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Celery Soup - Simple and Hearty
By
DK
on Jul 06, 2009
Celery Soup huh? For a person who neither liked soup nor celery, I sure seem to have come a long way! Having abhorred soup for the first 20 yrs of my life, it seems indeed surprising to me that I consume soup like there is no tomorrow now. Call it being mature, call it change of taste, call it whatever, I am glad that at last I seem to have arrived at the right place after all this while. I hated Celery, I still am not really ga-ga about it. I cant for the life of me eat it raw. Not even one Food Network Chef has managed to make me a lover even after all their usage of nocturnal adjectives. It has only lead to me to using them hidden amidst zillion other vegetables as an acknowledgment to their renown for being a negative calorie.
Having said the above, I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I actually liked this recipe for celery soup. I have this post in the drafts for 10 months now. I don't know why I kept it veiled. May be posting it would be like announcing to the world that I am finally ready to face the celery monster which would force me to be more committed, or may be I was still having step motherly feeling towards them..May be, may be not - whatever may be the "may be's", this post is finally here. The recipe is very easy and simple and does not take long.
Basic Information
Prep Time: Under 15 min
Cook Time: Under 30 min
Serves: 2 people
Ingredients
- 1 large onion
- Approx 6-7 stalks of celery, cleaned and chopped
- about 3 medium potatoes, diced
- 4 cups water/stock
- 1 tsp celery seeds
- 1 tbsp curry powder
- fresh herbs for garnish (optional)
- salt and pepper to taste
Method
1
In a tsp. of oil/butter, saute the onion along with celery seeds and curry powder.
2
Add celery and potatoes and saute some more for about 5 minutes with little salt.
3
Add the stock/water. Cover and cook until the vegetables are soft - about 10-15min.
4
Puree the vegetables smoothly in a blender
5
Pour it back into the saucepan, add herbs is using and pepper to taste.
Serve hot garnished with celery leaves.
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i make celery soup without the potatoes and find it just as delicious it it great for lowering my blood pressure
Dear DK, I simply love your methodoly for soup. This was exactly what I was expecting. There is no seiving of soup to get rid of pulp which has lot of fiber and using potatoes for thickening instead of traditional white flour with butter sauce. I tried your method using a can of crushed tomatoes, red bell pepper, , potatoe , onion and garlic. Seasoned the final soup witn cumin, pepper, parsley and basil. I guess one could be innovative about these herbs depending on flavour of choice. Thank you for posting such good low cal recipes.
Tried it and it tasted great.
Thanks Deepa for sending me the feedback. Appreciate it
-DK
I use celery very often in my cooking but I had never heard about celery soup until I tried it in one indian family’s house. I loved it! The grandma who cooked it said: oh, it is very simple – it’s just celery and potato! I couldn’t get more out of her (more details
.) so I began looking for recipes that sounded and looked as good as hers, I belive this one will do it. I am heading to kitchen to make it 
. Thank you for the recipe!
I hate celery but I like celery soup, I want to try the recipe .I have never heard of celery seeds.Can you tell me what are celery seeds and where di I get them ?
Soup looks delicious..
The soup looks so good:)Heard Celery is very good for Blood Pressure.
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looks delicious. i like celery. this seemed like an overdose when I read the ingredients…but the final outcome is a smooth flavoursome soup.
I have had a dislike of celery but I love it in soup as a background note – I tried it raw in salad a few weeks back and feel I might be coming around to it
I have never tried celery soup as yet, guess never liked it much, seems very healthy though, should try once!
I’ve got to give this a try.
I love celery but i used to prepare stew with celery leaves, never tried out as soups..looks really delicious DK!
Love the color of the soup Dhiv. looks vibrant!
Looks out of the world delicious!!!
Looks very colorful. I love the smell of celery and add it to the pungent smelling cabbage, cauliflower soups and some coconut milk also.
This looks grt!!
Although I have never used celery in cooking!
Want to try now!
I too have seen celery soup in the canned soup section but have not tried it. I’m neither a hater nor a lover of celery. I just add a stalk or two in my regular soups. My mother once mentioned that Mallika Badrinath made celery pulav in her cooking show. Can’t guess how it would taste!
Haha.. maybe the taste of potatoes overshadowed the taste of celery and hence you liked it? I hate celery too..
May be , may be not
But I had the celery leaves to remind me of exactly what I am eating(!!!). How good is that 
I thnk I should try this DK, I can only tolerate celery with Laughing cow cheese