What goes well with celery?
I know that some people eat celery with hummus. Or put pimento cheese or peanut butter on it. Are there any other foods that you think go well with celery? I’ve got some celery in my fridge that I’m trying to eat up.
Use your celery as an ingredient to make other things amazing. Mirepoix would be my first suggestion.
Tangentially related: It's also great to add to a stock, and if you ever get a grocery store rotisserie chicken, you should consider making stock with it after you've cleaned off all the meat you want. Skin, bones (broken bones are even better), celery, onions, carrots... Even onion skins and those celery leaves I mentioned, it can all go in, you just strain everything out after you're done cooking.
Pretty much any time you cook meat, consider incorporating celery into the ingredient list. It's a friendly companion.
We always use celery when we make stock for our dogs, as we make their food using fish stock or beef stock. We get super cheap bags of salmon meat (like 5 pounds for $5) at the local farmers market and then use all of that to make stock. We get enough stock to last about 6 months per batch.
This is the correct answer. Celery is an ingredient, not something you eat on its own. You CAN eat raw onion chunks, but most don't. Better as an ingredient.
Any french/ Italian that calls for the three veg onion, carrot, celery (they have a name for it). I use it in my spaghetti sauce.
Mirepoix! You can also swap the carrot for bell pepper to get the Cajun equivalent
That’s the holy trinity.
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Cream cheese. Hot sauce. Even just salt
Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).
Mirepoix
Blue cheese or ranch dressing.
Tunafish.
Tuna Salad for sure.
Especially spicy tuna
I use a good amount along with carrots when I make split pea soup.
It's also good in chicken salad alongside grapes and chopped almonds.
A light bit of salt. Buffalo sauce mixed with Bleu cheese or ranch. Put some food dye in a cup and watch it grow up the stalk.
Essential ingredient in almost every Soup Stock.
Honestly I hate it on its own but it goes well in every soup I've ever made.
Mirepoix is in a lot of stuff besides soup as well. Onions, carrots, and Celery base.
We used to have a prep bucket that we would fill with all our ends of onion, celery, carrots, sometimes tomatoes and garlic in. It would get put in a bag, dated and frozen. Then we would make stock from it when we had enough. Reduced to a quarter 4 times if I remember right.
We also used to save all our fish and meat trimmings separately so we could use it in the stock making depending on what kind of soup were going to make.
I still make turkey stalk with the thanksgiving caucus. Then make turkey soup. My favorite part of thanksgiving/christmas turkey! There is almost no waste when I cook for the holidays.
In Louisiana we have the holy Trinity: onion, celery, and green bell pepper add the basis for most of our foods.
If you want something easy, maybe mix that with some scrambled eggs and rice. Otherwise, peanut butter? Haha
Cut off the base and the tips, rinse it all, cut scoop-sized pieces of the perfect stalks or parts of stalks and pop them in some ice water until you can try the suggestions. Chop all the rest, leaves and too small inner bits and strong-flavored rough outer stalks. Put the chopped pieces in the freezer. Perfect for chicken soup, or in almost anything that starts with "chop an onion." (Not instead of the onion, in addition to it!)
Celery is great fight me
Tuna salad sandwich. Gotta cut the celery up fine though.
Like others are saying Bloody Marys & mirepoix. If you want to eat it raw with stuff, but you're not in love with the texture, I'd recommend lightly peeling the celery before cutting into sticks. Removing some of the chewy rind while leaving the crunch makes it much more palatable.
has anyone said "just salt" yet?
Unpopular opinion... Celery is delicious plain
(Not the super green stuff, that's only good for cooking
ranch
Depends on how loosely you define 'with celery' - I like celery in soups, especially with chicken-based soups, but that's not really something you can just grab a stick of celery and dip into or whatever.
Soup, anything else is crazy, fight me on it!
They are an excellent addition to any compost bin.
I kid (not a huge fan when celery is out with other things but don’t mind it on its own). Definitely gotta have it in a Bloody Mary / Bloody Caesar though.
Frankly you can get more or less the same flavor in mirepoix using celery seed. The flavor of the plant, on its own, is that of satans taint sweat.
Agreed. Little vodka, some tomato juice or clamato, olives, wustershire sauce, hot sauce... Now I want one.
“I could definitely have a Caesar.”
Cottage cheese.
Cheez wiz, as the name implies its a cheese spread that comes in a jar.
Mix cottage cheese with paprica or curry powder, and use it as a dip for the celery.
My wife says cream cheese and fruit jams/preserves.
Here's a celery salad recipe I've used a few times: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130004342/https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/celery-salad-with-dates-almonds-and-parmesan
I usually sub raisins for the dates.
Those are hummus shovels in this house.
A distraction! You need to watch the McGrover movie on Nezflik. Celery is important but you must remember to chamfer the stalk part.
Cream cheese. But peanut butter is always best.
I love it in cheese fondue
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This is probably my Greek side talking, but I find that manestra just doesn't hit the same without some diced celery!
I love it with hummus.
Feta cheese
The compost.
You can make real good humus out of celery.
You can use celery sticks to scoop up peanut butter. They go well with all sorts of nuts in salads. That being said, I'm not a fan of celery
I don't have a recipe for you, but someone once made me celery and red pepper soup and it was DELICIOUS.
Ranch dressing
Celery makes all soups taste pro 👌
Peanut butter and peanuts?
Peanut butter and raisins.
Ants on a log!
So close!
How tf you gonna make bumps on a log without the bumps?!
You know what's another great improvement? Toss the celery in the trash.
I’m with you. Raisins aren’t bad but totally overboard in this context.