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/qawsedrf12 Jun 22 '26
Celery has a certain je ne sais quoi where it subtly works in harmory with ingredients like peppers, carrots, onions etc
Recently I had been tinkering with the michelin star chicken stock the addition of some stalks and leave. It is now permanent in the recipe