A light celery salad with carrots and apples is the perfect complement to meat or fish.
INGREDIENTS
- 150 g celery root
- 150 g carrots
- 1 apple
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- salt and pepper to taste
- olive oil
- yogurt to taste
For filling this simple and tasty salad we used thick homemade yogurt, sour cream is also suitable. Instead of dill, you can add other herbs, and olive oil can be replaced with fragrant vegetable.
How to cook celery salad with carrots and apples
Spoon an apple on a special grater for Korean carrots in a suitable bowl, add lemon juice. Also rub the remaining ingredients and add to the apple. Finely chop the dill and lay out the rest of the ingredients. Salt and pepper, season with olive oil and mix. Spread the salad in portions and add yoghurt.
Benefits: the healing properties of celery
Celery has a huge amount of fiber. There are many of them in the petioles and in the tubers, and in the petioles it is even more. Fiber is needed by the body for good intestinal function, it heals and prevents constipation.
Many vitamins:
- vitamin A, which is responsible for skin elasticity,
- vitamins C is important for the immune and nervous systems
- vitamin K – helps strengthen bones, prevents osteoporosis;
- vitamins of group B – well affects the nervous system, celery is recommended to eat when you need to calm down (instead of sedatives).
Celery improves performance, helps with stress, calms the nerves, normalizes sleep.
Nutritionists attribute this vegetable to obesity and overweight.
In addition, thanks to a variety of important elements, celery slows the aging of the body, cleans it of toxins.
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