Celery Rice is an easy flavorful dish for Spring. Crisp, light Dandy®celery bakes up to tender perfection alongside diced onions, garlic, and lemon zest for a bright finish. This is a super easy side dish we think you’ll love!
All About Celery
Celery is a fibrous vegetable well known for its long crunchy stalks, and perfect celery is light green in color. It is often used both raw and cooked, and it has a light, slightly sweet flavor. Celery is low in calories, and is a great source of vitamin K, vitamin A, and folate. It’s a key ingredient of mirepoix, a 3 part vegetable mixture that often is a base in soups. We love celery for its fresh, light flavor, and it works great in so many dishes!
This post is sponsored by Dandy® Fresh Produce using their Dandy® Celery. They have some of the best tasting celery on the market, super crispy and fresh. We also love that their celery is pre-washed to save a step in the cooking process, and it’s sweeter, crispier, and less stringy than other celery! Find Dandy® celery at a grocer near you.
Baked Celery Rice Recipe
This recipe is super easy to make, and uses one of our favorite cooking hacks, which is baked rice! We take our traditional baked rice recipe and amp up the flavor by adding a few ingredients. The result bakes up to perfection in about 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Celery: Dandy® Celery is the freshest and crunchiest (with no strings!). It’s freshly washed and cut which makes this recipe even easier on the cook!
- White Rice: I used Jasmine rice from Trader Joes but any white rice works.
- Onion: I used a small white onion.
- Granulated Garlic: You can use fresh however I prefer granulated because it really disperses throughout the entire dish as it bakes.
- Salt: Just a little bit to enhance the flavors.
- Lemon Zest & Juice: This really brightens everything up and pairs so well with the garlic!
- Water: To cook the rice. You can also use chicken or vegetable broth for added flavor.
Making Rice with Celery
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.
- In a 9×13 inch casserole dish (at least 2 inches deep), add white rice.
- Next, chop the celery into small slices, and dice the onion, adding celery and onion on top of the rice. Next, add the salt, granulated garlic, lemon zest and lemon juice, followed by the water. Cover casserole dish with foil.
Make sure the foil is tight, this helps keep the steam inside the dish and cooks the rice to perfection! It’s the same concept as using a rice cooker, super easy!
Serving Celery Rice
Once the rice is fully cooked and all of the water has absorbed, remove it from the oven and allow it to sit for about 5 minutes. Then, remove the foil, and give it a good stir. The onion and celery will have risen to the top, so stir well!
Since the rice has celery and onion in it, we love to serve this with chicken. These recipes would work great: boneless skinless chicken thighs, baked blackened chicken, or yogurt marinated chicken.
If you love celery as much as we do, you’ll enjoy these recipes! Cheddar bacon stuffed celery, dill pickle dip with celery, healthy chicken salad, & celery au gratin.
Hope you enjoy this one as much as we did! – Kathi and Rachel
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Baked Celery Rice
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Dandy® Celery (cut into small slices)
- 1/4 cup onion (finely diced)
- 1 cup white rice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp granulated garlic
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tbsp lemon juice (about 1 lemon's worth of juice)
- 2 cups water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit. Spray a 9x13 inch casserole dish with non stick spray.
- Add white rice to casserole dish.
- Next, chop the celery into small slices, and dice the onion, adding celery and onion on top of the rice.
- Next, add the salt, granulated garlic, lemon zest and lemon juice, followed by water and stir. Cover casserole dish tightly with foil.
- Bake for about 25 minutes, or until the rice has absorbed all of the water. Allow to rest for 5 minutes before stirring and serving.
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