How to Prepare Celery Amandine

A fussy, delicious appetizer.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 4 cups of celery
• 1 cup of almonds
• ½ chicken bouillon
• kosher salt
• freshly-ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon of chives
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 1 tablespoon of onion
• 1 cup of table cream
• 1 ½ cups of flour

1. Dip the almonds in boiling water, drain, allow to cool, rub the peels off with paper towels, then chop them into fine slivers.
2. Grate the onion, grind the pepper, mince the chives and chop the celery.
3. Sauté the celery in a saucepan with butter, salt and pepper, then cover.
4. From time to time open up the lid to make sure the celery isn't burning. Introduce the onion and chives and stir.
5. Mix the cream and flour and spoon it into the saucepan.
6. Stir in the bouillon.
7. When the mixture reaches a pleasing thickness, bring the heat to a boil.
8. After 1 minute, place the pan on a trivet and sprinkle on the almond fragments.