Celery Soup

Ingredients:

• Celery - 12-14 stalks
• Onion - 1 medium
• Potato - 1 medium
• Ginger - 1/2 inch 
• Garlic - 2 pods
• Butter - 1-2 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• Vegetable Stalk - 6 cups
• Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp

Directions: 

• Chop the celery, onion and potato. Keep aside.

• Mince the ginger and garlic, keep aside.
• Heat the butter in a saucepan. Saute ginger and garlic.
• Add celery, potato and onion into the saucepan.
• Add salt and let it cook till they begin to soften. Stir occasionally. 
• Add stalk ( or water ) and cook covered. Cook till all the ingredients are very tender.
• Let it cool.  Grind in batches into smooth puree.
• Return to the saucepan , add lemon juice, mix well and heat the soup.
• Adjust salt. Garnish with the celery leaves or mint leaves and serve hot with bread sticks or crackers.