How to Dice Celery for Lentil Soup

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village I've already washed my celery I ran it under water and with my scrub brush I scrubbed and make sure that you get any sand or dirt that gets caught in the middle and that rib section. I'm going to discard the leaves and this is very thin celery any of the fatter pieces you can cut into strips that'll be about a 1/4" and again same as the carrots you hold it together with a hand like this, sort of like a claw keeping your knuckles bent so you don't cut. Slicing the same way simply moving your hands down as you go and there you also have a nice dice of celery, so all our pieces here the onions, the carrots, the celery are diced in a fairly uniform size, and that gives the soup a certain texture. It's a nice not to lumpy like a stew and the vegetables both cook and be tender."