Celeriac substitute

balloo_2

Hi I hope this is the right place for this question.

I am making diet soup and the recipe calls for chopped Celeriac would celery stems do as a replacement. I dont cook that much so i havent got a clue where to find the stuff let alone what it looks and tastes like.
Thank You All

adiwood

You can buy it in the supermarkets e.g Tesco etc. It is actually a type of celery and tastes like celery but more rooty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeriac

When I make soup though I bung anything in there, depending on what I have laying around.

I expect normal celery will be fine. Just cut it up into 1cm chunks before adding to avoid it going stringy.

pookiewn

Celeriac is a rather ugly looking root veg, it looks somewhat like swede - but a bit more knobbly and has hairy roots sticking out. It does taste very similar to celery so could be substituted if it was only for flavour. HTH.

Pitlanepiglet

I made celariac and potato soup this week and it's lovely. I'd have a look for it as it was really nice and this was the first time that I'd had it.

If you sub celery you may need something to add thickness as the celariac was quite gloopy (in a nice way!).

adiwood

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I made celariac and potato soup this week and it's lovely. I'd have a look for it as it was really nice and this was the first time that I'd had it.

If you sub celery you may need something to add thickness as the celariac was quite gloopy (in a nice way!).

Yes, I would have thought adding a potato should do the trick.

wantai

The other day Dean - one of the chefs on ITV's This Morning show was making a salad with celeriac and mentioned that cabbage could be used as a substitute.

Enterprise_1701C

I always assume anything in a recipe can be substituted, very rarely stick to a recipe, in fact very rarely use one. If you want to substitute it with celery, then do so. Just one thing, if you make changes to a recipe or throw something together yourself, just make notes along the way. I made a chuck-together meal one time that was the best thing I had ever made, but there is no way I could remember what was in it!!

kippers

You can put anything in a homemade soup....celeriac comes from the same family as celery. Any veg is ok in a diet soup, though i would think celeriac has less calories than a potato (if you are counting calories)