How to cook celery

Celery is an extremely useful plant. It helps the elderly, doctors recommend it for neuroses, obesity, it has anti-inflammatory, enveloping, diuretic effect. It is used in dermatology, cosmetics - it makes lotions, using for this fresh juice, broth, infusion of seeds.

Juicy plant is without waste. In it everything is useful - from the root to the top. It contains a whole storehouse of substances necessary to the human body: oxalic acid, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, carotene, almost all vitamins. Knowing how to use celery helps to rejuvenate, normalize the disturbed metabolism, improve digestion, strengthen the body.

This plant can be eaten both fresh and stewed, fried, boiled, baked. Brightest of all, it's the apples, carrots, and the butter gives the stewed puree celery an amazing taste.

Many are interested in how to cook the root of celery. A wonderful, perfectly toning drink is obtained if you add a tablespoon of crushed celery root to the tomato juice , as well as a few ice cubes.

Specific taste, as well as a unique flavor contributes to the creation of a wonderful seasoning for stuffed dishes and soups. There are many different options for how to cook celery. It can be added to fatty soups, pickles, used for canning tomatoes. Magnificent to taste are dishes from potatoes, cabbage, aubergines, beans - the plant will give these dishes exquisite astringency, because all its parts contain volatile essential oils.

The fleshy juicy stems of the plant are prepared similarly to other, traditional vegetables: boiled, stewed, used for salads in fresh form. Rolls are very delicious. For their preparation you need to wrap pieces of cheese with green petioles into slices of ham, then bake in the oven for several minutes.

The most popular this plant has acquired thanks to the chef of the famous New York hotel "Astoria", who came up with a salad "Waldorf".

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 it, cut into thin strips. For beginners, we will tell you that, since a fresh plant has a sharp taste, the straw to be obtained must be doused with boiling water or poured into it with boiled water, having held it for a couple of minutes. After that, take apples of a hard grade, cut them with the same straw. Add all the prepared ingredients to the salad bowl, add the peeled walnuts. Mix all the ingredients, season the salad with mayonnaise.

If you have to cover a festive table, which will bring together real gourmets who are able to appreciate the culinary skills, as well as the mistress of the hostess, make another version of the salad. How to cook celery for this so that it has a noble, delicate taste? First, do everything according to the traditional recipe: cut the ingredients with straws, add walnuts to them. And at the very end, instead of mayonnaise, fill the dish with whipped cream. But before mixing the ingredients, add to them still diced bananas. To give the dish a truly festive, exquisite appearance, the salad is served not in a salad bowl, but laid in half of apples, after removing the core with the pulp.

Finally a few more recipes, how to cook celery. An unusual, tasty combination is 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 yoghurt.