Petiole or stem celery is used in cooking to cook fresh salads, appetizers, side dishes. The popularity of this vegetable plant is due to its benefits to the human body. The article contains information on how to harvest a healthy vegetable for the winter at home so that it retains the maximum amount of valuable elements.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Good and tasty preparations will be obtained if quality ingredients are selected. Celery for pickling and freezing, you need to choose fresh, crispy, without the presence of spots, rot.
Before preparing a vegetable, it should be washed well, dried and cut into small pieces.
Recipes for harvesting petiole celery for the winter
The simplest and fastest ways to harvest a vegetable plant for the winter are: pickling, canning and freezing.
A vegetable prepared according to such recipes can be added to first courses, salads, served with barbecue and meat on the grill, seasoned with various sauces and eat as an independent dish.Did you know? In ancient times, celery was not only eaten, but also used for decoration. In the tomb of Tutankhamun a shroud was found, decorated with garlands from various plants, including celery leaves.
Classic pickling recipe
2 cans of 0.5 l each 1.5 hours
petiole celery
400 g
coriander (seeds)
1 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash, peel and cut along the onion.
- Place vinegar, onion, laurel, spices, 150 ml of water, salt in a pan.
- Boil the marinade, cook for 5 minutes.
- Wash the celery stalks, cut into pieces of 5 cm.
- Put the vegetable in a pot with marinade.
- Keep on fire until the liquid boils.
- Close the lid.
- Cook for 10 minutes.
- Remove the vegetable from the marinade.
- Put it in jars.
- Add olives.
- Strain the marinade and bring it to a boil.
- Pour into jars.
- Roll containers with lids.
Important! Pickled celery can be served to the table, seasoned with olive oil and pepper.
Canning
5 cans of 1 liter 60–90 min.
petiole celery
1,5 kg
acetic acid (70%)
1 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Prepare the brine: put salt and sugar in boiling water, cook until the components are completely dissolved.
- After cooling, add vinegar.
- Wash the celery stalks, cut into 1-2 cm slices and dry.
- At the bottom of each sterile jar, lay 3 garlic cloves and 1 bay leaf.
- Celery petioles placed in containers.
- Pour in the brine.
- Cover the jars with lids and place in a large bowl with boiling water for sterilization.
- After 35 minutes remove the container.
- Roll up with sterile caps.
- Turn the cans upside down.
- Wrap with a blanket or plaid.
- After cooling, move to storage.
Did you know? Even the ancient Romans drew attention to the fact that celery leaves, petioles and roots positively affect sexual health and prepared “drinks of love” from it. Centuries later, scientists were able to detect pheromone androsterone in a plant culture, secreted by male sweat glands in order to attract the fair sex.
Freezing
1 kg 3-4 hours
petiole celery
1 kg
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash and dry the plant.
- Clean hard threads and hard areas.
- Depending on the purpose for which the stems are harvested, they can be frozen whole or cut into pieces of various sizes.
- Blanch the stems for 2-3 minutes.
- Fold in a colander and quickly place in ice water.
- Remove celery from water and drain.
- Place the pieces on a horizontal surface covered with a towel, for 1 hour - to dry.
- Move the vegetable to a cutting board and lay it in one layer, excluding the contact of the pieces.
- Cover the raw material with cling film and place in a freezer with a temperature of –18 ° С.
- After 2-3 hours, remove the frozen product, put it in vacuum bags, or in plastic containers and place the packaged vegetable in the freezer.
Home storage
Pickled celery should be stored in a refrigerator in closed containers for 2 months. Storage of canned product should be carried out at a temperature of 0 ° C to + 20 ° C and air humidity of 75%, in the absence of sunlight. The maximum shelf life is 2 years.
Frozen product is suitable for consumption for 10-12 months. It is stored at a temperature of –18 ° С.Important! Frozen celery cannot be re-frozen. After thawing it must be consumed on the same day.
So, in order to preserve petiole celery for the winter, it can be pickled, canned or frozen. Winter preparation is quick and easy. The recipes in the review are available to everyone.
