What Is Celery salt and How Can I Use It?

Here's everything worth knowing about celery salt and how to pick it, what it is, how to store it, and what to use instead, plus 153 recipes to cook tonight.

What is celery salt?

Celery salt  is a flavored salt used as a food seasoning, made from ground seeds, which may come from celery or its relative lovage. These ground seeds are mixed with salt, either table salt or sea salt.

Celery salt is an ingredient of the Bloody Mary cocktail and the Caesar cocktail. It is also commonly used to season the famous Chicago-style hot dog, salads and stews. It can also be used to liven up a coleslaw.

Celery salt can be made at home as well as purchased in a supermarket. To make celery seed salt, place seeds inside of a coffee grinder. Alternately, seeds can be placed inside of a mortar and petal, and ground until a fine powder is produced.

Pulse seeds until they are finely chopped, and place seeds inside of a tightly sealed container. Next, measure out one tablespoon of seeds to two tablespoons of salt. Finally, add the mixture to asalt shaker. Celery seeds can be purchased in any spice store or supermarket. When making homemadecelery seed salt, be sure to purchase whole celery seeds.

Nutrition

Quick facts

Where to find celery salt: Celery salt is usually found in the condiments section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.

Food group: Celery salt is a member of the Spices and Herbs US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.

In Chinese

芹菜盐

British (UK) term

Celery salt

en français

sel de céleri

en español

sal de apio

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A traditional Welsh prawn gratin with tender cauliflower, creamy bechamel, and crumbled Caerphilly cheese, grilled golden and served with piped creamed potatoes. Elegant comfort food.

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