Celery is an extremely healthy plant. It helps the elderly, doctors recommend it for neurosis, obesity, it has anti-inflammatory, enveloping, diuretic effect. It is used in dermatology, cosmetics - lotions are made from it, using fresh juice, broth, and infusion of seeds.
Succulent plant without waste. Everything is useful in it - from the root to the apex. It contains a whole storehouse of substances necessary for the human body: oxalic acid, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, carotene, almost all vitamins. Knowing how to use celery helps to rejuvenate, normalize impaired metabolism, improve digestion, strengthen the body.
This plant can be eaten both fresh and stewed, fried, boiled, baked. Most clearly, apples, carrots set off its taste, and butter gives the celery stewed in the form of mashed potatoes an amazing taste.
Many are interested in how to cook celery root. A wonderful, perfectly tonic drink is obtained if you add a tablespoon of celery root crushed on a grater into tomato juice , as well as several ice cubes.
The specific taste, as well as the unique aroma contributes to the creation of a wonderful seasoning for stuffed dishes and soups. There are many different options for making celery. It can be added to fatty soups, pickles, used for canning tomatoes. Great tastes are obtained from potatoes, cabbage, eggplant, beans - the plant will give these dishes an exquisite astringency, because all its parts contain volatile essential oils.
Fleshy juicy stems of the plant are prepared similarly to other, traditional vegetables: boiled, stewed, used for salads fresh. The rolls are very tasty. To prepare them, you need to wrap slices of cheese with green stalks in slices of ham, then bake in the oven for several minutes.
This plant gained the greatest popularity thanks to the chef of the famous New York Hotel Astoria, who invented the Waldorf salad.
If you are interested in how to cook celery for this salad, take the tuber of the plant, rinse it thoroughly with running water, peel, cut into thin strips. We will tell novice cooks that since a fresh plant has a sharp taste, it is necessary to rinse the resulting straw with boiling water or pour boiling water into it, keeping it in it for a couple of minutes. After that, take hard apples, chop them with the same straw. Put all the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, add peeled walnuts. Mix all the ingredients, dress the salad with mayonnaise.
If you have to set the festive table, which will bring together real gourmets who are able to appreciate the culinary skills, as well as the dishes of the hostess, make a different version of the salad. How to cook celery for this, so that it has a noble delicate taste? First, do everything according to a traditional recipe: cut the ingredients into strips, add walnuts to them. And at the very end, instead of mayonnaise, season the dish with whipped cream. But before you mix the ingredients, add to them still diced bananas. To give the dish a truly festive, sophisticated look, the salad is served not in the salad bowl, but placed in halves of apples, after having removed the core with the pulp.
Finally, a few more recipes on how to cook celery. An unusual, tasty combination gets a mixture of cottage cheese and celery. Also, an interesting dish will turn out if you mix it with cucumber, bell pepper and season with unsweetened yogurt.