Celery Leaves: Recipes for Pesto and Fritters

How to avoid wasting celery leaves. Pesto is excellent with fish. Fritters with a touch of pecorino cheese.

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fancy celery leaves without kitchen waste

What to do with the celery leavesThis vegetable is never missing from the fridge, we use it to prepare soups, to flavour various dishes and also for DIY recipes such as homemade vegetable stockCelery leaves are a healthy and light raw material for preparing delicious recipes: don't waste them!

Pesto with celery leaves

Excellent for seasoning pasta or filling crostini. Try it with steamed fish. It couldn't be easier!

  • Preparation time: 15 minutes
  • Cooking time: 5 minutes
  • Difficulty: Low

Ingredients for 4 people)

  • 100 g of celery leaves
  • 50 g of shelled almonds
  • 50 grams of parmesan cheese
  • a pinch of coarse salt
  • a splash of juice Lemon;
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste

Preparation

  • Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until you obtain a creamy mixture.

Fritters with celery leaves

Delicious as an appetizer or main course: one leads to another.

  • Preparation time: 10 minutes
  • Cooking time: 15 minutes
  • Difficulty: Low

Ingredients

  • 100 g of celery leaves
  • 5 tablespoons flour
  • water needed to obtain a thick but rather liquid batter
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 spoons of parmesan
  • 2 tablespoons of pecorino cheese
  • 1 egg
  • Seed oil for frying

Preparation

  • Clean the celery leaves and chop them roughly with scissors or a knife.
  • Separately prepare the batter with the flour, water, cheeses (if you prefer more delicate flavors, use only Parmesan, 5 tablespoons in total), the egg and salt.
  • Finally, add the celery leaves.
  • Remember that for a perfect result, the celery leaves must prevail in quantity compared to the batter, which should serve more as a "glue".
  • Fry the fritters (create them by taking spoonfuls of the mixture) in boiling seed oil.

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