celery should be soaked in clear water for 2 hours before cutting, and a little salt can be added to remove the residual pesticides. Then, the peel of celery should be removed with a sharp knife, and then it can be cut into large pieces, sliced and cut into diamonds. Here, the home-made cutting methods of celery are integrated and shared with you.
how to cut celery?
1. You need a celery, a sharp knife and a peeler.
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2 to peel off the stem of celery.
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3. Wash each stem with cold water and take out the dirt on it. Then cut off the white part of the stem head and take it for regeneration or throw it away.
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4. The skin of celery is sometimes difficult to swallow, especially when it is cut to a large size, the fibers on the skin will kill you. It's best to remove it with a peeler.
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5, and cut into large pieces: large pieces of celery are used in western food, usually for stewing soup or making sauce, and finally they will be filtered out. So just cut it into sections about 2.5-3 cm long with a knife.
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6. When cutting the trunk, stop where the celery begins to branch, and this piece can be kept for planting.
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7. Slice: When you need to dry fry or make salad, you can cut it into half-moon slices with a thickness of about .3-.5 cm.
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8. Slicing: Slicing the stem at a certain angle can make the slice look bigger. Inclined blade is suitable for stir-frying
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9. Dicing: cut the stem longitudinally with the tip of a knife, from the head to the leaves. For beginners, it is easier to cut this long stem into two or three sections and then cut it longitudinally.
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1 to continue splitting. Cut it several times vertically. The number of cuts determines the size of the final dice. Medium-sized dices are enough for cutting; Fine ones can be divided into four parts; Smaller, the stems can be divided into widths of about .2-.3cm.
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11. Turn the chopped stem of celery, pinch it, and cut it into small pieces horizontally.
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12. Cut into sections: celery sections are often used in salads or soups. First, you can cut the celery into four longitudinal sections like you want to dice it, and then cut it into 4-5 cm lengths horizontally.
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13. This is the celery we cut: cut into sections, diced, diced and sliced.
how to buy and store celery?
Buy celery fresh, of course. If you buy it in a vegetable market, you can find a bunch of leaves with roots attached to their heads, and the color is preferably green and clean, with a little yellow. Don't buy those with brown spots on their heads or those that look too old and fibrotic. Generally, I don't want to buy those packaged in sealed plastic bags, and there are often some stains inside. Many vegetable vendors in the vegetable market will spray some water on the head of celery, which looks crisp and watery and convenient to pick.
the bought celery will wither in the open air within a few days. A better way is to put it in a less sealed plastic bag, or wrap it in a fresh-keeping bag but make a few small holes with scissors or toothpicks, so as to keep the water and let the celery breathe. Next, put the celery in the fresh-keeping compartment of the refrigerator, which can last for a week or even longer. Those stems that look weak can be cut off, put in a glass of water with the incision facing down, and put in the refrigerator, and they will gradually recover fresh.
if you need to use celery leaves, choose those light yellow leaves that are closer to the stem, and the dark green leaves are bitter and old. These picked leaves can be filled with water and some ice cubes in a container, put in the leaves and stored in the refrigerator for later use. These green leaves taste great when added to vegetable salad.