If you never made cream of celery root soup, you are in for a big surprise.
This simple soup is easy to make, contains only 5 simple ingredients, and yet has that look of sophisticated elegance that is sure to impress even the most discriminating guests. (For even easier version, check out this raw celeriac apple soup version that I tried recently). It can be served during holidays and other special occasions.
It is also a perfect comfort soup for the cold winter days.
You will literally not believe that this soup has no dairy, because it looks like a big bowl of heavy cream. It looks rich and creamy, and yet has no saturated fats, no cholesterol, and is low in calories.
One cup celeriac, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt (155g) has only 42 calories.
This recipe is completely dairy free, lactose free, and wheat free.
The secret to the delicious creaminess is…cashews.
Throwing in some diced apples to garnish the soup at the end adds a surprising tartness, plus a dash of dill gives it dramatic finish.
Creamy Celeriac Soup with Granny Smith Apple
Ingredients
- 2 medium celery roots, peeled and cut into pieces
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (optional)
- ½ cups raw cashews (2 ounces)
- 8 cups water or vegetable stock
- Salt and pepper to taste
For Garnish
- 1 tart apple, such as Granny Smith, not peeled, very finely diced
- A dash of dill
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Instructions
- In a large pot, sauté the celery root, celery, and onion in olive oil until soft. If you want to skip oil, add a few tablespoons water and sauté the vegetables for 5-10 minutes. Add liquid and simmer for 30 minutes.
- In a blender, add 1 cup liquid and cashews and blend on high for 30 seconds, until very smooth. Pour into the pot with the soup and simmer for a few more minutes.
- Working in batches, pour the soup into a blender, cover the lid tightly (the hot liquid tends to erupt), and blend on high.
- Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour into soup bowls and decorate with the diced apple in the center. Enjoy!
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Silky smooth and with a crunchy apple topping, this seductive soup packs a range of flavors — earthy, creamy, and tart-sweet.
Cream of Celery Root Calories:
Celery root (approx. 4 cups): 148 calories
2 ounces cashews (56g): 300 calories
1 large onion (150g) = 60 calories
2 stalks of celery, cooked (74g) = 14 calories
1 medium apple (182g) = 95 calories
Total Calories: 617/6 = 103 calories per serving
Celery Root (Celeriac): I bet you don’t use this veggie in your cooking very often.
This soup is a perfect excuse to use one of the most unappreciated veggies: celeriac root.
I used to make this soup with a potato, which is a great way to add some creaminess to the soup. I was never a heavy heavy cream user, so I usually would skip that ingredient or just add a bit of milk.
Since I became vegan, I’m experimenting with various substitutes of animal products and reading tons of cookbooks for inspiration on how to transform conventional dishes that I love into delicious dishes that are also full of compassion.
The Secret to Creamy Soup Without Dairy or Wheat
Most conventional creamy soup recipes call for heavy cream, half-and-half, butter and/or flour.
I found this recipe in “The Conscious Cook” cookbook by Tal Ronnen. It inspired me to use cashews, instead of heavy cream, to add that amazing creaminess to the soup, and it works amazingly well. Since I read about it a few weeks ago, I’ve been using cashews in various soup recipes, and they really are a fabulous ingredient.
Cream of Celery Soup (Celeriac Soup): I swear it will look like a bowl of heavy cream!
I think you could still use one medium potato as a substitute for cashews if you want to save money or reduce calories even further. I will try it next time to compare and let you know. I bet the texture will be slightly different, and it may not have the same level of sophistication when you explain the ingredients to your guests ;-).
Cream of Celery Soup (Celeriac Soup)
For all my blending recipes I use Vitamix. If you don’t already own a VitaMix, I strongly encourage you to check out what this machine is capable of! For more information about VitaMix you can go directly to the VitaMix website. You may also want to read my post about the Best Blender.
I LOVE my VitaMix and highly recommend investing in one if you are ready to make serious changes to your diet. I have had mine for almost 5 years and use it daily!
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The Making of Cream of Celery Soup: Inside of my Vitamix
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According to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, diets don’t work, because people who are already nutritionally deficient, when they cut back on calories, they become even more nutritionally deficient. As a result, their body develops a series of cravings and sensations that drives them to overeat preventing them from successfully losing weight.
Until the food addiction is addressed and removed, people cannot comfortably eat less calories. Since they desire MORE calories, not LESS, to tell them to eat less food is like telling a person to breathe less oxygen for five minutes – they’ll soon be gasping for air.
Today you can listen to Dr. Fuhrman speaking on the Food Revolution Summit here.
Dr. Fuhrman TODAY on the Food Revolution Summit
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Why Diets Don’t Work: Nutritional Quality, Food Addictions & Weight Loss
Without attention to nutritional quality, nutritional density, and nutritional completeness, you build up toxins in your body and as the level of toxins increases in the cells, it’s as if you were smoking cigarettes or snorting cocaine – you become addicted to those toxins that come from improper nourishment to the body.
Here is how it works: When you try to eat less or stop eating, you feel shaky and weak, because your body goes into a stage of detoxification or cleansing. The more toxic you are, them more shaky and weak you will feel. You may get headaches, stomach cramps, etc. Eating food relieves these sensations, because eating stops the detox. So you have to keep eating just to feel okay. It becomes a vicious circle.
Until you understand the powerful addictive nature of conventional food – of processed foods, junk foods, and concentrated animal products – and the consequences of not eating enough of the plant foods: fruits, vegetables, beans, mushrooms, nuts and seeds – and not getting the phyto-chemicals and antioxidants that the body needs – you are setting yourself up for failure.
Not knowing these simple facts sets people for weight gain and makes it impossible to lose weight or have a long and healthy life.
The point is nutritional quality does matter, it’s not just about the amount you eat, it’s not just about calories.
Certain foods have powerful effects that make you lose weight irrespective of the calories consumed.
2000 calories for some person can cause a person to become heavy, and 2000 different calories in different person can cause them to become thin, based on the factors in the foods, especially the factors in foods such as greens, mushrooms and onions, that make it difficult for the body to store fat.
Basically it’s a whole biological system that gives us the instinctual connectivity between the amount of calories we need and how much we enjoy eating that works. It works and it makes people desire and enjoy the food they require and no more. We shouldn’t desire to be 180 pounds, or 220 pounds. We shouldn’t desire to eat until we are 200 pounds or 300 pounds. And we don’t when we eat the proper nutrients. When we don’t eat the proper nutrients, we get unrelenting food cravings and we are not just uncomfortable – we become food addicts. An average American person is a significant food addict.
We need to shift our perspective about nutrition and change the way we think about what we eat. It’s not about the volume amount of food, weight amount of food, or even a caloric amount of food, it’s about the nutritional amount that’s important.
Your hunger diminishes as you meet your nutritional needs better. And the perception of hunger changes.
People find that hunger is a pleasurable sensation not a painful sensation. And when they felt hunger, it made food taste so much better, because of the enhancement of the taste sensation. So people actually prefer to wait to eat till they are hungry, and they prefer not to overeat at lunch, because they want to be hungry for dinner, because eating when they are hungry is such a pleasurable sensation/so intensely pleasurable, that the body becomes an automatic computer, directing people to the precise amount of calories to maintain the perfect weight, and people don’t become overweight.
Listen to the Interview with Dr. Fuhrman on Responsible Eating and Living
Download and listen to an interview with Dr. Joel Fuhrman on Responsible Eating and Living and here, where he talks at length about diet and health.
Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board–certified family physician, best-selling author and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. As one of the country’s leading experts on nutrition and natural healing, Dr. Fuhrman has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, TV Food Network, CNBC, the Dr. Oz Show. His own PBS television show, “3 Steps to Incredible Health,” aired nationwide in June 2011. His book, Eat to Live, published in 2003 (Little Brown) has gone through over 20 printings and been published in multiple foreign language editions. The revised version was released by Little Brown in January 2011 and is still on the NY Times best-sellers list. His recent works include Disease-Proof Your Child and has had published a total of 7 books on human nutrition to date. Dr. Fuhrman is actively involved in scientific research in human nutrition. His discoveries on food addiction and human hunger were published in the scientific journal, Nutrition Journal, in November 2011 entitled, The Changing Perception of Hunger on a High Nutrient Density Diet. His research activities include working with researchers at the National Institute of Health on dietary interventions for specific autoimmune diseases. Visit his website here.
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As I prepared my smoothie this morning, my plan was to stick to the cabbage-apple-oats smoothie recipe that I made yesterday.
However, as I was making it, I had a change of heart. As I was drinking my smoothie, I got this – radical – idea to add some…. chocolate to my cabbage smoothie.
It turned out quite delicious, so I tried a few different combinations and I have to say, it’s hard to not like this chocolate smoothie. You can have it for breakfast, as a snack, or for dessert.
You can also give it to your kids – and they will never know they are drinking their cabbage.
Yummy Chocolate Smoothie Recipe
Yummy Chocolate Cabbage Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1-2 cups cabbage
- 1 very ripe banana, fresh or frozen
- 1/4 cup almonds, raw
- 1/2 cup oats
- 5 dates, pitted
- 1 1/2 tablespoon cacao
- 2 cups water or non-dairy milk
Optional Ingredients
- Substitute some of the liquid with ice cubes
- 1/2 tsp stevia
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- dash of cinnamon
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients until smooth. Serves 1-2
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As I said, I had no intention of making a chocolate smoothie.
So, I started out with some of the usual ingredients for a breakfast smoothie, including these:
Some of The Ingredients for Chocolate Smoothie
The smoothie turned out quite tasty, and it looked really pretty in the glass with cinnamon sprinkled on top, but it still seemed to be missing something “je-ne-sais-quoi.”
My Breakfast Smoothie: still missing one critical ingredient….
And then, as I was taking photos of it (that’s my new addiction- I take pictures of my smoothies, like new mamas take pictures of their newborn babies)– it hit me.
*Chocolate*.
This may seem like a radical idea for a breakfast smoothie with cabbage and oatmeal, but why not?
I mean just putting cabbage and oatmeal together is radical. How much worse can it be?
So here it is, in it’s full, delicious glory.
Chocolate Oat-Cabbage Smoothie.
Chocolate Smoothie: It really turned out to be quite delicious!
You may have noticed by now that I only recommend non-dairy milks in my green smoothies. Find out more about that here:
For all my blending recipes I use Vitamix. If you don’t already own a VitaMix, I strongly encourage you to check out what this machine is capable of! For more information about VitaMix you can go directly to the VitaMix website. You may also want to read my post about the Best Blender.
I LOVE my VitaMix and highly recommend investing in one if you are ready to make serious changes to your diet. I have had mine for almost 5 years and use it daily!
If you decide to purchase Vitamix – be sure to use Promotional Code 06-004554 to get free shipping.
The Making of Chocolate Smoothie: Inside of my Vitamix
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I did not get the chance to run to the farmers market today, so – since I ran out of fresh leafy greens – I keep experimenting with the ingredients I have available at home, especially cabbage to make deliciously thick and filling, green smoothies.
These thick smoothie recipes I’m creating will come in handy when I start the “Green Thickies 7 Day Meal Replacement Green Smoothie Challenge” I signed up for today. (If you’d like to sign up for this challenge, go to Green Thickies website, it’s going to be fun!).
This is totally weird, but I have this craving for cabbage smoothies lately.
So, here is another cabbage smoothie recipe for you. It’s for a thick, meal-replacement type of smoothie, with apple and lemon, plus some oats (you can use quinoa or other cooked grain, if you prefer, to make the smoothie thicker).
These thick smoothies work great as breakfast smoothies, for example, when you want something more filling to keep you full longer. They are also great for weight loss.
Green Cabbage-Apple Smoothie
Ingredients
- 2 cups green cabbage
- 1 banana
- 1 apple
- 1 lemon wedge
- 1 tablespoon almonds
- 1/2 cup oats
- 2 1/2 cups cold almond milk, coconut milk or filtered water
Optional Ingredients
- a few dates, 1 teaspoon sweetener, or 1 packet of stevia, as desired
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- 1. Place the ingredients into the pitcher of a high speed blender or Vitamix.
- 2. Blend on high until smooth.
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Green Cabbage Smoothie Ingredients
You may have noticed by now that I only recommend non-dairy milks in my green smoothies. Find out more about that here:
For all my blending recipes I use Vitamix. If you don’t already own a VitaMix, I strongly encourage you to check out what this machine is capable of! For more information about VitaMix you can go directly to the VitaMix website. You may also want to read my post about the Best Blender.
I LOVE my VitaMix and highly recommend investing in one if you are ready to make serious changes to your diet. I have had mine for almost 5 years and use it daily!
If you decide to purchase Vitamix – be sure to use Promotional Code 06-004554 to get free shipping.
The Making of Cabbage Smoothie: Inside of my Vitamix
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Cabbage is probably one of the last ingredients on people’s minds when they think about what to put into a smoothie. Yet, with the right cabbage smoothie recipes, cabbage can be a part of many delicious drinks.
I admit that I have been avoiding cabbage for a long time as ingredient in green smoothies, as I thought that cabbage would have had a strong, overpowering flavor.
When I finally mustered up the courage to add some green cabbage to my strawberry banana smoothie recipe, my reaction had been: “Wow!” It was really delicious and I could hardly taste it.
In fact, I liked it so much that although usually, I recommend beginners to use spinach and lettuce in their green smoothies, from now on cabbage will be on the beginner green smoothie list as well! You can incorporate several cups of this veggie into a smoothie and hardly notice the green taste!
A great advantage of cabbage is that – unlike other leafy greens – it stays fresh for a long time.
If you ever went to your fridge looking for great ingredients for your green smoothie, and all you could find was a bunch of sorry looking, wilted greens, I’m sure you will appreciate having a backup plan – a head of cabbage stashed in your fridge for such emergencies.
Fresh whole cabbage will keep in the refrigerator for one to six weeks depending on type and variety. Hard green, white or red cabbages will keep the longest while the looser Savoy and Chinese varieties need to be consumed more quickly. It is necessary to keep the outer leaves intact without washing when storing since moisture hastens decay. Peak season for most cabbages runs from November through April.
Choose cabbage that is heavy for its size with leaves that are unblemished and have a bright, fresh look. Whole cabbages are preferred whenever possible as pre-cut or preshredded cabbage has a greatly diminished vitamin content.
Plus, cabbage changes the color of the smoothie very little, so, for example, if you add strawberries or raspberries to the mix, the result will be a brilliant red smoothie. Incredible!
This is nice for picky eaters who are suspicious of any shade of green in their food.
What’s more, you can also use red cabbage to add a brilliant purple to your “green” smoothie, although it does seem to have a stronger taste than green cabbage. Green is great, and purple is powerful!!
Health Benefits of Cabbage
It has many benefits: it’s low in calories, low glycemic index, it’s cheap, available year-round where I live, plus it’s really good for you. A great reason to add cabbage to your smoothies instead of cooking it is that raw cabbage has shown greater cancer-protective benefits in studies over cabbage that has been thoroughly cooked.
Cabbage provides fiber, vitamins A, C, K and B6, folate, potassium, manganese, thiamin, calcium, iron and magnesium. Red cabbage is also a great source of vitamin A (as beta-carotene), C and K. It is also loaded with ironm manganese and anthocyanins. Anthocyanins, a very powerful antioxidant, gives foods their deep blue – purple shade and researchers believe responsible for lowering heart disease and cancer risks, along with inflammation, and even has anti-aging benefits. Blueberries have the highest concentration of anthocyanins, but they are also present in purple grapes, cherries, and purple cabbage.
It also allows you to incorporate this food item into the diet of those who claim to dislike it, like my son. For example, my son doesn’t like cabbage at all, so this is one of the few ways I can sneak it into his food.
Top Tips For Using Cabbage in Green Smoothies
#1 Blend Cabbage First
You may find that cabbage blends best if blended first with just the liquid. Then add the rest of the ingredients and blend again until completely smooth.
#2 Refrigerate or Freeze the Cabbage
I find that refrigerating seems to tame down the flavor of the cabbage a bit. You can even try freezing it in before blending – I haven’t tried that personally, but I know it works for some people. This will allow you to disguise the taste of cabbage in your “green” smoothies for your family and friends even easier. Plus, freezing your ingredients may also help you save money, because you will not waste any leftover cabbage pieces.
#3 Blend with a Piece of Fresh Ginger and/or Lemon
If you are can still taste the cabbage and you want to disguise the flavor even further, add some lemon or ginger – I find that they are excellent when it comes to adding this special “zing” to any smoothie.
A slice of lemon along with the peel, to brighten. I love citrus, and just love the flavor it gives to water, and tea so adding a slice to my smoothie seemed like a good idea.
#4 Add Bananas or Avocado for Creaminess
Adding very ripe banana (fresh or frozen) gives this smoothie a creamy, smooth texture and is a great source of vitamin C, manganese, fiber and potassium. If you want to avoid banana because of blood sugar issues, add a piece of avocado instead. Plus, it will give you this healthy fat boost to enhance the absorption of nutrients.
# 5 Chocolate covers up the cabbage flavor really well also.
That’s right… I said chocolate. Stay tuned for the chocolate recipe, but now, without further ado, let’s try this Creamy Cabbage-Berry Recipes. It’s totally satisfying and really quite amazing!
Creamy Cabbage-Berry Smoothie Recipe
Creamy Cabbage-Berry Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients
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- 2-4 cups of cabbage, green (you can start with less if adding too much cabbage at once makes you cringe)
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- 2 cup strawberries or mixed berries, frozen
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- 2 bananas
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- a handful of cashews
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- 1 1/2 cups water or non-dairy milk
Optional Ingredients
- Raw almonds or 2 teaspoons raw almond butter can be used in place of cashews
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- 1 teaspoon stevia (you can replace with sugar or orange juice)
Instructions
- Blend the water, cabbage, and cashews (if using) first. Then add the rest of the ingredients on HIGH and blend until very smooth.
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Cabbage Smoothie Recipe: Give it a try! Even the kids will love this one, because it is pink.
For all my blending recipes I use Vitamix. If you don’t already own a VitaMix, I strongly encourage you to check out what this machine is capable of! For more information about VitaMix you can go directly to the VitaMix website. You may also want to read my post about the Best Blender.
I LOVE my VitaMix and highly recommend investing in one if you are ready to make serious changes to your diet. I have had mine for almost 5 years and use it daily!
If you decide to purchase Vitamix – be sure to use Promotional Code 06-004554 to get free shipping.
Cabbage-Berry Smoothie: Inside my VitaMix
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