Celery Soup

SnowyOwl_2

just wondering if anyone has any really easy recipes for celery soup, or cream of celery soup.

Thanks!

Lara

My lot hate celery but love this soup. It's from Delia Smith's Cookery Course, part 2.

350g trimmed celery stalks, save the leaves
110g potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
2 medium sized leeks (whites only) sliced and washed
1pt (570ml) chicken stock
150ml single cream
150ml milk
1/4 teaspoon celery seeds (optional I don't always use)
25g butter
Salt & black pepper

In a largish pan melt the butter over a low heat. Chop the celery and add it to the pan with the potatoes and drained leeks. Sitr well, coating the veg with butter, cover with a lid and cook for about 15 mins.

Then add stock with the celery seeds and some salt. Bring to simmering point, cover once more and cook very gently for 20-25 mins or until the vegetables are really tender. Puree the soup by liquidising or sieving, then return to the pan, stirring in the cream and milk.

Bring the soup back to the boil, check the seasoning, adding more s&p if necessary. Just before serving, chop the reserved celery leaves and stir them in to the soup to give it extra colour.

I don't bother re the celery leaves and watch the salt - it can be too salty with the celery seeds and salt.

HTH

toozie_2

Here's another...

1oz Butter
1 head of celery cleaned and chopped
2 onions chopped
1 rasher bacon chopped
4oz cottage cheese
1/2 pint chiken stock
1/2 pint milk
salt & pepper
3oz single cream

Melt butter in saucepan, and gently fry onion, celery and bacon.

Stir in cottage cheese, stock, mik and s&p. Bring to the boil, and simmer for 30 mins. Puree in a blender.

Reheat, and add half the cream.
pour soup into bowls, and float remaining cream on top.


I use home-made defrosted chicken stock, from Sunday carcus, also have made it without cottage cheese, and hardly ever put in the cream.

Lovely with fresh bread from the bread maker!!

SnowyOwl_2

Thanks Toozie and Lara! I love celery soup so it's great to have a choice of receipe.

Lelly

Celeriac makes a really good soup (I only buy it when oops from asda) Chop about half into small chunks, also chop a medium potato, a carrot and an onion. With about a cup of water and two chicken stock cubes, put into a casserole dish and cook on full power in microwave for 10 mins. Whizz this up in a liquidiser or mash it, then add about half a pint of milk or water (you can cream this with coffee whitener if you like) you can add chopped parsleyand/or those delicate inner leaves of celery then heat it up and serve.
Celeriac is also lovely cooked and mashed up about half and half with potato.

squeaky

Lara wrote:

My lot hate celery but love this soup. It's from Delia Smith's Cookery Course, part 2.

350g trimmed celery stalks, save the leaves

ETC

Wonderful recipe. Thank you SO much.

nabowla

I was going to ask the same question as I've got a lot of celery left in the fridge! Thanks for the great recipes.

Ganyam

Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00

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2 Onions, peeled and chopped
2 Carrots, peeled and chopped
3 tb Olive oil
1 lg Head of celery
2 Potatoes, unpeeled, scrubbed
-- and diced
1 1/2 l Water (2 1/2 pints) (or duck
-- stock, chicken stock)
Sea salt
Black peppercorns
Fresh parsley, chopped

Soften the onions and carrots in the olive oil in a heavy, covered pan. Wash and scrape the celery sticks, split the main part of each one vertically and cut it into 2.5 cm (1 in) lengths. Stir the celery into the pan and leave it to steam-cook for 20-30 minutes over a low heat to bring out the flavour. Add the washed and diced potatoes, cover with the water, season with a little salt and a few black peppercorns, bring to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the chopped parsley and liquidize.

kiwichick

And another..........................

Curried Celery Soup
10ml/2tsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 leek, washed and sliced
675gm/1.5lbs celery, chopped
15ml/1tbsp medium or hot curry powder
225gm/8oz unpeeled potatoes, washedand diced
900ml/1.5 pints/3 3/4 cups veg stock
1 bouquet garni
30ml/2tbsp chpped fresh mixed herbs (I never have fresh so use dried)
salt

Heat oil in a large saucepan. Add onion, leek and celery, cover and cook for about 10 mins, stir occasionally.

Add curry powder and cook for a further 2 mins, stirring occansionally.

Add potatoes, stock and bouquet garni, cover and bring to the boil. Simmer for 20 mins until the veg is tender.

Remove and discard the bouquet garni and set the soup aside to cool slightly.

Puree until smooth, add mixed herbs and process briefly. Return to saucepan and reheat until piping hot then serve.


****For a change you can use celeriac and sweet potato in place of the celery and spuds****

SCRUMMY!

apple_mint

Apprentice Tycoon's Celery Soup is to die for. It's in the recipe thread here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com...soup#post661922

It's the eighth post down.

I always use her recipe. My OH doesn't really like celery but LOVES this soup. It's dead easy to make and also freezes well.

Highly recommended

crnflke

Sorry if this sounds like a daft question! I've got loads of celery lurking in the fridge. Can I make a soup out of this? How much would I need to feed two people? Also got an onion and stock cubes in the house, would I need anything else?

Cheers for any help.