APPLE CELERY SOUP
Apple Celery Soup is easy to make, healthy, comforting, delicious home made soup. Ideal way to include celery in your diet.
Ingredients
- 200 g apples cored and chopped
- 200 g celery stalks chopped
- 1 medium potato peeled and chopped
- 1 medium onion peeled and chopped
- 3-4 cloves garlic peeled and sliced
- 1 inch ginger peeled and chopped
- ½ cup celery leaves chopped
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- 3 cups vegetable stock or water
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
Instructions
- Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add chopped onion garlic and ginger. Saute till the onion becomes soft.
- Add celery, apples and potato. Mix well.
- Cover the pan and allow the mixture to cook or sweat for 5 minutes over low heat.
- Add the stock or water. Simmer the mixture till the potato and celery stalks are cooked.
- Allow the mixture to cool a bit. Add celery leaves.
- Puree or blend the mixture in a food processor.
- Pass the liquid through a sieve. This will help to catch any celery fibres or strings.
- Return the soup to the saucepan.
- Add salt, pepper, turmeric powder and lemon juice.
- Heat the soup gently and NOT to a rolling boil.
- Serve hot soup with your favourite bread and lemon slices.
Notes
- Use tender fresh celery leaves.
- Use any apples of your choice.
- Wash celery stalks properly before chopping and cooking.
- If you get organic apples then you don't need to peel them.