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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Let's Preserve Some Celery!

We don't eat a lot of celery but I do like to keep it on hand for cooking purposes.  Recently, I purchased one bunch (on sale, of course) and brought it home.  It set in the refrigerator for a few days and I knew I needed to do something with it before it starting ruining. There was no way we would use that much celery at one time so I decided to preserve it.

I wash it and removed all the leaves and set them aside.

Next, I cut the stalks into approximately an inch and a half lengths.

After that I got out my food chopper and chopped it all up into approximately 1/4 inch cubes.



I removed about a cup of the chopped celery and added it to the celery leaves I had sat aside earlier.

I divided the rest of it up into 1/4 cup increments, put that amount in plastic snack baggies and then put the snack baggies into a quart size freezer bag.


I labeled two quart freezer bags, filled them with 6 snack baggies each and added them to the freezer part of my pantry.  I'll use these in soups and casseroles.

The celery leaves and cubes I sat aside earlier will be dehydrated and turned into celery salt.    The ratio to make celery salt is one part dry celery powder to one part salt.  I think I'll use less salt when making mine.  I'll use this in recipes that call for celery powder or celery salt.

What about you, how do you preserve celery?

patsi

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