our apples. Unless of course, you want to make this before hand. Do everything I do except chop the apples, and do that later on when you're just about to serve. Come back. We're making it here on Expert Village. Crisp apple rice salad."