People in the consumption of celery leaves often discarded, only eating petiole, in fact, this is a great waste, according to nutritionists determine the 13 nutrients in the leaves have 10 indicators higher than the petiole.
Celery taste fragrant, sweet and cool, with the liver to clear heat, anti-inflammatory, stomach and blood, lowering blood pressure, sedation and other effects. Especially people with high blood pressure often consume celery has obvious therapeutic effect on lowering blood pressure. In addition, the content of cellulose in celery leaf stalks is higher than that of general vegetables. Although cellulose has no nutritional value to human body, but modern medicine has proved that cellulose can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, and facilitate some toxic waste material in the body to be discharged out of the body rapidly, and reduce the incidence of intestinal cancer. Therefore, nutritionists from the perspective of human health to fiber as the body's essential seventh major nutrition, namely sugar, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, water, fiber.
Celery is crisp and fragrant, rich in nutrients, easy to grow, not low benefit. Due to the dramatic increase in market demand, the expansion of cultivation area, the diversification of cultivation forms, celery has now reached the annual listing. With the increase of consumption, the edible method is also changing, at present, in addition to the traditional cold, fried food, soup food, making stuffing, pickling. Even the leaf stalks are pressed and the juice is processed to make a drink.
(1) cold: will be washed and cut into inch segments or thin slices of celery in boiling water, eight mature, with cold water, immediately fished out, the water control can be cold after drying, plus soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate as a condiment. You can also add seaweed and vermicelli according to your taste.
(2) fried food: fried celery is a very common practice. Meat fried that is the clean celery cut into inch long diagonal thin slices and meat green fried; vegetarian fried with seaweed, vermicelli, vermicelli, etc. fried.
(3) do soup: celery soup is to use it that fragrant smell, green color and crisp delicious, in the broth or egg soup with a little celery leaves or celery thinly sliced can increase the soup's fresh taste and palatability.
(4)Stuffing: celery leaf stalk chopped with pork, beef or mutton mixed into a stuffing, wrapped dumplings or buns flavorful and delicious.
(5) pickle: cut celery into inch segments into the pickle jar with the right amount of salt in the early winter season can be pickled into kimchi, take with the food, can be fried food can also be added to the sugar mix to eat, sweet and sour flavor.