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Easy Esselstyn Diet Recipes with Pictures: Celery Green Soup
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Celery Green Soup |
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Soup
Easy to make, enjoyable and satisfying what is the
most a great soup can offer. It serves well for lunch as well as for dinner,
is light and filling at the same time. Celery greens are abundantly available
in late summer and should not be overlooked. |
Served
Celery has a distinct mild flavor in its stalks and leaves. This simple soup presents this wonderful flavor in its natural state just augmented with a mild fruitiness of white wine and fresh thyme. It will win over any one enjoying the diversity of vegetable greens. |
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Get in Advance: 2 large bunches celery tops 1 large onion, chopped 2 medium all-purpose potatoes, peeled (or unpeeled new potatoes), cut into ¼ in cubes 1 bunch of thyme springs ½ cup of white wine 1 quarter teaspoon black pepper 4 ½ cups of low salt vegetable broth Have On Hand: crisp bread |
Ingredients
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Recipe (Adapted from and expanded to low-salt, low-fat (Esselstyn Plant Diet) from recipe #2544 at thedailygreen,com): For 2 (generous)-to 3 portions. Prep time 1 hour. Cut the
vegetables Chop the onion, cut the cleaned and peeled potatoes Trim end from celery stalks, wash thoroughly, remove damaged leaves and reserve some nice looking ones for garnish. Chop stalks into ½ - 1 inch pieces and cut leaves crosswise into 1 x 1 inch pieces Cook vegetables In large hot soup skillet braise onions without oil until browned for 5 min Deglaze with ½ cup of vegetable broth Add celery, thyme and pepper Stew 25 – 30 min until celery stalks are soft stirring occasionally and replenishing broth if necessary Add wine and cook for 2 more min until wine is mostly evaporated Add 4 cups of broth and potatoes. Bring to boil and simmer 25 min until potatoes are very tender. Remove thyme stems Puree Soup and Serve Use hand blender to puree soup to finely grained consistency. Serve garnished with some celery leaves |
Workplace Chopping
the onions
Cutting the potatoes
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Cutting the cleaned celery greens
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Readied for cooking the soup
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Adding to braised onions the greens
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Stewed greens
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Added broth and
potatoes
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Pureeing
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Prepared
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Klaus I was so
surprised by the tender richness of the celery flavor of this simple soup, that
I could not resist to add a creamy base with tofu sweet cream (Deserts,
Snacks & Others: 014 Tofu Whipped Cream, using 7.5 oz of tofu but only 1
tablespoon of confectioned sugar and making 1 cup of cream). This creamy
Celery Leave Soup version is utmost delightful since the slight sweetness of
the cream supported so well the fruitiness from the wine. It elevated the
soup to a full dinner course. |
The pepared regular celery green soup
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1 cup of tofu cream added
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Prepared
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Served
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Klaus The
celery greens and bulbs were harvested in late fall covered by snow. It was
slightly bitter so I added tofu sweet cream which preserved the delicate
celery flavor. Pureed in Food Processor. |
Soup
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Served
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