Best Celery Toasts Recipes

CREAM OF CELERY SOUP AND DEVILED-HAM TOASTS

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Heads up: Save 3 to 4 cups of this soup, once it is prepared, for a casserole dish for later in the week. (You will still yield 4 to 6 servings for this meal on top of that.)

Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network

Categories main-dish

Time 4h

Yield 4 to 6 servings (plus 3 to 4 cups to reserve for Broccoli Casserole)

Number Of Ingredients 33

Ingredients

2 full bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts
2 carrots, coarsely chopped
2 ribs celery
1 onion, quartered, root end attached
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 lemon, sliced
Bundle of parsley, thyme, fresh bay leaf
A few black peppercorns
Salt
1/2 stick butter (4 tablespoons), diced
1 bunch organic celery with leafy tops, chopped (6 cups)
2 onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
Celery salt
Black pepper
1 large fresh bay leaf
2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 medium celery roots (celeriac), peeled and cubed
6 cups chicken stock, homemade or store-bought
2 cups heavy whipping cream
Deviled-Ham Toasts, recipe follows
1/2 pound prosciutto cotto or boiled ham, coarsely chopped
2 small ribs celery from the heart of the stalk, with leafy tops, coarsely chopped
1 Fresno chile pepper, coarsely chopped (seed it if you don't want it to be too spicy; I leave the seeds in)
1/2 small red onion, coarsely chopped
A small handful flat-leaf parsley leaves
2 small cloves garlic, grated or pasted
3 tablespoons yellow mustard, such as French's
2 rounded tablespoons pickle relish
2 teaspoons hot sauce, such as Frank's Red Hot
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
Rachael Ray brand Everyday Seasoning 24/7 or coarse black pepper, to taste
Toasted white bread or lower-sodium saltines

Steps:

For the poached chicken stock: Place the chicken, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, lemon, herb bundle, peppercorns and salt in a pot, cover with water and bring to a low boil. Reduce heat to simmer and simmer for 1 hour minimum. Cool the chicken in the broth. Remove the chicken and cool. Separate the meat and pull or chop into bite-size pieces. Reserve for another use. The chicken can be stored in plastic bag in the fridge for 4 days. Strain the stock and reserve for soup.
For the soup: Heat a soup pot over medium heat. Melt the butter and when it begins to foam, add the celery, onions and garlic; season with celery salt and pepper. Add the fresh bay leaf to the pot, partially cover, and cook until very tender and soft, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add the potatoes, celeriac and stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a low rolling boil and simmer, partially covered, for another 20 minutes, then puree with an immersion blender. Cool the soup and store for a make-ahead meal.
Place the soup in a stockpot and stir in the cream. Bring to simmer and taste to adjust seasoning. Serve in shallow bowls with Deviled-Ham Toasts alongside.
Combine the prosciutto, celery, Fresno chile pepper, red onion, parsley, garlic, mustard, pickle relish, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and seasoning in a food processor and pulse until it's very, very finely chopped and well combined, almost smooth. Deviled ham stores well in the fridge for 4 to 5 days. Spread deviled ham on the toast and cut into toast points, corner to corner, or serve with saltines.

CELERY BISQUE WITH STILTON TOASTS

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Categories Soup/Stew Potato Vegetable Blue Cheese Celery Bon Appétit

Yield Makes 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
4 cups sliced celery (about 8 stalks)
1 1/2 cups chopped leeks (white and pale green parts only; from 2 medium)
3/4 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, diced
4 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
1/3 cup plus additional crème fraîche
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Chopped fresh parsley (optional)
Stilton Toasts

Steps:

Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add celery and leeks. Sauté until celery is slightly softened, about 4 minutes. Add potatoes and 4 cups broth. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer, uncovered, until all vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes. Working in batches, puree soup in blender until smooth. Return to same pot. Whisk in 1/3 cup crème fraîche and cayenne pepper. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cool, then cover and refrigerate. Rewarm over medium heat before serving, adding more broth to thin if desired.)
Ladle soup into bowls. Swirl 1 to 2 teaspoons additional crème fraîche into each. Sprinkle with parsley, if desired. Serve with Stilton Toasts.

CELERY TOASTS

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This was the first recipe that the chef and writer Gabrielle Hamilton brought to The Times as an Eat columnist for the Sunday magazine in 2016, a snack-tray-sandwich version of a celery-and-fennel salad served at her restaurant, Prune, in the East Village. It calls for thick, white toasted Pullman bread spread wall to wall with unsalted butter, with slices of blue cheese neatly laid on top, below a mound of shaved celery and thinly sliced scallions dressed in garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and salt, and the whole shebang dusted in ground black pepper before being cut in halves or quarters. "The ingredients come from the grocery store," she wrote in her column. "These toasts are not expensive or intimidating, but they are outstanding."

Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton

Categories finger foods, appetizer

Time 12m

Yield 2 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

2 slices country white Pullman bread, 1/2-inch thick
Sweet butter
4 ounces Cambozola triple-cream blue cheese, sliced, divided evenly between two toasts
1 cup shaved celery, from the inner head, toughest outer stalks removed, thinly sliced on the bias
2 scallions, thinly sliced on bias all the way up from the white through the green
1 large clove garlic
Extra-virgin olive oil
Lemon juice
Kosher salt
Several grinds black pepper

Steps:

Toast the bread to golden. Butter generously, "wall to wall." Lay cheese slices on top of buttered toast, neatly, evenly.
In a small bowl, stir together the celery and the scallions. Microplane the garlic into the celery mixture.
Dress with olive oil, lemon juice and salt, and stir very well, until completely dressed, almost wet with dressing.
Mound the shaved celery salad evenly on top of the blue-cheese toasts, and grind black pepper over them very generously. Cut each in half or quarters.

JAMIE KENNEDY'S CELERY ROOT SOUP WITH BLUE CHEESE TOASTS

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Categories Soup/Stew Vegetable Sauté

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 Spanish onion, roughly chopped
1 potato peeled and roughly chopped
2 tbsp. butter
2 celery roots, peeled and roughly chopped
10 cups tomato consommé
salt and pepper to taste
garnish
2 slices white bread,crusts, removed
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 tbsp. finely chopped chives

Steps:

Gently sauté the onion and potato in butter in a soup pot. After 5 minutes, add the celery root and consommé or stock. Bring to a boil Simmer for 40 minutes until celery root is very tender. Puree in a food processor or blender and then pass through a sieve. Return soup to pot and keep at a simmer. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Preheat oven to 275 and cut bread into 6 squares or triangles. Place pieces of bread on baking sheet and toast in oven till golden brown. Carefully place crumbled cheese on bread and return to oven until cheese is melted. Serve soup in warm bowls. Place one crouton in each soup Sprinkle with chives.

CELERY, HAM AND CHEESE TOASTS

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These lovely open-faced sandwiches take celery from bit player to main stage. We boil it briefly to make it crisp-tender and bright green before piling it on toast and broiling it under a creamy topping of ham and cheese. The toasts make a lovely brunch dish (with Bloody Marys all around), or a light lunch served with a vinegary green salad.

Provided by Cooking Channel

Time 30m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

Ingredients

4 thick slices country white bread (about 3/4-inch thick)
Kosher salt
1/2 cup mayonnaise
3 ounces Gruyere cheese, coarsely grated
2 ounces thinly sliced Black Forest ham (about 1/8-inch thick), coarsely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper
1 bunch celery

Steps:

Position a rack 6 inches from the broiler and preheat to high. Toast the bread to a light golden-brown. Bring a medium pot of salted water to a boil.
In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, cheese and ham; season with pepper.
Trim off the tops and bottoms of 8 outer stalks of celery. Peel the stalks. Cut the stalks crosswise into 3 equal pieces (just about the length of the bread). Halve each piece lengthwise, if necessary, so each celery piece is about 1/2-inch wide. Tear a few of the light green leaves from the heart and reserve. Add the celery pieces to the boiling water and cook until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Drain and pat dry.
Put the toasts on a baking sheet. Divide the celery among the toasts. Dollop the mayonnaise mixture on top and spread gently to cover most of the celery (the sandwiches look pretty with a bit of green showing at the edges). Broil until the cheese is brown and bubbly, about 2 minutes. Transfer the toasts to plates, garnish with the reserved celery leaves and serve.