Celery Almandine Food

CARROT 'N' CELERY AMANDINE

Steps:

• In a large nonstick skillet, saute garlic in oil for 1 minute or until tender. Stir in the water, soy sauce and sugar. Bring to a boil. Add carrots, onion and celery; cook until crisp-tender. Sprinkle with almonds.

CELERY ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Saute the almonds in 1 Tbsp butter till light brown. Drain on paper towels and set aside.
• Melt 3 Tbsp butter in large skillet. Over low heat, add garlic, celery and onions. Saute gently, stirring often. Cook until celery is tender-crisp.
• Top with almonds and serve.
• If you like cream cheese with your celery & don't mind a few zillion extra calories, try this sauce:.
• Melt 6 Tbsp cream cheese with 6 Tbsp milk till hot & creamy. Pour over celery and top with toated almonds.

CELERY SOUP AMANDINE

Steps:

• Wash and chop the celery, removing any tough stringy parts.
• Melt the butter in a heavy-based saucepan, shaking the pan occasionally. Season and pour on the chicken stock. Add the parsley.
• Bring to simmering point, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until celery is quite tender.
• Add the milk. Use a a hand blender to purée.
• Sieve afterwards to remove any fibres.
• Heat a heavy-based frying pan for minute over moderate heat. Pop in the flaked almonds and toast them for about a minute until brown, shaking the pan to keep them turning.
• Return soup to the saucepan and reheat gently. Pour into soup bowls and dribble a spoonful of cream into each one. Garnish with the browned almonds.

PORK CHOPS WITH CELERY AND ALMOND SALAD

Steps:

• Combine cranberries and vinegar in a small bowl and set aside.
• Season pork generously with salt, then rub with 1 Tbsp. oil total. Heat a dry medium skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium. Cook pork chops, moving once or twice to hotter areas of skillet, until first side is deeply browned, 6-9 minutes. Turn pork chops and cook until second sides are browned, about 5 minutes. Working one at a time, set chops on fatty side with tongs to melt and brown fat cap, about 1 minute each. At this point an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of each chop should register 135°F.
• Add thyme, garlic, and butter to skillet and swirl to melt butter. Tilt skillet toward you so butter pools in the pan and spoon foaming butter over chops continuously until butter is browned, about 1 minute. Transfer pork chops, thyme, and garlic to a cutting board and let meat rest while you assemble the salad.
• Combine shallot and a couple of pinches of salt in a large bowl. Pour vinegar from reserved cranberries into bowl. Whisking constantly, gradually add remaining 3 Tbsp. oil. Add cranberries, celery, parsley, almonds, Parmesan, and several pinches of salt; toss to combine.
• Cut along bones to remove meat from pork chops; slice meat 1/2" thick. Transfer meat and bones to a platter along with garlic and thyme, then drizzle any accumulated juices left on cutting board over top. Serve with salad.