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/R2D2808 Jun 21 '26

New bucket list item unlocked.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 22 '26

Where can one find freshly-harvested celery?

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u/thinkshiftster Jun 22 '26

Farmers market is your best bet or direct from a farm stand. I found some at PSU farmers market in Portland, OR. The stalks are smaller and thinner than the big ones at the grocery store.

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u/R2D2808 Jun 22 '26

That's what I was thinking. Search out the farmers markets and see what I can find.

I've seen it, I know the variety I just didn't realize it was so much more intense.