Today there are a huge number of salads fromstalk of celery. They took a worthy place in the menu of the most expensive restaurants around the world, and later, thanks to the dissemination of information on the useful properties of this vegetable, "migrated" to the kitchens of many housewives. It does not have a bright and rich taste, so the culinary virtuosos recommend adding berry, fruit, meat, and sea notes to dishes. Salads with a celery stalk are quite simple to prepare, however, even with such characteristics, as a result they amaze with their taste sensations. Such a dish, combined with shrimps, oranges, chicken, nuts and other ingredients, will decorate any festive table, and its simpler version, for example, with cabbage and carrots seasoned with olive oil, will be a perfect addition to your daily diet. Having mastered these simple recipes, you can prepare appetizing and at the same time useful food. Well, shall we begin?
Simple salad with celery and apples
The use of cauliflower celery, according toresearches of well-known nutritionists, helps to get rid of problems with arterial pressure, strengthen the immune system, which will allow you to survive the cold season without diseases. In addition, if you watch your figure and struggle with excess weight, this vegetable should become a permanent "resident" of your refrigerator - it removes toxic substances from the human body. Therefore, we suggest including in your diet a salad of stalks of celery with juicy apples and nuts. Ingredients: For salad:
- two green (take a small) apple
- 100 grams of walnuts (or other)
- 250 grams of cauliflower celery
- one tablespoon of sour lemon juice
For sauce:
- four large spoons of not very fatty cream
- 100 grams of delicious mayonnaise
- lemon juice - two tablespoons
- Add freshly ground pepper (black) and table salt to taste
For decoration:
- fresh greens and lettuce leaves
Cooking method: Naturally, first you should wash and clean (where necessary) from the skin products, namely: celery, nuts and apples. Stems of vegetables cut into thin straws, and fruits - small cubes. That both ingredients in the cooking process are not darkened, sprinkle them with lemon juice. Now make the sauce: for this, combine in a deep bowl a delicious mayonnaise, table salt and a little pepper, as well as a well-whipped cream. Pour the resulting mixture of celery, apples and walnuts (after clean, grind them with a knife). Thoroughly mix the finished mass and refrigerate for one to two hours. Take food is always nicer from beautiful dishes, with a decent serving. Therefore, put on a large plate of lettuce leaves, and on top - a ready dish, sprinkled with pre-chopped parsley or dill. Bon Appetit!
Salad "Celery spring" with sesame seeds and apple
We offer another version of a light salad. For refueling, we used delicate mayonnaise, but at will you can safely replace it with olive oil. Better add refined - it does not impart a taste of bitterness. Also suitable is a sauce: crushed (fork or spoon) low-fat cottage cheese in combination with sour cream and lemon juice. This dish is able not only to relieve the feeling of hunger, but also to cheer up in a moment! Do not believe me? And you try! Ingredients:
- sesame seeds - two tablespoons
- 350 grams of cauliflower celery (you can use the root)
- one big sweet and sour apple
- 100 grams of good hard cheese (Dutch or Russian)
- Salt and black pepper - at your discretion
- three tablespoons of light mayonnaise
Cooking method: Peel off all excess celery stems and cut them in small pieces. Remove the skin from the apple, remove the core and seeds, then divide into thin slices, and grate the cheese with thick strips on the grater. Put all the products in a salad bowl, add sesame, a little black or white freshly ground pepper, a pinch of salt, and mayonnaise. The resulting mixture is well mixed with a spoon and spread in portions in small bowls. It turns out that useful food can be appetizing: such a salad is the sure proof!
"Incredible pleasure": salad with chicken and celery
Of course, vegetable salads are very useful, because theydo not harm the figure, but after eating such a dish, a second feeling of hunger comes after one or two hours. Therefore, if you want to feed your man with such a dish, add some meat product to it. We propose to introduce chicken - white meat is easy to digest and is popular with many. Ingredients:
- one fresh large cucumber
- 25 grams, peeled and crushed, walnuts (or other) nuts
- celery stalks - put it at your own discretion
- four tablespoons of not very fatty sour cream
- a pinch of sea salt
- 150 grams of raw mushrooms (can use canned)
- freshly ground white or black pepper - optional
- 250 grams of fresh chicken
Cooking method: Cut the celery stalks with a knife. If you use a root, first clean it from the peel, and then grate it. Salt only the beginner to boil water and boil the chicken in it. When it cools down, divide it by hands into thin meat fibers. Spread a frying pan, pour a small amount of olive oil into it and put the mushrooms cut into cubes. Stirring constantly, fry them until golden brown (keep on fire for a couple of minutes). Now peel the nuts, crush them, and cut cucumbers into thin strips. All the ingredients listed above, combine in a deep bowl, add salt and pepper to your taste. Serve the dish with sour cream and mix thoroughly. There is no need to use cooked chicken. Fillet can be rubbed with one clove of garlic, sprinkled with fragrant Provencal herbs and fried in a saucepan, some bake it in the oven. The golden color of the meat will give the salad a special chic. In addition to lovers of mayonnaise, we recommend making sauce from this product - mix it with lemon juice and season the dish. And if you do not have fresh champignons on hand, take canned (even home-made dried mushrooms will do). However, they should be previously soaked in hot water for ten to fifteen minutes, and then fry in a pan.
Festive salad "Lucien"
Do you want to try something unusual? We offer this recipe. The combination of products such as carrots, sweet onions, chicken meat, celery and pomegranate will appeal to everyone, from small to large. The salad turns out to be very colorful, bright and incredibly appetizing. Ingredients: For salad:
- one big carrot
- Crimean violet bulb - one piece
- one medium chicken breast
- eggs - two pieces
- four to five stalks of celery
- grains of pomegranate - at your discretion
- green onions - optional
For sauce:
- two tablespoons of shopping cream (25% fit)
- salad mayonnaise - one large spoon
- one teaspoon of ready-made Worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon curry powder
Cooking method: Cook in one pan chicken breast and carrots. You can do this in different dishes, but in this way the carrots will collect all the flavor of the broth, which makes the dish even tastier. Then cut the meat into medium pieces and fry in olive oil from all sides. The degree of readiness is easy to determine - the chicken will become gently golden and rosy. Boil hard-boiled eggs so that they cool faster, put them under ice water, then peel and cut into small cubes, and stalks of celery - in small pieces, chop finely onions. As for carrots, it can be grated, or cut into strips. To prepare the sauce, combine mayonnaise, not very fatty cream, ready-made Worcestershire sauce and curry in one bowl - mix well and pour the salad. It is not necessary to salt it - thanks to the filling, the dish comes out rather brackish. If there is no curry, use ordinary mustard in powder or in grains, having enough time in reserve, you can cook Worcestershire sauce yourself. His recipe you will find in any cookbook. Create for your own pleasure!
Sweet salad with celery and canned pineapple
No matter how much we want, people can notmanage nature. Summer has come to an end, and it remains only to remember the warm days and admire the remains of a tan that has not yet fully descended. Why be sad, if you can arrange a friendly party, see pictures and meet the autumn without a spleen. For this case, a recipe for a sweet salad with pineapple and celery stems is suitable. A perfect addition to it will be cold champagne. Ingredients: For salad:
- fresh or canned pineapple
- 250 grams of cauliflower celery
- a pinch of common salt
- black pepper and powdered sugar - to taste
For sauce:
- olive oil - three tablespoons
- a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice
- for decoration you can take salad leaves
Cooking method: Drain from the jar with pineapple excess liquid and cut its lobules into medium cubes. If you are preparing a dish of fresh fruit, first properly remove from it the skin, and then cut with a knife. Stem celery cut into thin circles. Now prepare the sauce. To do this, make a mix of olive oil, sugar powder, freshly sour lemon juice, add salt and a little black pepper, then pour into a mixture of celery with pineapple and mix. The bottom of the plate, in which you will serve the dish, lined with bright lettuce leaves, and lay out the ready dish on top. Do you want to decorate it with something? Use fresh mint or parsley for this.
Fruit salad with fresh kiwi and celery
Another summer reminder is such a fruitysalad. It can be served on a festive table as a dessert or treat your beloved by adding warm embraces, hot kisses and good wine to the dish. Ingredients:
- two fresh kiwi
- 200 grams of celery stalks
- two large spoons of quality cognac
- low-fat (25-30 percent) cream - half cup
- one tablespoon of soy sauce (if you do not like it, then do not use it)
Cooking method: First you need to make a gas station. With a fork or special whisk, whisk well the soy sauce with cream and cognac (if desired, add a little salt), put it on a very weak fire, and, without forgetting to regularly stir, cook until half of the liquid evaporates. But in any case, do not bring to a boil, otherwise you will spoil everything! When the mixture is ready, cover it with a lid and cool it. Now remove the brown peel from the kiwi, peel the celery and cut both products into small pieces. Lay them layer by layer in the salad bowl prepared for each, sprinkling each row with sauce. You can make a rosette of lettuce leaves and decorate it with a dish. Many are mistaken, believing that useful foods are tasteless and unpleasant. Having prepared a couple of these salads, you will see how mouth-watering a dish of celery might be. Make it with mayonnaise or sour cream, with olive oil; the vegetable in combination with the fruit will become even more delicious, and the salad will be low-calorie if you fill it with freshly squeezed juice, natural yogurt or lean cream. Cook from fresh quality products paired with a great mood, and then every dish will become your little culinary masterpiece. Good luck! We advise you to read: