I know that some people eat celery with hummus. Or put pimento cheese or peanut butter on it. Are there any other foods that you think go well with celery? I’ve got some celery in my fridge that I’m trying to eat up.
Mix cottage cheese with paprica or curry powder, and use it as a dip for the celery.
I don’t have a recipe for you, but someone once made me celery and red pepper soup and it was DELICIOUS.
Use your celery as an ingredient to make other things amazing. Mirepoix would be my first suggestion.
Tangentially related: It’s also great to add to a stock, and if you ever get a grocery store rotisserie chicken, you should consider making stock with it after you’ve cleaned off all the meat you want. Skin, bones (broken bones are even better), celery, onions, carrots… Even onion skins and those celery leaves I mentioned, it can all go in, you just strain everything out after you’re done cooking.
Pretty much any time you cook meat, consider incorporating celery into the ingredient list. It’s a friendly companion.
We always use celery when we make stock for our dogs, as we make their food using fish stock or beef stock. We get super cheap bags of salmon meat (like 5 pounds for $5) at the local farmers market and then use all of that to make stock. We get enough stock to last about 6 months per batch.
I too use stock for making food for my dogs. I’ll also make jello treats, it’s cheap, they love it, it’s really good for them.
Fellow dog lovers unite.
This is the correct answer. Celery is an ingredient, not something you eat on its own. You CAN eat raw onion chunks, but most don’t. Better as an ingredient.
Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).
Tuna salad sandwich. Gotta cut the celery up fine though.
Any french/ Italian that calls for the three veg onion, carrot, celery (they have a name for it). I use it in my spaghetti sauce.
Cream cheese. But peanut butter is always best.
Cream cheese. Hot sauce. Even just salt
The compost.
You can make real good humus out of celery.
Here’s a celery salad recipe I’ve used a few times: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130004342/https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/celery-salad-with-dates-almonds-and-parmesan
I usually sub raisins for the dates.
Soup, anything else is crazy, fight me on it!
Cut off the base and the tips, rinse it all, cut scoop-sized pieces of the perfect stalks or parts of stalks and pop them in some ice water until you can try the suggestions. Chop all the rest, leaves and too small inner bits and strong-flavored rough outer stalks. Put the chopped pieces in the freezer. Perfect for chicken soup, or in almost anything that starts with “chop an onion.” (Not instead of the onion, in addition to it!)
I use a good amount along with carrots when I make split pea soup.
It’s also good in chicken salad alongside grapes and chopped almonds.
This is probably my Greek side talking, but I find that manestra just doesn’t hit the same without some diced celery!
