Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Celery Seed along with all the recipes employing Celery Seed presented on this site, with 199 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Celery Seed recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Celery Seed as a major wild food ingredient.

Celery seeds are the fruit of the Celery plant, Apium graveolens dulce, a herbaceous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbellifarae) a huge family that contains carrots, cumin, caraway and fennel. It is native to the coasts of western and northern Europe, most commonly in ditches and saltmarshes. It grows to 1 m tall, with pinnate to bipinnate leaves with rhombic leaflets 3-6 cm long and 2-4 cm broad. The flowers are creamy-white, 2-3 mm diameter, produced in dense compound umbels. The name Celery dervies from the Greek selinon (parsley). Celery is used as a vegetable but celery seed is used as a spice. They add great flavor to potatoes, especially potato salad. The seeds can also be used in salad dressings, sauces and gravies. However, celery seeds do have a strong celery-like flavour and shoud be used sparingly so as not to overwhelm a dish.