Celery is not such a frequent visitor on our table, but in vain!
This product can become dear to good health and a beautiful figure.
If not everyone likes the taste of fresh vegetables, then very few people will refuse the most delicate mashed potatoes or cream soup.
And hardly anyone can guess that the dish is made from celery.
Celery puree - general principles of cooking
For cream soups and vegetable puree, you can use celery stalks or rhizomes. The taste of the heads and the roots is slightly different. Someone likes stalks more, and someone recognizes dishes from root crops.
Celery stalks do not require cleaning, they simply rinse. Cut them transverse rings. Rhizomes before use are peeled, like potatoes, and then cut. The shape and size can be any.
Boil the vegetable in water, broth or milk. Add standard spices: pepper, salt, paprika, aromatic spices. But dishes from one ingredient are rarely prepared.
What else is added in mashed potatoes:
• vegetables, including melons;
• mushrooms;
• meat;
• fish and seafood;
• bird;
• cheeses, dairy products.
Decorate mashed potatoes with greens. To taste it add oil, most often creamy. Cream soups served with cream, crackers. Sometimes supplemented with pieces of meat, chicken, fried mushrooms.
Recipe 1: Celery Puree with Potatoes and Milk
For such mashed celery need root. The dish can be used as a side dish for poultry, fish, meat or on its own.
Ingredients
• 600 ml of milk;
• 2 large celery roots;
• 1 potato;
• 1 small onion;
• 40 grams of oil;
• 400 ml of water;
• spices, greens.
Cooking
1. We wash the roots and clean the skin. Cut the celery and potato slices.
2. Combine the milk with water, send to the stove and bring to a boil. 3. Add cooked root vegetables and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Now add salt, cook about 15 more minutes until the vegetables are completely soft.
5. While you can cook onions. To do this, clean the head and fry until golden brown with butter.
6. Merge the decoction from cooked vegetables with a colander. But it is not necessary to pour it, we will bring the puree to the desired consistency.
7. Puree vegetables. Then add the fried onions. If you do not like the pieces, then it can also be mastered with a blender.
8. We estimate a consistence and if necessary we add milk broth. It should be borne in mind that the mass will become thicker. We taste and season with spices.
Recipe 2: Celery Soup with Chicken
For the useful celery puree soup we will use the stems. The recipe is chicken breast, but you can also take trim from the thigh, it will be even more tender.
Ingredients
• 0.5 chicken breast;
• 4 celery stalks;
• 2 potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 200 ml of cream;
• 40 grams of oil;
• salt pepper;
• 1 carrot.
Cooking
1. Wash the breast and cut into small pieces. Form does not matter. Boil ten minutes, more of it. Water pour a little more than a liter.
2. Cut the peeled potatoes in small slices, send to the chicken and cook for about ten minutes.
3. Add the washed and cut pieces of celery stalks.
4. Pass the chopped onions and grated carrots in butter. Fry the vegetables until rosy color.
5. As soon as the potatoes and celery are cooked, pour out some liquid from them, but not all of them. Add fried vegetables and mash everything together.
6. Gradually introduce cream. We estimate the thickness of the soup and dilute the previously merged broth.
7. Salt and ship to the stove again. We warm up almost to a boil and immediately turn off the fire.
8. We pepper, decorate with greens and fragrant soup is ready.
Recipe 3: Dessert Celery Puree with Apple
A variant of an unusual dessert in the form of mashed celery. It can be served in bowls and there is a spoon. Or make a little thinner consistency and serve as a cocktail. Celery is used to stem. Ingredients
• 4 celery stalks;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 2 apples;
• 150 ml of water;
• sugar;
• ice cubes.
Cooking
1. Wash celery stalks. If they are damaged, then immediately removed. Cut into pieces and lay in the capacity of the blender.
2. We wash the apples, remove the peel from the fruit and also cut into slices, bypassing the stub with seeds. Sent to a celery container.
3. Squeeze the juice from the half of the lemon to them, whip until pureed.
4. We enter water, but not all. Approximately 2/3 and add sugar to taste. Whisk. Instead of sugar, mashed potatoes can be filled with honey or a substitute.
5. We evaluate the consistency. If you are preparing a drink, you can add more water.
6. Arrange in portions, decorate with a slice of lemon.
Recipe 4: Celery Soup with Pumpkin “Golden”
Recipe for a bright and cheerful soup of mashed celery, which has a delicate texture and a very pleasant taste. From these products you get two large portions. Celery is used to stem.
Ingredients
• 100 grams of celery stalks;
• 200 grams of pumpkin;
• 150 grams of potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 small onion;
• 1 liter of water;
• seasonings, a little butter.
Cooking
1. Cut into cubes potatoes and set to cook in prescription fluid. Instead of water, you can use any broth.
2. Cut or rub the peeled carrots, chop the onion finely, shift them to the potatoes and cook.
3. Cut the pumpkin into cubes and lightly fry in butter, send everything to the pan.
4. Celery stalks are chopped with ringlets and put into the soup. Cover with a lid and cook all vegetables until soft. If something is cooked a little earlier - do not worry. At the end of the dish must be salted.
5. Remove the pan from the heat, remove the lid, and cool the soup a little.
6. Puree blender, if necessary, add spices. Pour into plates. Serve golden soup is recommended with sour cream.
Recipe 5: Celery Puree with Zucchini
For the preparation of this diet puree with celery will need a root vegetable. Squash use young, you can replace the squash.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg zucchini;
• 0.4 kg celery roots;
• 30 ml rast. oils;
• salt;
• greenery;
• 1 tsp. paprika;
• 1 carrot.
Cooking
• We clean the carrot, cut into circles and throw into the pan.
• Add the peeled and also chopped celery, set to cook until half cooked.
• While we are engaged in zucchini. They need to be washed, remove the tips on both sides and cut into cubes. If the skin is thick, it is better to remove. The same goes for seeds.
• Add zucchini to the rest of the vegetables and cook until the end. Usually it takes no more than 15 minutes, do not forget to salt the dish.
• Drain excess water, add vegetable oil, paprika and stir. When serving, sprinkle with chopped greens.
Recipe 6: Soup of celery with mushrooms
Fresh cep mushrooms will be used for this celery soup. Do not boil mushrooms beforehand.
Ingredients
• 5 celery stalks;
• 2 potatoes;
• 0.2 kg of champignons;
• 30 grams of butter;
• 1 onion;
• 100 ml of cream;
• spices, a few sprigs of parsley.
Cooking
1. Cut champignons into thin slices and onion into cubes.
2. Put the butter in the pan, add the onion and fry until transparent.
3. We spread mushrooms to it, cover and stew for about ten minutes, then fry everything together to a beautiful and ruddy color.
4. Finely chop the potatoes and cook for five minutes in a liter of water.
5. Add the celery, cut into circles.
6. Boil the soup for about five minutes, and put the fried mushrooms in it, but not all. Leave a spoon for decor.
7. Cook the soup until the vegetables are soft, a few minutes until salted.
8. Pure with an immersion blender, dilute with cream and warm again. 9. Pour into the plates, decorate with shelled mushrooms and parsley leaves.
Recipe 7: Celery and Cauliflower Puree
The option is very lush and delicious mashed celery, which will need cauliflower. Celery is used root.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of celery;
• 400 grams of cauliflower;
• 100 grams of carrots;
• salt;
• 200 ml of milk;
• 70 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Peel celery roots, cut into slices and transfer to a saucepan.
2. Disassemble cauliflower into inflorescences, add to celery.
3. Cut the carrot randomly and also toss it over the vegetables.
4. Fill water with vegetables. You can immediately use boiling water to reduce the time.
5. Cook to full softness. Toward the end of the preparation you need salt.
6. In a saucepan, boil milk with butter, turn it off.
7. Drain the broth from the vegetables, purée and gradually introduce hot milk. Adjust the thickness of the dish, taste it.
8. Fill with pepper and garnish ready!
Recipe 8: Celery Soup with Cheese and Crackers
For the preparation of this wonderful soup is used celery root. Ginger is also added. It makes the dish unusual and very fragrant. For the submission of this soup will need crackers, better homemade.
Ingredients
• 1 celery root;
• 600 ml of broth;
• 1 spoon of ginger root;
• 1 scoop of ghee;
• 1 melted cheese;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• salt;
• Dill sprigs;
• bread for crackers.
Cooking
1. Finely chop the onion head and fry to a ruddy color, transfer it to the saucepan.
2. Add shredded carrots to the same place.
3. Clear the celery root and cut into small cubes. Throw in the soup.
4. Put crushed ginger. You can take a little less than indicated in the recipe.
5. Pour all the broth and put on the stove to cook. Cooking with a slow boil.
6. As soon as the vegetables are soft, add the crushed processed cheese and salt to them. Keep on the stove a minute, remove. 7. Give the soup a little cool and puree. That's it!
8. For crackers, cut white bread into cubes, fry in a skillet. You can cook without oil and with its addition.
9. Pour the soup, sprinkle with croutons, decorate with dill.
Celery Puree - Useful Tips and Tricks
• Celery puree will be bright and beautiful if you add paprika, turmeric, curry. For the children's table, you can make an unusual puree of pink color by adding a piece of beet or a little juice to the pan when cooking.
• It is not always possible to make mashed potatoes of a suitable consistency. But we must remember that if it contains a lot of butter or contains potatoes, then the dish will become thicker as it cools.
• Celery root changes color in the air and may darken. To avoid this, do not pre-clean the product from the skin. And if this has already been done, then you can simply pour the pulp with lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.
• Despite the many beneficial properties, not everyone can eat celery. With care, it can be eaten by women during pregnancy and during breastfeeding. Also not recommended is the use of this product to people who suffer from epilepsy.
