How to cook celery for winter - recipes

But celery is extremely desirable to eat and in the winter months, when the body particularly needs nutrients. Therefore, it is best to prepare it for the winter on your own.

If you are the owner of a summer cottage or a privateat home, it will not be out of place to learn how to store this useful plant (both root and greens) in the winter. Celery, no matter how much it grows on the site, there is always an application: it is preserving tomatoes, and adding greens to soups, and the use of frozen root vegetables in various dishes.

Leaves and roots can be stored as long as desired in a fresh form, using then in salads as an ornament or seasoning.

Selection of root vegetables in the market and storage in the refrigerator

If you buy root crops in a supermarketor on the market, then carefully watch that the roots have a smooth and fairly even skin, and the surface was not knotty - in this case, the roots are much easier to clean. If you tap on the spine, you can hear a sonorous sound - it speaks about the voids inside the root.

Push the top of the celery root tomake sure he is not rotten. In the case when you are going to use the root of celery in the very near future after the purchase, for example, during the week, you can simply wrap it with food film and store it all in the refrigerator - so the celery will retain to its fullest its special flavor, spicy taste and, that is important, useful substances.

Harvesting of root celery for the winter

When it's time to collect a crop of celery,cut off all the leaves from it, while leaving small petioles. Thoroughly rinse the roots in cold water, peel the top layer of the skin and cut into strips: long roots can be cut along the layer, and small, on the contrary, across.

Dry in the sun or in a warm place, preferably well ventilated. The celery is stored in this way in a glass container with a closed lid.

Recipes for long-term storage of roots

For longer storage of root crops, there are special tricks:

• Take plastic bags or boxes of woodwith solid walls, put in them root crops, top with a sand of centimeter to 2-3, and then put the boxes or bags in a cool place. It is important that the temperature in the storage does not exceed +1 degree, and the humidity is high enough (up to 90%).


• Stab the roots vertically in the sand, while the petioles should protrude to the surface, and then store in this form in a dark cool place (cellar).


• Make a mass of clay creamy in density, all celery roots dipped in clay, slightly dried and stacked in a cool place.

How to prepare leaf celery for winter

• The simplest method of harvesting is drying. Leaves must be tied into bundles, weighed in the room, dried in this way, and after the drying is done, make the powder green. The seasoning is perfect for soups and sauces.


• Choose good fresh leaves, carefullywashed, dried and finely chopped. After that, mix them with salt (for 1 kg of leaves about 200 g of salt) and put in jars. As soon as the juice begins to act on the surface, we put the jars on the lids and put them in a dark cool room.


• If you really want to keep the leaves green and fragrant until the winter months, in that case, freeze them in special ice molds and store in the freezer.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko