# How to prepare celery

## The essentials

Celery is part of the base of bolognese and stews with onion and carrot. Raw, in sticks, it is crunchy. The leaves flavour a stock.

## Choosing it

Firm, snapping stalks, green leaves.

## Preparing it

Separate the stalks and wash them. On the big stalks, remove the strings with the peeler, pulling from top to bottom.

## Cutting it for the dish

- In small dice, for a sauce base or a soup.
- In sticks, for raw vegetables.
- Sliced, for a salad.

## How long it takes

Two minutes.

## Storing it

In the fridge, wrapped in foil or in a container, two weeks. The leaves go into a stock or a soup.

## Make it tonight

The grandma-style bolognese sauce: a celery stalk in small dice.

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