How to cook celery root and stalk

The value of the root and stalk of celery is known to everyone: rare amino acids, carotene, asparagine, tyrosine, trace elements, essential oils, vitamins K, A, E, B-group vitamins, ascorbic acid, protein and many other useful and irreplaceable substances. A unique substance, apiol, gives the celery a piquant taste and aroma.

The useful effect of celery is unlimited. Not only the stalk of celery, but also the root, and the greens:

• Slow aging;
• Purify blood and blood vessels;
• Stimulate appetite;
• Support the work of cells;
• Normalize the water-salt balance;
• Maintain a normal level of sugar;
• Regulate the work of the kidneys and liver;
• Strengthen sexual function;
• Heal allergies;
• Soothe the nervous system.

You can cook any dishes from celery: a celery stalk and curly greens are beautiful in salads, and from the root you can prepare a useful soup.

From the stalk of celery you can make light, useful salads:

"Green freshness"

Green apple, cucumber and a celery stalk cut into cubes, a green salad to pick and fold in a bowl with vegetables. Juice half a lemon squeezed into a salad, stir, add olive oil and a little pine nuts. Instead of olive oil, you can use a sauce made from light mayonnaise and sweet mustard - the taste will be spicier.

This salad can easily be turned into juice: all fruits and vegetables are driven through the juicer and drink before eating - excellent digestion is guaranteed!

"Vitaminka"

Celery, cabbage kohlrabi, sweet apple and raw carrots cut into thin strips. Soak raisins in warm water for 20 minutes, rinse well, add to vegetables. Mix olive oil with liquid honey, season salad and sprinkle with cedar or walnuts.

"Chicken Joy"

Boiled chicken meat, celery stalk and canned pineapple cut into large cubes, cheese of hard varieties grate. Put into the salad bowl layers: chicken, grated cheese, pineapple, celery. Sour cream or mayonnaise mixed with boiled yolks and a spoonful of sweet mustard, cover each layer with sauce. Parsley, dill and celery greens finely chopped and decorated with a salad.

What can I cook from the celery root? Anything: the grated celery root can be added to stew, to your favorite soups, to gravy, to salads - the fantasy of housewives is endless!

Creamy soup

Boil soup and can be on the water, and on any meat low-fat broth. Cut into cubes 1 sweet onion and fry together with two slices of garlic until golden in butter. Four small potatoes and one celery root, cut into cubes, dip into boiling broth or water, add roast, and cook until the potatoes are ready. A few minutes before turning off the soup, add the spices to taste. Finished soup to bring in the blender to the state of mashed potatoes, pour into a saucepan, add half a cup of fat cream and, stirring, bring to a boil. When serving decorate any greens.

And, finally, the "Men's" salad

The celery root is rubbed on a large grater, the boiled tongue and salted cucumbers cut with large straws, we add finely chopped greens, and fill with low-fat or home-made mayonnaise.