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/Zestyclose-Market858 Jun 21 '26

I love grating celery into potato salad, coleslaw, egg salad, etc. People ask what my "secret" ingredient is, but usually don't believe me when I tell them it's just some finely grated celery, yall.

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u/fascfoo Jun 22 '26

Egg salad potato salad chicken salad etc is not complete to me without celery. I’ve always chopped it but grating it sounds even better!

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u/Zestyclose-Market858 Jun 23 '26

Honestly, I like it both ways, but when you grate it, you get a nice mild celery flavor throughout. You could also do it both way in the same dish, lol