How to cook celery

Celery is an extremely useful plant with unique healing properties. Unfortunately, many people do not eat it and do not know how to cook. Nevertheless, the spicy aroma and barely perceptible bitterness of the plant can diversify any dish, give it a piquancy and originality.

Celery is sold throughout the year, so you can use it all the time. This product is rich in vitamin C - the most powerful natural antioxidant necessary for our health and longevity. Celery also has anti-inflammatory effects, helps lower blood pressure and remove salt from the body. This plant is very useful for people who have salt deposits in their joints. Celery is a negative calorie food. That is, it helps to burn calories, which is the most important factor in any diet for weight loss.

How to cook celery soup: recipes

Bean soup with celery

Composition:

1. Celery (root) -2 pcs.
2. Leek-2 stalk
3. Beans (white and / or red) -500 g
4. 1 chicken egg
5. Carrots-1 pc.
6. Water-2 l
7. Butter, 35 g
8. Cream (fat) -0.5 Art.
9. White bread-2 pieces
10. Salt and spices to taste

Cooking:

• Beans in the evening, pour cold water. The next day, boil it until tender in 2 liters of lightly salted water.
• Boil peeled carrots and celery root in a separate saucepan until ready.
• Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry the finely chopped leek in it.
• Combine all the vegetables, whisk with a blender or rub through a sieve until smooth.
• Dissolve the puree with broth, in which the vegetables were boiled, to the consistency you need. Pour the soup into a saucepan, simmer on a very slow fire.
• Heat the cream a little, add the egg and whisk together. Carefully add the creamy egg mixture to the soup.
• Add salt, a piece of butter and, as soon as the soup boils, remove it from the stove. Pour the soup into plates, sprinkle with chopped greens. Serve with white bread croutons.

Soup with celery and hard cheese

Composition:

1. Celery (root) -250 g
2. Sour cream-100 g
3. Hard cheese-100 g
4. Water-1 l
5. Egg (yolk) -1 pc.
6. Butter -30 g
7. Bulb onion -1 pc.
8. Wheat flour - 3 tbsp. l
9. Citric acid (or lemon juice) - to taste
10. Salt and spices - to taste
11. Greenery

Cooking:

• Washed and peeled celery root rub on a coarse grater. Celery Peel the onions and cut into small cubes and fry in butter until golden brown. Then add flour and pass another about 10 minutes.
• Transfer the onions to the saucepan, add the celery and mix. Pour in water (1 l), put on a small fire to boil.
• In a separate container, mix the sour cream and egg yolk, whisk until smooth.
• Sour cream and egg mixture gently in the soup, cook until done. 2-3 minutes before the end of cooking, season the soup with lemon juice, salt and spices.
• Before serving, sprinkle the soup with grated cheese and chopped greens.

Smoked Chicken Breast Soup with Celery

Composition:

1. Celery (root and leaves) - 500 g
2. Broth (chicken or vegetable) -1 l
3. Smoked chicken breast - 150-200 g
4. Cream (fatty) -1 tbsp.
5. Butter-2 tbsp. l
6. Salt and spices to taste
7. Greenery

Cooking:

• Peel celery root, wash and chop. Celery shoots are also finely chopped.
• Put everything in a saucepan, cover with broth and cook over medium heat for about 30 minutes.
• Chicken breast disassemble into fibers or cut into thin strips. Fry in butter until crisp.
• Pure boiled celery in a blender (or rub through a sieve) and return to the broth.
• Put the saucepan on a very small fire, pour in the cream, season with salt and spices.
• Bring the soup to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Before serving, put in each plate a little fried chicken, sprinkle with herbs.

Original celery salad recipes

Salad "Waldorf"

Composition:

1. Celery (root) - 250 g
2. Apples - 250 g
3. Walnuts - 100 g
4. Cream (fat) -4 tbsp. l
5. Lemon juice-2 tbsp. l
6. Salt and spices to taste
7. Mayonnaise

Cooking:

• Peel the celery root, wash it and cut it into strips. Boil until half cooked in lightly salted water.
• Peel apples and peel, cut into 2 pieces and remove the core. Cut into slices. Chop the nuts with a knife or in a mortar.
• Make a dressing dressing. Mayonnaise mixed with lemon juice, cream and salt. Mix thoroughly and season with the sauce.
• Combine celery with apples. Dress the salad with sauce, garnish with nuts and herbs. Serve chilled.

Salad with pickled cucumbers

Composition:

1. Celery root - 1 pc.
2. Capers-2 Art. l
3. Pickled cucumbers (small) -6 pcs.
4. Wine vinegar 2 tbsp. l
5. Anchovies (or other salted fish) - to taste
6. Sour cream-5 tbsp. l
7. Olive oil-3 tbsp. l
8. Mustard-1 tbsp. l
9. Salt and spices to taste
10. Greenery

Cooking:

• Peel the celery root and cut into long, thin strips.
• Cucumbers cut into slices, anchovies, diced, chop greens.
• Put everything in a salad bowl, sprinkle with lemon juice and mix.
• Prepare a dressing. Mix sour cream, mustard, olive oil and wine vinegar. Add salt and spices to taste, mix. Season the salad with the sauce, cool and serve.

Salad "Paris"

Composition:

1. Celery (stem) -2 pcs.
2. Apples (sweet and sour varieties) -2 pcs.
3. Lemon juice-1 tbsp. l
4. Salad mayonnaise-4 tbsp. l
5. Hard cheese - 150 g

Cooking:

• Wash apples, remove the rind and core. Cut the fruit into thin straws, fold into a salad bowl and mix with lemon juice.
• Cut celery stalks across thin slices and place them on apples.
• Sprinkle with grated cheese, salt and mayonnaise. Serve the salad chilled.

How to make celery juice?

Juices are made using a juicer. It is not necessary to drink the juice from just one celery, it can be supplemented with other vegetables, as well as put spices in the drink.

Celery juice with honey is good for sleep disorders (including insomnia). In 1 tbsp. celery juice put 1 tsp. honey and mix well. This drink perfectly relaxes and refreshes. In the summer it is pleasant to drink it cold.

The recipe with the addition of carrots will help people with disorders in the nervous and immune systems. This drink will replenish the reserves of potassium in the body, relieve tension, relieve anxiety and depression. Celery juice with carrots is a source of vitamin A, which is good for vision and bone development. Proportion: celery stalks - 2 pcs., Half of sweet apple, 4 carrots.

Juice "Celery and watermelon" has a slight diuretic effect. It will help clear the kidneys and bladder. At 1 tbsp. watermelon juice, take 2 stalks of celery and whisk everything in a blender. Drink a drink is best in the first 30 minutes after preparation.

Drink with orange and celery is useful for people suffering from high blood pressure. To prepare 5 servings you will need: juice 4 oranges, 1 liter of clean filtered or boiled water, 3 celery stalks. Beat the stalks of the plants in a blender with water, then mix with orange juice. Add ice, honey or sugar if desired.

Celery juice with apples will help with increased acidity in the stomach. To prepare 1 serving you will need: 2 small apples, half a large cucumber, 200 ml of water, 1 celery stalk. In a blender, fold the vegetables, pour in the water and mix everything well. Drink immediately after preparation.

Some more useful combinations for juice:

• Celery + asparagus + parsley + pomegranate. The drink helps with various diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs.
• Celery + parsley. Juice will help get rid of high body temperature and prevents diseases of the joints.
• Celery + cucumber. Drink perfectly helps with vitamin A deficiency in the body.
• Celery + grapefruit. The drink has a healing effect in duodenal ulcer and stomach ulcer.
• Celery + lemon + sea buckthorn. The drink perfectly complements the treatment courses for diseases of the thyroid gland.
• Celery + cabbage + parsley. Juice strengthens teeth and bones.

Celery is an excellent product for the body. It helps in losing weight, as well as in the treatment of many diseases. From it you can cook a huge amount of tasty and healthy dishes. Celery root is the basis for soups and side dishes, and from the shoots of the plant you get a wonderful vitamin salad.