This cheesy celery bake is a great keto friendly dish on its own or for using as a side to accompany your cooked meat dish. Full of flavour, full of a cheese sauce and the baked celery within is light and full of goodness.
It is so simple to make with only 3 main ingredients that most stores stock. Minimal prep required too and soon you shall have that baking cheese aroma filling the air and whetting your appetite.
In a previous recipe I showed you broccoli and cauliflower cheese. This one uses celery as the veg but also reduces the ingredients a little to make a more simpler recipe to prepare.
Celery is a good go-to on the keto diet. It helps to get some fibre into your digestive system plus it is very low in calories. Celery can be the yin to the yang that is the cheese and cream.
The cream of celery soup was popular so it was about time I revisited this often overlooked vegetable.
I am like most people in that previously I had only eaten them crunchy and raw, maybe as a way of eatng dips. But I have a new found love of soft baked celery that does not make me feel guilty nor have any fear of coming out of ketosis.
Utensils required – Saucepan, baking dish.
Keto Celery And Cheese Bake Recipe
This cheesy celery bake is a great keto friendly dish on its own or for using as a side to accompany your cooked meat dish.
2
servings10
minutes25
minutes190
kcalIngredients
6 – 10 Sticks of celery
120 ml Double cream
100 g Grated full fat cheese
80 ml Vegetable broth
Salt and Pepper
Directions
- Cut the celery sticks into bite size chunks. Or you can just half them if you prefer.
- In the saucepan on the hob, place the celery in boiling water for 5 minutes so they can get a little tender.
- Drain the water and put the celery into your baking dish making a layer of celery.
- In the now empty saucepan put the cream, vegetable stock and the cheese (leaving some for sprinkling on top). Add salt and pepper to season and to your taste. Warm through whilst mixing together.
- Pour the cheese sauce over the celery in the baking dish.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top of the cheese and celery.
- Bake in the oven at 200c/400f/Gas mark 6 for around 20 minutes.
- If you want the top cheese extra golden then you can always transfer under the grill a couple of minutes if you want.
- Your cheesy celery bake is ready to serve. Best served warm.
You could even use this recipe as a base and then enhance it by adding bacon bits, lardons etc to make an even more flavoursome meal in its own right. Enjoy!
