Celery Salad

Stalks of celery - food is useful, high in vitamins, and at the same time low-calorie. One hundred grams of celery contain only 12 calories. Sometimes celery is spoken of as a product with a negative calorie content. This means that the absorption and digestion of celery consumes more energy than the body receives from it. This is what makes celery so popular among a slimming audience.

In food, all parts of celery are suitable : the root is most often consumed in baked form or boiled, the leaves are used as a seasoning, and the stems are stewed with vegetables or make a salad of celery.

It is also believed that celery has a rejuvenating, strengthening effect on the body. It leads to muscle tone, calms the nerves, increases efficiency. In addition, there is an opinion that celery slows down aging. Well, we must not forget that celery helps to cleanse the body. There is even a special cleansing diet for celery.

That is why the recipes for salads with a celery stalk are so popular. About them and will be discussed in this article. Celery in salads combine with various products. Especially popular are fruits and vegetables, sometimes poultry. That is, foods that are also considered high-calorie.

A very simple and tasty celery salad is made using chicken, bell pepper, tomato and cucumber. As a dressing, you can take mayonnaise or vegetable oil (which you like more). However, from the point of view of the benefits to the figure and health, it is better to use still vegetable oil. The chicken must be boiled beforehand. Then all the ingredients are crushed and mixed in equal parts.

As already mentioned, celery in salads is often combined with fruits. The next celery salad is just from this series. To prepare this dish you need celery, pineapple, apple and walnuts, and for the sauce you need an egg, sour cream, soy sauce and olive oil.

Fruits and celery are cut into small pieces, and nuts are crushed in a blender or with a mortar. Do not rub the nuts into flour, just crush them slightly. Now about the sauce: you need to beat the sour cream with egg, add butter, soy sauce and mix until smooth. Sour cream, sauce and butter take about in equal quantities. All ingredients are filled with sauce and mixed.

Very delicious and useful is a celery salad with chicken and apple. A special originality of this salad is attached to the fact that it is puffed. For him it is necessary to take one package of celery, chicken fillet 500 g, 2-3 medium sweet and sour apples, juice of half a lemon and mayonnaise. You need to boil the chicken. Although you can take a grilled chicken. The stalk of celery should be cut as far as possible and put on the bottom of a bowl. The next layer is laid chicken cut into small pieces. Then the apples are peeled and cored and cut into thin slices. Sliced apples are placed on top of the chicken. Salad from above is poured with juice of a lemon, and from above all is poured by mayonnaise. If the skin of apples is not too thick, it can not be cleaned.

At last one more recipe, this time a salad of celery and carrots. You need to take 50 grams of celery and carrots, green onions and parsley. Celery and carrots are rubbed on the grater, the greens are finely chopped. Everything is mixed and poured with vegetable oil.

In conclusion, I want to write that celery is also the strongest aphrodisiac. And in addition, it is used to prevent prostatitis. So celery is useful for both women and men. But there are celery and contraindications: it is not advisable to consume dishes from this vegetable to those who suffer from a stomach ulcer. Also, do not use celery for pregnant women and women during lactation. Another category of people who are contraindicated in celery are patients with varicose veins.