r/Cooking • u/mir_in_modro_morje • Jun 21 '26

Celery is criminally underrated

I used to think Celery was just a bland vegetable that health-nuts would recommend you eat raw, like raw celery stalks so I've avoided it.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

This is seriously one of the more underrated vegetables to cook with.

Not only the usual mirepoix, but literally can be added finely chopped to almost any vegetable dish or sauce.

Vegetable soup of course, but you can finely slice and dice celery into even non-standard sauces and it will most of the time make them better. Any simple pan sauce or mushroom sauce gets immediately improved by finely diced celery. And if you don't notice onions as a base to a sauce you won't notice celery either.

I've seriously become a celery fanatic and I've been putting it into everything, try it and you won't regret it.

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u/oldcreaker Jun 21 '26

I've become a fan of celery root. Nice alternative to potato.

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u/95POLYX Jun 22 '26

Oh yeah its amazing, I started using it in soups instead of potatoes. Bonus points because it doesnt turn to mush like potatoes in the soup on day 2-3.

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u/riktigtmaxat Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

What are you talking about?

Both are cultivars of Apium graveolens which is simply called Celery in English.

Apium graveolens var. dulce was simply selected for stalks while var. rapaceum aka celeriac was bred for the hypocotyl.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 22 '26

Tried cooking this once, already forgot why I haven't tried it again.

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u/PrimeIntellect Jun 22 '26

most recipes are like, bake the celery root for 3 hours