Healing Celery Soup

Celery is a wonderful vegetable, full of potassium, Vitamin C, antioxidants and insoluble fiber

Celery is a diuretic making it a great choice to help stimulate weight loss, improve water retention and reduce bloating

Celery may help improve metabolic syndromes like high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides

Whether you juice celery (JUSU has fresh-pressed organic celery juice), eat it raw or enjoy it ina soup, you are adding a superb vegetable to support your metabolism

Ingredients

· 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

· 1 large onion,diced

· 4 cloves garlic,minced

· 6 cups celery, trimmed and sliced

· 2 Yukon or Yellow flesh potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks

· 5-6 cups vegetable or chicken broth

· 1 bay leaf

· 1 ½ tsp kosher salt

· Black pepper, to taste

· ¼ cup chopped parsley, plus more for garnish

· ¼ cup chopped fresh dill, plus more for garnish

Method:

1.      Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium heat.Add onion and garlic, saute for 5-7 minutes until softened

2.      Add celery, potatoes, broth, parsley, dill, bayleaf, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil

3.      Reduce heat. Simmer partially covered for 30-40 minutes, until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally

4.      Remove from heat. Let slightly cool. Discard bayleaf

5.      Using an immersion blender, process soup until smooth. Serve and garnish with additional herbs

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It’s delicious! Enjoy!

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