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35 Recipes that Feature Celery—from Toast to Cocktails

This vegetable is so much better than a crudité platter: Here are our favorite celery recipes.
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Zach DeSart

We love a good crudité platter, but why limit celery to ranch dressing? From a bracing gin tonic to a crunchy Thai salad, these are our favorite unexpected ways to cook with celery.

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    Celery Tonic

    "The herbal notes of gin pair well with celery in this refreshing cocktail—and bonus points for the cool green color." –Clai____re Saffitz, assistant food editor

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    Alex Lau
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    Kombu Celery

    The crunchy, salty, sesame-drenched celery sticks at Bar Goto in New York are so good, you’ll forget they’re made from vegetables.

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    Celery Caesar Salad

    We’re into the celery-on-celery concept, but you could make this with celery root alone and it would be great.

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    Zach DeSart
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    Thai Celery Salad with Peanuts

    Celery is the perfect vehicle for a salty, assertive dressing like this one. Chiles and peanuts make this dish that much more addictive. —Alison Roman, senior associate food editor

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    Alex Lau
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    Celery Caesar Salad

    Look for celery root that is firm—not spongy—at the bottom end.

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    Gentl & Hyers
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    Celery Slaw

    This celery slaw, along with blue cheese dressing, crumbled blue cheese, and hot sauce, helps make up the Buffalo Dog.

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Senior Associate Web Editor. When she’s not torturing herself by grinding coffee beans by hand and making her own butter, Rochelle writes about cooking techniques and seasonal eating for bonappetit.com. She comes to BA by way of a small farm in Central New York, where she worked as a farmhand ... Read More
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