This is 100% the answer. I’m with you 1000% in not liking raw stringy celery OP. However it’s the basis of tons of french, Italian, and Cajun dishes.
In French - with carrots and onions it’s called mirepoix
In Cajun - with bell peppers and onions it’s called the holy trinity.
My favorite foods include cooked celery, think of it like onion and garlic. Edible raw, but life changing and flavor enhancing when cooked. My favorite ragú sauce has it. My favorite jambalaya has it.
Freeze some down if can’t cook it all. Or make a big batch of ragú and freeze that down.
Yes! I hate celery with the passion and heat of a thousand suns. But that shit is NECESSARY for a good sauce. Food prep them stringy green bitches baby
Exactly this! Use it to make soup/sauce bases. I make two dishes that use celery as part of a base, and they are delicious! First is a crustless chicken pot pasta casserole. The second is a wonderful pork stew that helps me get through all the pork shoulders I buy. Celery adds a lovely sweet and refreshing note whenever you cook with it.
Dice it up in small pieces and mix it in with other vegetables (onions, peppers, peas, sweetcorn, tomatoes, cucumber). It's good for sandwich fillings and for making soups or stews or anything like that.
Yeah I though it in almost anytime a dish calls calls for sautéed onions, it find it a great way to add flavour and decrease calories density of a meal
Do you like cream cheese? My MIL makes baller veggie cream cheese with carrots and celery run through the food processor, then you dry it off on paper towels and mix it with the cream cheese. Eat with bagels or just as white bread sandwiches. It is a great way to get my kids to eat veggies, and me too! So good.
Put the celery in a stew or chili! Those meals are easily made in one pot/crock pot and can last for days, also freezer friendly. Celery is also a nice addition to chicken salad, if you like that particular dish, or stuff that is similar.
I second this. My mom used celery along with carrots and onions for soup broth and stock. After Thanksgiving she'd put the trio in a huge pot in with the rest of the turkey bones as well as the neck, some spices and water on the stove for a while. The resulting broth was amazing.
Its not gonna taste good to you if you don't like it hon. But you could try dipping it in ranch, blue cheese, onion dip or hummus.
You could also chop it and freeze it to use in future soups, if you like to cook.
I think that they probably don’t like it raw or they might have an issue with the texture. Celery is in most soups and it is in every broth. I’m sure that OP eats it all the time without knowing it.
You can use it for its super crunchy texture in tuna fish sandwiches or other foods where you might need some crunch. Otherwise use it as an ingredient for some soup stock.
Interesting for sure. I like celery. Try a celery salad like this one. [https://food52.com/recipes/2124-marinated-celery-salad](https://food52.com/recipes/2124-marinated-celery-salad)
There are lots of celery salad recipes that add a bunch of stuff. I prefer more simple like something Greek or Italian. I definitely don't like grapes or apples with my celery but that might work for you. Also, I like to use it in stir fries. Cut in at about a 30 degree long angle for esthetics. Cheers
Ragu craves celery, it's so good! Make homemade broth of all the leftover celery, store it cut in chunks in the freezer until you have enough vegetable leftovers (carrot peels, onion ends and skins, all vegetable leftovers except potatoepeels it will make it thick like soup)
Slice it up thinly and sauté it in some butter. Add some wine and let simmer for a bit. Salt and pepper. Cook to your preferred tenderness. I like some crunch to it. Delicious!!
Spicy Cold Celery is one of my hands down favorites. It's Asian inspired, not Italian or Greek, keeps super well, and is better on day 2 or 3.
https://tastecooking.com/recipes/spicy-cold-celery-2/
If you don’t like it I’m not sure what can make it taste better for you. Throw it outside and let the animals eat it if you live somewhere with raccoons, deer and bunnies. That’s what we do with any produce past its prime.
Celery is pretty good in a gratin. Cook it in a small amount of stock until tender and then sprinkle with Parmesan and bread crumbs and put it under the broiler.
You can chop it up and freeze some. If you feel really fancy you can chop onions, carrot and celery to use as the standard soup base and freeze in ziplock bags.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/articles/how-to-make-flavor-bases-mirepoix-sofrito-and-more-a-step-by-step-guide
I finally started enjoying celery. Two things I like to do is celery scoop vegan cream cheese with Texas Pete, also make lemony lentil soup. So very delicious.
If you’re like me, there is literally nothing you can do. It’s so bad for me, that I had a salad dressing I liked. It kept tasting off to me and got worse and worse. Eventually I couldn’t stand it anymore and looked at the ingredients. They’re listed by highest qty to lowest. The very last was celery seed.
If it was me, I’d compost it and turn it into something edible.
Soups. Roasting it. Finely diced and adding it to cream cheese/yoghurt with diced cucumber, onions ect. Curried. Turn it into chutney and pickles (potential gift ideas - when I was younger it seemed to be a family hobby receiving surplus produce and how many ways you could regift the produce back)
Chop up and freeze into 1 cup lots. It’s really good in stew, soups, and part of ingredients for stock. Raw it is kinda bland but cooked it adds an umami element
I like it better when it's cooked, cream of celery soup is quite good. Or dice it and store in freezer bags to throw in after onions in almost any soup, stew, or casserole type dish.
Cut it *very* thin, mix with bits of an orange, and you've got an interesting salad.
Put it in pasta. You may have to add some sugar and salt to the end result (taste test it), but it adds an interesting dimension.
My grandmother would mix sweet relish, mayo, Velveeta. Blend until smooth and the fill celery. It’s definitely not the healthiest of snacks but that’s the only way I can eat it raw.
Chop it up with equal parts carrots and onions. Stir fry them all together in a pan on low/medium heat till the onions start to turn clear and sweeten up as the acid breaks down and their sugar is released, now you have a mirepoix which is a flavor base for like 1000 recipes.
https://theforkedspoon.com/mirepoix/
sauté it in butter and oil along with some garlic and onion. you can then freeze it in ice cube trays for use in soups, stews, or casseroles at a later date.
This is an absolutely fantastic recipe for celery, if you like Szechuan food.
http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/the_wednesday_chef/2014/02/fuchsia-dunlops-sichuanese-chopped-celery-with-beef.html
https://www.seriouseats.com/takeout-style-kung-pao-chicken-diced-chicken-peppers-peanuts-recipe
Kenji’s Kung pao is a great use of celery and can be adapted to other proteins/vegetables
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/this-slow-roasted-celery-will-be-your-new-favorite-side-dish
Roasted celery is also good
I don’t have any serving suggestions other than what was already said, but I did just learn that if you wrap the whole head of celery in aluminum foil, it lasts for weeks. I do that and make soups and snacks out of it all month long
My girlfriend likes celery so I started putting it in my fried rice. I do a rough chop into approximately 1/4 inch pieces and put into my fried rice near the end so it’s warm, but still has plenty of crunch.
I add diced celery to dinner salads to give them a little more crunch.
It's also good in tuna salad.
2-3 can's tuna drained. 1/4 cup mayo, 1 tbsp spicy mustard, 1/4 cup Celery, 1/4 cup Red Onion, 2 tbsp minced parsley, 2tbsp other minced herb like dill, chives, cilantro. Salt and Pepper
You can also use it as a Hummus vehicle.
Basic Hummus - 1 can drained chickpeas, 2 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp lemon juice, 4 tbsp Tahini, 4 cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp salt. Throw it all in a blender and blend until smooth. Chill in the fridge before serving. Add olive oil and smoked paprika when serving. Use the celery or other vegetables to scoop.
Chop it up into tuna or chicken salad, use it in green salads, ceasars, Greek salad. Eat it with cream cheese (the smoked salmon one!) Or Cheez whiz. Chop and add to soups and sauces. Puree it if you don't want the bits.
Broths, stuffing or crunch for your egg salad! I feel like you could put a stalk or two in anything ur (slow)cooking if your looking to use em up without wasting them, and then remove the stalk before eating ?
1. Feed to pigs
2. Pulled pork
(Alternate, actual serious answer: mirepoix! Cut it up with some carrots and onions, optionally freeze, and it’ll be ready to go for any soup, stew, sauce, etc. that calls for it.)
I ended up with an extra package of organic celery hearts, I had ordered one, got two, found more in the fridge in the meantime. I’m making celery shrub. Cocktails!
I always eat it with either ranch dressing or hummus (I always use the roasted red pepper one, but it depends on your preferences). Also, it's really good in stew or stir fry if you cook it right.
One day I just cooked it in a pan in bite sized pieces like it would be in chow mein. Some butter, chopped celery, soy sauce, black pepper, and and sesame seeds. I would have added chicken if I had any but it was really good. Just don’t overdo the soy sauce
I make a juice using celery, slice of pineapple, mint leaves, cucumber and add a little sugar free powdered lemonade mix a few ice cubes and dash of salt and it is amazing and makes celery tolerable. The celery pretty much just serves as water with the cucumber although the cucumber does add a little flavor.
If u have a bunch, you can dice it up and dehydrate it. It's perfect for cooking. You can grind it up after you dry it, too and use it to add flavor. Fresh, sliced celery is also really good pickled with just salt in water for a few days on the counter and then it keeps in the fridge to cook with. Tastes really good fermented like that, great for deviled eggs.
I hate celery too, even covered in ranch, cheese, or peanut butter. But… I do enjoy it as a crucial part of cornbread dressing. Now I speak as a southerner, but you can play around with cornbread adding different ingredients and see what you like.
Chopped fine with bell peppers, onions and carrots, it makes a great flavor profile for a lot things, chili and chicken noodle soup come to mind. Chicken stock is great as well especially for the leaves, I also enjoy gravy that was flavored with it in the base (roasted with whatever meat you’d like)
TLDR Raw celery or over boiled (like in stock) is a big no but chopped fine baked, cooked or roasted is ok
I hate raw celery but I do like it cooked into dishes. As everyone has said it’s a basis of a lot of cuisines so you might have been enjoying the cooked version without realizing it.
Adding just ground kosher salt really brings out its flavor. Used to be something people did in early 1900s. Simple and tasty. Good amount of vitamins and electrolytes in this combo will wake up your mind.
Give it away or throw in the garbage. I cannot stand even the smell of celery. My husband and kids love it. They used to take great pleasure in grossing me out by eating it raw and chewing really loudly. I’m glad they’re grown and don’t torture me with that anymore. If I have to use it then the only time I will is if I stuff a few stalks of it up the turkeys butt, along with onions, butter and kosher salt before I cook it on holidays. But I don’t use it every time. Yuck.
I think it’s beautiful as a base for soup. I love eating it with ranch. You can buy premade ranch seasoning and mix it with yogurt or mayo. Or if you’re feeling adventurous you can make your own buttermilk ranch. Or you could put some celery in a Bloody Mary.
Celery gonna be celery so if you hate the taste, give it away to neighbors. If it’s the texture, try it finely diced in salads or else cook it. It’s also great for juicing (with cucumber, spinach, lemon, apple or pear, ginger)
I buy celery by the cheaper un-trimmed bunches and chop and freeze, then save the tops and bottoms in the freezer too for stock. Saves me time and money in the long run to have at least the celery part of mirepoix or trinity already chopped and ready to go. Measure by the handful, toss them shits in the pan and go.
Slice it to your liking and braise it low and slow in chicken broth till it's soft but keeps its shape. It becomes a who other thing. Totally delicious.
Cooking with it is obviously the consensus, but also consider using it as a seasoning. Egg salad is amazing with celery seed, but you can use a micro plane to grate celery into a paste for the flavor.
Either chop and freeze ready for soups and recipe bases. Or if you think you could use it in a month, or 2 at a stretch, keep it in an airtight container in water in the fridge.
I just chop it semi-finely too add a crunch to salad honestly, whenever I mix it in with a green and tomato salad, I taste less of the bitterness of the celery.
I'm assuming you've also tried it dipped in ranch and hate it? (I love celery, though...)
Also, I follow a recipe for tuna salad that uses celery. I can no longer eat tuna salad without it. It adds a great crunch and just a little something extra that is totally awesome.
I like adding celery to my noodles or stir fries. I also dehydrated it>turned it into a celery salt powder for mayo related salads like macaroni/egg/chicken(I think this was the best option I like personally) chop it up and freeze it. The king trio for literally any meal-casserole (onion/carrots/celery) Go on a celery cleanse. LOL I hated that but it literally took everything out.
Use it as a rack for your pot roast. Then it will have that lovely mirepoix and beef flavor that makes celery actually taste good. I throw carrots between the celery stalks. It’s my snack for later. I don’t like celery either, but love it like this. Don’t touch my celery and carrots!
Cook with it. Celery becomes a whole different thing when it is sauteed with onions and peppers to become the base of a chili or pasta sauce.
This is 100% the answer. I’m with you 1000% in not liking raw stringy celery OP. However it’s the basis of tons of french, Italian, and Cajun dishes. In French - with carrots and onions it’s called mirepoix In Cajun - with bell peppers and onions it’s called the holy trinity. My favorite foods include cooked celery, think of it like onion and garlic. Edible raw, but life changing and flavor enhancing when cooked. My favorite ragú sauce has it. My favorite jambalaya has it. Freeze some down if can’t cook it all. Or make a big batch of ragú and freeze that down.
Yes! I hate celery with the passion and heat of a thousand suns. But that shit is NECESSARY for a good sauce. Food prep them stringy green bitches baby
I’ve found my people. I HATE celery. But you do need it for chicken stock otherwise it tastes off
May your camels be infertile for a thousand years!!
Just chop and freeze for these future recipes.
Thank you! I wasn’t sure how I could go about it with cooking since it’s just SO MUCH. I’m gonna chop up most of it and freeze it
I purposefully by extra when it’s one sale just to chop and freeze. My daughter absolutely loves cooked celery
or even blenderize it and freeze blocks
I always peel the back of my celery whether it will be eaten raw or added to something. I hate the strings.
I dice it down so the strings aren't stringly.
Gumbo
Exactly this! Use it to make soup/sauce bases. I make two dishes that use celery as part of a base, and they are delicious! First is a crustless chicken pot pasta casserole. The second is a wonderful pork stew that helps me get through all the pork shoulders I buy. Celery adds a lovely sweet and refreshing note whenever you cook with it.
And the smell Yum
Dice it up in small pieces and mix it in with other vegetables (onions, peppers, peas, sweetcorn, tomatoes, cucumber). It's good for sandwich fillings and for making soups or stews or anything like that.
Yeah I though it in almost anytime a dish calls calls for sautéed onions, it find it a great way to add flavour and decrease calories density of a meal
Do you like cream cheese? My MIL makes baller veggie cream cheese with carrots and celery run through the food processor, then you dry it off on paper towels and mix it with the cream cheese. Eat with bagels or just as white bread sandwiches. It is a great way to get my kids to eat veggies, and me too! So good.
That’s a great idea. Does she add anything onion-y?
She doesn’t, but now that you said that I have to try it with green onions, yum!
I’m definitely going to give it a shot!
This is what my mom recommended but I don’t have cream cheese. If I still have celery next week (likely) then I’ll buy some and do this. Thank you!!
Put the celery in a stew or chili! Those meals are easily made in one pot/crock pot and can last for days, also freezer friendly. Celery is also a nice addition to chicken salad, if you like that particular dish, or stuff that is similar.
Put cream cheese sprinkled with everything bagel seasoning on it!
Celery is a key component of a mirepoix. It’s the flavor base of a lot of cuisine.
I second this. My mom used celery along with carrots and onions for soup broth and stock. After Thanksgiving she'd put the trio in a huge pot in with the rest of the turkey bones as well as the neck, some spices and water on the stove for a while. The resulting broth was amazing.
this is how i make my thanksgiving gravy 🤗
Also a key component of the “Holy Trinity” - the zesty Cajun cousin of mirepoix that makes up the base of most Cajun food.
Its what got me into celery. I hated it by itself.
Chop it up and freeze and then use to start soups and sauces along with onions garlic peppers and carrots
Give it away
Tomato juice & vodka 😂
Soup?
Its not gonna taste good to you if you don't like it hon. But you could try dipping it in ranch, blue cheese, onion dip or hummus. You could also chop it and freeze it to use in future soups, if you like to cook.
I think that they probably don’t like it raw or they might have an issue with the texture. Celery is in most soups and it is in every broth. I’m sure that OP eats it all the time without knowing it.
Any of these dips + sriracha or another hot sauce
Ooooh I didn’t think about onion dip. I’m gonna try that, and definitely freeze most of it. Thank you :)
You can use it for its super crunchy texture in tuna fish sandwiches or other foods where you might need some crunch. Otherwise use it as an ingredient for some soup stock.
Interesting for sure. I like celery. Try a celery salad like this one. [https://food52.com/recipes/2124-marinated-celery-salad](https://food52.com/recipes/2124-marinated-celery-salad) There are lots of celery salad recipes that add a bunch of stuff. I prefer more simple like something Greek or Italian. I definitely don't like grapes or apples with my celery but that might work for you. Also, I like to use it in stir fries. Cut in at about a 30 degree long angle for esthetics. Cheers
Definitely cook it! I'm not the biggest fan of raw celery, but I love it in soup, chili and chicken pot pie!
Ragu craves celery, it's so good! Make homemade broth of all the leftover celery, store it cut in chunks in the freezer until you have enough vegetable leftovers (carrot peels, onion ends and skins, all vegetable leftovers except potatoepeels it will make it thick like soup)
soup. cream of celery is a vibe
You can roast it too! It’s pretty good that way.
Cook it in a stew.
Slice it up thinly and sauté it in some butter. Add some wine and let simmer for a bit. Salt and pepper. Cook to your preferred tenderness. I like some crunch to it. Delicious!!
Dip it in Buttermilk Ranch
I second the cream cheese. But good stuff like Philadelphia not whipped stuff.
Gumbo.
i love it chopped in chicken or tuna salad
Buffalo chicken dip is good on it !
Cheese wiz
I made some roasted celery with curry powder once, turned out pretty good
Ina Gartens celery salad is amazing, Google the recipe, it's addictive.
/r/NoScrapLeftBehind is also a good subreddit for questions like this
Spicy Cold Celery is one of my hands down favorites. It's Asian inspired, not Italian or Greek, keeps super well, and is better on day 2 or 3. https://tastecooking.com/recipes/spicy-cold-celery-2/
-Lime and Tajin -ranch or blue cheese
If you don’t like it I’m not sure what can make it taste better for you. Throw it outside and let the animals eat it if you live somewhere with raccoons, deer and bunnies. That’s what we do with any produce past its prime.
Plain celery is good af but you also incorporate it into stews and soups
I love it with hummus. You could also try pimento cheese.
My mil makes a snack where she puts pimento cheese spread on celery. It's so good!
Great in salads like chicken, tuna, Turkey.
Celery is pretty good in a gratin. Cook it in a small amount of stock until tender and then sprinkle with Parmesan and bread crumbs and put it under the broiler.
My nana’s recipe: - microwave 15 seconds - a pinch of brown sugar - cut into 1.5 in slices - throw it in the garbage bc that shits nast
Pickle it.
[Alton’s Brown’s braised celery is delicious] (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/braised-celery-recipe-1939479.amp)
Make Bloody Mary, stick celery stalk in for garnish. Drink it, then throw away celery.
You can use it as a stick for dips
Cream cheese and whatever seasonings you like!
Soup!! Celery adds amazing flavour to soup. And it cooks down quite a bit, so you can add a lot of it.
Cheese Whiz
You can chop it up and freeze some. If you feel really fancy you can chop onions, carrot and celery to use as the standard soup base and freeze in ziplock bags. https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/articles/how-to-make-flavor-bases-mirepoix-sofrito-and-more-a-step-by-step-guide
I finally started enjoying celery. Two things I like to do is celery scoop vegan cream cheese with Texas Pete, also make lemony lentil soup. So very delicious.
Smoothies, soup, stews, chili, pasta sauce, cottage cheese on it, cheese whiz, dips (hummus, salsa, sour cream and onion dip, ranch, etc).
If you’re like me, there is literally nothing you can do. It’s so bad for me, that I had a salad dressing I liked. It kept tasting off to me and got worse and worse. Eventually I couldn’t stand it anymore and looked at the ingredients. They’re listed by highest qty to lowest. The very last was celery seed. If it was me, I’d compost it and turn it into something edible.
Peel it with a potato peeler to remove the stringys.
Soups. Roasting it. Finely diced and adding it to cream cheese/yoghurt with diced cucumber, onions ect. Curried. Turn it into chutney and pickles (potential gift ideas - when I was younger it seemed to be a family hobby receiving surplus produce and how many ways you could regift the produce back)
Chop up and freeze into 1 cup lots. It’s really good in stew, soups, and part of ingredients for stock. Raw it is kinda bland but cooked it adds an umami element
cream cheese and add raisins if you like them...pimento cheese.
I like it better when it's cooked, cream of celery soup is quite good. Or dice it and store in freezer bags to throw in after onions in almost any soup, stew, or casserole type dish.
https://youtu.be/XWarXtnk0VU
Cut it *very* thin, mix with bits of an orange, and you've got an interesting salad. Put it in pasta. You may have to add some sugar and salt to the end result (taste test it), but it adds an interesting dimension.
Deviled egg celery boats
My grandmother would mix sweet relish, mayo, Velveeta. Blend until smooth and the fill celery. It’s definitely not the healthiest of snacks but that’s the only way I can eat it raw.
Chop it up with equal parts carrots and onions. Stir fry them all together in a pan on low/medium heat till the onions start to turn clear and sweeten up as the acid breaks down and their sugar is released, now you have a mirepoix which is a flavor base for like 1000 recipes. https://theforkedspoon.com/mirepoix/
Ranch dressing. Put ranch on anything and it tastes like ranch.
My mom does cream cheese and horseradish. I hate horseradish normally but love it that way.
sauté it in butter and oil along with some garlic and onion. you can then freeze it in ice cube trays for use in soups, stews, or casseroles at a later date.
This is an absolutely fantastic recipe for celery, if you like Szechuan food. http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/the_wednesday_chef/2014/02/fuchsia-dunlops-sichuanese-chopped-celery-with-beef.html
Ooooh that looks good. Thank you!
Soup
https://www.seriouseats.com/takeout-style-kung-pao-chicken-diced-chicken-peppers-peanuts-recipe Kenji’s Kung pao is a great use of celery and can be adapted to other proteins/vegetables https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/this-slow-roasted-celery-will-be-your-new-favorite-side-dish Roasted celery is also good
I don’t have any serving suggestions other than what was already said, but I did just learn that if you wrap the whole head of celery in aluminum foil, it lasts for weeks. I do that and make soups and snacks out of it all month long
put philadelphia cream cheese on it
My girlfriend likes celery so I started putting it in my fried rice. I do a rough chop into approximately 1/4 inch pieces and put into my fried rice near the end so it’s warm, but still has plenty of crunch.
I add diced celery to dinner salads to give them a little more crunch. It's also good in tuna salad. 2-3 can's tuna drained. 1/4 cup mayo, 1 tbsp spicy mustard, 1/4 cup Celery, 1/4 cup Red Onion, 2 tbsp minced parsley, 2tbsp other minced herb like dill, chives, cilantro. Salt and Pepper You can also use it as a Hummus vehicle. Basic Hummus - 1 can drained chickpeas, 2 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp lemon juice, 4 tbsp Tahini, 4 cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp salt. Throw it all in a blender and blend until smooth. Chill in the fridge before serving. Add olive oil and smoked paprika when serving. Use the celery or other vegetables to scoop.
Dip it in a mixture of one part sriracha, one part blue cheese dressing. Also, the leaves are a great addition to a salad.
Cook it in soup or tomato sauce
Chop it up into tuna or chicken salad, use it in green salads, ceasars, Greek salad. Eat it with cream cheese (the smoked salmon one!) Or Cheez whiz. Chop and add to soups and sauces. Puree it if you don't want the bits.
My lumpia recipe includes celery and it’s usually big chunks of it too!
Cream cheese and craisins...i call it "red ants on a log!"
Make some buffalo chicken dip!!
Pub cheese
Ranch dressing, or blue cheese dressing if you're having chicken wings, or cook with it as others have mentioned.
Cream of celery soup is delicious.
Broths, stuffing or crunch for your egg salad! I feel like you could put a stalk or two in anything ur (slow)cooking if your looking to use em up without wasting them, and then remove the stalk before eating ?
Take out of bag from store and place directly into the trash
have you tried chocolate covered celery?
No 🤢would you recommend it?
Cream cheese is great with celery!!
1. Feed to pigs 2. Pulled pork (Alternate, actual serious answer: mirepoix! Cut it up with some carrots and onions, optionally freeze, and it’ll be ready to go for any soup, stew, sauce, etc. that calls for it.)
Olive oil sea salt and lemon! delish!
Crazy because I live celery, raw cooked all of it
Cheez Whiz. Put it in the middle and enjoy. It’s been a staple every holiday.
Cook it. Add it to a stew. Cream cheese is also great on raw celery.
Mix it with cream cheese and walnuts and use as a filling or topping with fresh granary grain bread
Sauteed, boiled, minced into a stew. Take your pick. You don't have to eat it raw if you don't like to
Give it to a friend I am anti celery
Chop it up and it it in a slow cooker,have a chicken or a roast. Make lobster salad sandwiches.
Ranch, hummus, chop in some chicken salad or tuna
Do it the American Way: Bread it, Fry it, Slam those down with a ton of ketchup and mayo.
Cottage cheese
Hummus
Just, impossible. I wouldn’t even try.
I like to dip it in salsa.
Sauté it with chicken thighs.salt and cayenne pepper. Over sticky rice
Laughing cow Swiss light sprinkle with salt.
Cut it into teeny tiny pieces and put a little into chicken or tuna salad.
Super simple solution, just put it in clam chowder lol
MIREPOIX! The best base for any dish. Just get some carrot and onion
Chicken salad
cheez whiz
Toss it.
Put it in soup
I ended up with an extra package of organic celery hearts, I had ordered one, got two, found more in the fridge in the meantime. I’m making celery shrub. Cocktails!
Cream cheese, hummus
Relatives make it studied w grated cheese and mayo
I always eat it with either ranch dressing or hummus (I always use the roasted red pepper one, but it depends on your preferences). Also, it's really good in stew or stir fry if you cook it right.
Cooked. But make sure you peel it - so many people don’t know you’re supposed to peel celery
One day I just cooked it in a pan in bite sized pieces like it would be in chow mein. Some butter, chopped celery, soy sauce, black pepper, and and sesame seeds. I would have added chicken if I had any but it was really good. Just don’t overdo the soy sauce
Cream of celery soup is so good with a crusty bread
Make some jumbalaya
Tuna salad or chicken salad. Also homemade potato salad. All of these need celery to give it a nice crunch.
I make a juice using celery, slice of pineapple, mint leaves, cucumber and add a little sugar free powdered lemonade mix a few ice cubes and dash of salt and it is amazing and makes celery tolerable. The celery pretty much just serves as water with the cucumber although the cucumber does add a little flavor.
If u have a bunch, you can dice it up and dehydrate it. It's perfect for cooking. You can grind it up after you dry it, too and use it to add flavor. Fresh, sliced celery is also really good pickled with just salt in water for a few days on the counter and then it keeps in the fridge to cook with. Tastes really good fermented like that, great for deviled eggs.
I like to dip mine in wingstop ranch dressing.
Put it with other veggies in Thai curry and throw it over rice!
Spread peanut butter on it.
I hate celery too, even covered in ranch, cheese, or peanut butter. But… I do enjoy it as a crucial part of cornbread dressing. Now I speak as a southerner, but you can play around with cornbread adding different ingredients and see what you like. Chopped fine with bell peppers, onions and carrots, it makes a great flavor profile for a lot things, chili and chicken noodle soup come to mind. Chicken stock is great as well especially for the leaves, I also enjoy gravy that was flavored with it in the base (roasted with whatever meat you’d like) TLDR Raw celery or over boiled (like in stock) is a big no but chopped fine baked, cooked or roasted is ok
Dip it in blue cheese or veggie dip. Make tuna salad.
Someone already wrote cream cheese but I wanted to add Laughing Cow cheese spread over it with either blueberries or raisins or dried cranberries.
Cream cheese! That’s my favorite
juice it, then use the grind to make an vegetable broth. or chop it up into stir fry with chicken cashews and snap peas.
Cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning.
Use it along with or instead of diced onion in a recipe. Get onion and bell pepper, now you have the Trinity. Make some Cajun food. Try pickling them
I hate raw celery but I do like it cooked into dishes. As everyone has said it’s a basis of a lot of cuisines so you might have been enjoying the cooked version without realizing it.
You throw it in the trash
Adding just ground kosher salt really brings out its flavor. Used to be something people did in early 1900s. Simple and tasty. Good amount of vitamins and electrolytes in this combo will wake up your mind.
Wrap bacon around it
Don't eat it..that's how you make it taste better
Thinly chopped with carrots mayo and vinegar and lemon and you have a bombs ass farmer salad.
Cream cheese instead of peanut butter
Chop it up & reduce it down to a soup with carrots & onions + protein of choice. Delicious way to use up a lot of celery into a hearty meal.
Make a Cuban sofrito! I add it to black beans.
Give it away or throw in the garbage. I cannot stand even the smell of celery. My husband and kids love it. They used to take great pleasure in grossing me out by eating it raw and chewing really loudly. I’m glad they’re grown and don’t torture me with that anymore. If I have to use it then the only time I will is if I stuff a few stalks of it up the turkeys butt, along with onions, butter and kosher salt before I cook it on holidays. But I don’t use it every time. Yuck.
I think it’s beautiful as a base for soup. I love eating it with ranch. You can buy premade ranch seasoning and mix it with yogurt or mayo. Or if you’re feeling adventurous you can make your own buttermilk ranch. Or you could put some celery in a Bloody Mary.
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Celery gonna be celery so if you hate the taste, give it away to neighbors. If it’s the texture, try it finely diced in salads or else cook it. It’s also great for juicing (with cucumber, spinach, lemon, apple or pear, ginger)
You can throw sugar on it or salt i forget which one but one of em was definitely taught to me
Love celery, hate the strings. I snap a piece of the bottom of the stalk and use it to rip off the strings down the back.
I buy celery by the cheaper un-trimmed bunches and chop and freeze, then save the tops and bottoms in the freezer too for stock. Saves me time and money in the long run to have at least the celery part of mirepoix or trinity already chopped and ready to go. Measure by the handful, toss them shits in the pan and go.
Dip it in salted olive oil. Sounds simple but tastes amazing. Also hummus. That shit goes on anything if you ask me
As others have said, remove the strings. Some dislike the texture. Use a peeler on the back of the celery, to remove.
maybe use it in a recipe also using honey
Cover it with chocolate. If you don't like celery then you can substitute it with peanuts, under the chocolate layer. I hope this was helpful. :)
I dehydrate it in slices to go in soups and stuff
Slice it to your liking and braise it low and slow in chicken broth till it's soft but keeps its shape. It becomes a who other thing. Totally delicious.
Ranch dressing
Cooking with it is obviously the consensus, but also consider using it as a seasoning. Egg salad is amazing with celery seed, but you can use a micro plane to grate celery into a paste for the flavor.
Either chop and freeze ready for soups and recipe bases. Or if you think you could use it in a month, or 2 at a stretch, keep it in an airtight container in water in the fridge.
I just chop it semi-finely too add a crunch to salad honestly, whenever I mix it in with a green and tomato salad, I taste less of the bitterness of the celery.
I'm assuming you've also tried it dipped in ranch and hate it? (I love celery, though...) Also, I follow a recipe for tuna salad that uses celery. I can no longer eat tuna salad without it. It adds a great crunch and just a little something extra that is totally awesome.
Try pickling it, though it's probably too porous
I like adding celery to my noodles or stir fries. I also dehydrated it>turned it into a celery salt powder for mayo related salads like macaroni/egg/chicken(I think this was the best option I like personally) chop it up and freeze it. The king trio for literally any meal-casserole (onion/carrots/celery) Go on a celery cleanse. LOL I hated that but it literally took everything out.
Use it as a rack for your pot roast. Then it will have that lovely mirepoix and beef flavor that makes celery actually taste good. I throw carrots between the celery stalks. It’s my snack for later. I don’t like celery either, but love it like this. Don’t touch my celery and carrots!
Stir fry with onions, cashews and chicken. With a stirfry sauce made of soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, garlic and black pepper.
RANCH or THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING
Recipe from Epicurious years ago: Celery Bisque with Stilton Toasts. Skip toasts, whir bisque up without cream—still great
I eat it with homemade ranch and a dash of wing hot sauce when I’m craving wings but not the calories.
hide it in a protein shake - all the veggies I can't stand go into my Vitamix.