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How to Make & Use Celery Salt

Looking for a way to savor your garden’s celery harvest all year round? Transform your extra stalks into homemade celery salt! This simple yet flavorful seasoning captures the fresh essence of celery, allowing you to enhance your favorite dishes anytime. While fresh celery might not always be in season, this delightful salt ensures its unique taste is always at your fingertips.

Celery salt is an easy, flavorful blend of ground celery seeds and salt that elevates everything from meat marinades to roasted veggies. Learn how to make your own at home with simple steps and tips for using it in soups, dressings, snacks, and more.

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Why Make Your Own Celery Salt?

• Flavor: If you’ve ever grown celery, you know that homegrown celery has a much more robust flavor than grocery store celery. Commercially grown celery is typically blanched to lighten and mellow the flavor. Blanching also reduces the nutritional value. I’ve come to love the flavor of homegrown celery and want to add it to my cooking all throughout the year, not just during celery season. See my growing guide to learn how to grow celery.
• Color: Freeze-dried celery retains its bright green color and freshness.
• Quality Salt: Use your favorite type of salt (such as sea salt or Himalayan pink salt) rather than the typical iodized salt commonly used in commercial celery salt blends.
• It’s economical: Although it packs in the flavor, the cost is minimal, especially compared to a small jar of a similar product.
• Makes an excellent & economical gift.

How to Make Celery Salt

The easiest way to make homemade celery salt is with freeze-dried or dehydrated celery. 

• Freeze dry or dehydrate celery (leaves are also tasty for this).
• Grind the dried celery into a powder.
• Combine the celery powder with salt. The celery powder-to-salt ratio should be 4 parts celery to 1 part salt. For example, if you use one cup of celery flakes, you need 1/4 cup salt. You can use regular table salt or choose something more flavorful, like sea salt or Himalayan pink salt. 
• Mix well, then transfer the mixture into an airtight jar and store it in a cool, dark place for up to 6 months.

New to freeze drying? This article shares tips for getting started.

Using Your Celery Salt

Celery salt adds a unique flavor and depth of taste to almost any dish. Sprinkle it over salads, meats, and vegetables for an extra punch of flavor.

You can also use it as an ingredient in marinades and dressings—it goes exceptionally well with vinaigrettes! 

Storing Celery Salt

To keep your homemade salt fresh and flavorful for as long as possible, store it in an airtight container away from direct sunlight and moisture. Ensure the lid is sealed tightly after each use so no moisture can get inside the container.

If stored properly in a cool, dry place such as a pantry shelf or kitchen cabinet, your homemade blend should last at least one year (or more!) before losing its flavor and aroma.

Making homemade celery salt is easy and rewarding! Using freeze-dried or dehydrated celery makes the process even simpler—all you have to do is grind up the flakes and mix them with some quality sea salts for maximum flavor impact!

Store properly and enjoy using this unique blend. I hope you’ll give it a try. 

How to Make Celery Salt

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Celery salt is an easy, flavorful blend of ground celery seeds and salt that elevates everything from meat marinades to roasted veggies. Learn how to make your own at home with simple steps and tips for using it in soups, dressings, snacks, and more.

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Course: Meal Prep, Seasoning

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• Celery
• Salt table, Himalayan pink, or sea salt work well

Equipment

• Freeze Dryer
• Food Dehydrator
• Blender
• Spice Grinder

Method

 

Prepare Your Celery:

1. Prepare the celery by washing and thoroughly drying the stalks and leaves.
   

Process Your Celery:

1. Freeze Dry: This is my favorite method. Cut the stalks and leaves into uniform pieces. Follow your machine’s instructions to process them. Make sure they are completely dry and easily snap in half.
   
2. Dehydrating: You can also use a dehydrator to dry your celery, however it can remove some of the nutritional value of the vegetable.
   
3. Oven: If you don’t have access to a dehydrator or freeze-dryer, you can spread the celery out on a pan and cook it on the lowest temperature setting until it is completely dried out.
   

Assemble Your Celery Salt:

1. Turn the dried celery into a powder by pulsing it in the blender or using a spice grinder.
   
2. Combine the celery powder with salt by using the ratio 4 parts celery to 1 part salt. The celery powder-to-salt ratio should be 4 parts celery to 1 part salt. For example, if you use one cup of celery flakes, you need 1/4 cup salt.
   
3. Mix well, then transfer the mixture into an airtight jar and store it in a cool, dark place for up to 6 months.
   

Notes

• Celery leaves and stalks process differently so make sure to keep them on separate pans when drying.
• Salt: You can use regular table salt or choose something more flavorful, like sea salt or Himalayan pink salt.

 

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