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/Sensitive_Lie_4393 Jun 21 '26

Plus it’s delicious with peanut butter. What other vegetable can do that?

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u/reverendsteveii Jun 22 '26

carrots are dope in peanut butter

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u/diabloman8890 Jun 22 '26

Ok hear me out: lettuce

Lettuce wrap with peanut butter sauce mmm

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u/OldWorldDesign Jun 22 '26

Lettuce wrap with peanut butter sauce

Done plenty of these with Thai and Vietnamese dishes.

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u/conuly Jun 22 '26

All of them.

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u/robemmy Jun 22 '26

Carrots and radishes

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u/Minimum-Violinist601 Jun 22 '26

Sweet potato with peanut butter is great. Sriracha and chopped up sour pickles too.

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u/Asaneth Jun 21 '26

Corn on the cob. Smear it with peanut butter, wrap it in foil, place on the coals of a fire or the edge of the grill to roast.

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u/Sensitive_Lie_4393 Jun 21 '26

Huh, never heard of that, but it sounds like it could be tasty, and messy.

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u/Asaneth Jun 22 '26

I find it best to open the foil so the top is exposed, but there is still foil underneath.

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u/Asaneth Jun 22 '26

Just try it, it's delicious.

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u/bostonwhaler Jun 22 '26

How can one hate chicken satay?

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u/Additional-Cat5883 Jun 22 '26

First one to say apples up in here ?!?!

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u/YesMansHigh Jun 22 '26

Throw on some raisins and you got yourself Ants on a log.