Celery has been in our CSA bag a few times this past month – we used it just last month for Cream of Celery Soup (which was pretty amazing!)
I don’t mind celery but I’ll be honest and say it’s not my favorite food. I don’t go diving into the fridge to eat celery.. so it kind of sits there for a while. Ours sat for a week or so .. got limp, and then I got the bug to make soup with it for fellowship at church.
The best part about soup.. is that those that are at our church who can’t eat solids can slurp soup – so they always appreciate soup. Any and all .. they love, if it’s meatless, it’s better.
To plump up our celery again and give it a boost, we took it out of the fridge and cut the end off … we shoved the celery in a ball canning jar, filled halfway with water. We let it sit a few hours and it revived our celery and made it beautiful again.
We made the soup in our Instant Pot (which, by the way, was effortless…) and it made 5-6 cups of soup. Not only was it easy, it was well received: we came back from church with an empty Instant Pot – which signals to us that it was popular.
The recipe calls for Heavy Cream – we don’t usually buy Heavy Cream, but we DID make a trip to Costco a few days ago and we decided Heavy Cream was important enough to add to the cart – a 64 oz carton of Horizon Organic Heavy Cream is just $9.99 there – which is a bargain. We’ll put the rest to use in more recipes before it reaches it’s through date.
- 1 head of Celery - stalks chopped, but the leaves reserved for garnish
- 1 large Potato, peeled and chopped into large pieces
- 1 medium Onion, quartered
- 1/2 C. Butter, unsalted
- 3 C. Organic Chicken Broth
- 1/4 C. fresh Dill
- 1/2 C. Heavy Cream
- 1/2 tsp Coriander
- 1 tsp Salt (or more to taste)
- Optional: 5 drops Celery Seed Vitality Essential Oil
- Combine the celery, potato, onion and butter and put in the Instant Pot.
- Add 3 C. of Broth, and put the lid on the Instant Pot.
- Push Manual (high) for 9 minutes to cook the vegetables.
- Once it beeps, do a quick release, and puree (in a blender) the contents of the Instant Pot along with your dill - you might have to do it in batches.
- Once pureed, pour back in the Instant Pot.
- Add your heavy cream, salt and coriander, possibly more salt to taste.
- Serve garnished with a little pepper, sea salt, celery leaves and dill.
- While we used only organic ingredients in this soup, it's not required to do so.
Need to revive your celery? Check out this post here for some helpful tips. Did you know that Celery is one of the best Anti-Cancer Foods?
Hi Sheryl, is this recipe adaptable to do cream of mushroom soup? I’m tired of buying Campbell’s at the store and the Pacific brand has a lot of salt I think.
Hi Kristi, you can make your own cream of mushroom easily too. I always keep heavy cream in the fridge. I get the Horizon Organic at Costco, 64 oz is $9.99 (which is a great price). I use it over a 2-3 week period and it keeps fine.
You will need about a pound of fresh mushrooms, an onion, 1/4 c. butter, salt/pepper, 2 cloves of garlic, a quart of chicken broth (which you can get at Costco pretty cheap), a few Tbsp of Arrowroot powder (which is inexpensive to buy at any grocer or even on Amazon), and 1/2 C. Heavy Cream.
Put the butter, chopped mushrooms and garlic on the stove and saute, then sprinkle in the Arrowroot Powder, add the broth (it’ll thicken), then after about 10 minutes or so you can add the heavy cream. Or if you are dairy free use full fat Canned Coconut Milk as a sub.
Keep in a canning jar and refrigerate, use that instead. It’s really easy to whip up and you don’t have the canned version to worry about (which really isn’t too good for you anyways).
If you do not get Arrowroot Powder you can use regular flour too. We use Arrowroot Powder here in the house for body powder too… so it goes to use. We mix a cup of Arrowroot Powder with 10-15 drops of Essential oil and put in canisters in the bathroom for the kids, much safer than Baby Powder.
Hope that helps 🙂
Thank you! I will definitely try this! So is this a thick, “condensed” version similar to Campbell’s?
Sorry I didn’t see this sooner–I didn’t know a reply had been posted.
yes — just keep in the fridge 🙂
Thank you!
I’m making this as I type! 🙂 Can this be frozen? If not, how long will it last in the refrigerator?
hi Kristi,,, sorry I didn’t respond sooner! Had a baby this week so have been busy.
I haven’t tried freezing it (like I have with my other soups) but I did keep it in the fridge for a few days .. David usually takes the soups to work over the next few days and alternates them every other day.
Should last 4-5 days in the fridge, I keep my soups in Ball Canning Jars.
Congratulations on the birth of your baby! Hope we get to see pictures. And I hope you get a little down-time to rest!
I froze what was left of the cream of mushroom soup. We’ll see how it is when it defrosts and is reheated. I think it should be fine. It was delicious by the way. I made Beef Stroganoff with it!
Thanks Kristi 🙂 Rest would be nice but impossible with 4 other kids here. She’s a week old already, pretty crazy, time flies! 🙂 I’d love another, but I’m not sure he feels the same, we shall see.
Glad it turned out well for you.. I love Beef Stroganoff. My mom made it for us ALL the time as kids. One of my favorite meals! I’m the only one here who likes it so I never make it!
Hi Sheryl,
What selecting manual pressure, which pressure do I use?
Thanks!
High pressure is what I used.
I made this and it tastes delicious ! Howver, I found it had a lot of strings in it. Should I keep blending it . .or is this just how the soup is? Thanks!
No strings here – I’d keep blending it 🙂 My kids love it, but they would prob not eat it if it had lots of strings!
I have a very cheap blender from Walmart.. one day I’ll get a fancy blender, but I blended for several minutes.
Thank you Sheryl! I’ll be more patient and blend it some more. I was using an immersion blender. Maybe an actual blender would work better. Thanks again!
Oh gosh.. I don’t have one of those. I need to get one but it’s one of those things I keep putting off. I have an old Oster Blender from Walmart.. super old .. lost the little plug that goes in the top so I have to hold a towel over the top so it doesn’t splatter.
One day I will get one. I’ll probably ask you for your advice on which brand to buy 🙂