Stuffed Celery Appetizer. Stalks of celery are filled with cream cheese, chopped green olives and walnuts. A holiday appetizer family favorite that’s so easy to make and so satisfying with flavor. Everyone loves celery sticks.
I happen to think that a stock of celery is the perfect vessel for a mixture of cream cheese and chopped green pimento-stuffed olives. Throw in some crunchy walnuts and some blue cheese and you’ve got an appetizer full of memories.
Family Favorite Holiday Appetizers
The holidays are upon us and with it comes all of the gatherings with family, friends and food. And I can’t imagine a Thanksgiving or Christmas without stuffed celery on our relish plate.
Growing up, I remember the wonderful aromas of a turkey or ham in the oven was torture for a room full of us hungry kids, so we’d always sneak bites off the relish plate while waiting for dinner.
It seemed the stuffed celery always took the biggest hit, and along with some uncles, we’d all be fighting for that last stalk. When I got married, my mother-in-law always prepared stuffed celery and would serve it on the same fancy cut glass dish each year.
So why not add some stuffed celery on your relish plate this year. But don’t just grab any old jar of olives, pick quality and flavorful Mezzetta. My grocery store shelves have a fabulous selection of Mezzetta products, making building a great relish plate a breeze to keep those holiday memories alive for my own holiday gatherings.
Let’s take a look at this celery stuffed with cream cheese and olives. Easy and addictive.
Recipe for Stuffed Celery Sticks with Green Olives
I hope you give this Stuffed Celery Appetizer recipe a try. And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating.
Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite stuffed celery stick recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
More Holiday Appetizer Recipes
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- 12 inch stalks of celery cleaned and cut into 3 to 4 pieces
- 8 ounces of cream cheese room temperature
- 10 pimento stuffed green olives chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1 tablespoon heaping sour cream
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Fresh ground pepper to taste
- Bring cream cheese to room temperature. In the meantime clean and slice celery. When the cream cheese is softened, add olives, walnuts, blue cheese and sour cream. Mix very well, adding milk if needed to make the mixture spreadable.
- With a spreader, heap the cream cheese mixture on the stalks of celery.
Stuffed Celery Sticks …They’re what’s for an Appetizer.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! And please … over eat … I insist! 🙂
Jean | DelightfulRepast.com says
November 26, 2015 at 7:21 amLea Ann, you just took me back to my newlywed days! The first time I was planning a big turkey dinner for my husband, he said “I’ll make the stuffed celery. That was always my job.” I said, “What is stuffed celery?” I guess there are only two kinds of families in the world: stuffed celery families and NOT! It’s good, and I be he’s going to like it with the addition of olives; he’s included to put green olives in everything.
Jaime, the German granddaughter says
November 26, 2015 at 7:53 amWow! How creative Lea Ann. Old favorite with a new twist. Happy Thanksgiving! May you have much to be grateful for.
Heather says
November 26, 2015 at 8:14 amI love this idea! Yummy and a little crunch! Have a beautiful Thanksgiving my friend!
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen says
November 27, 2015 at 12:48 pmMy MIL used to make something similar and I haven’t had it in years. Love your version with the walnuts and blue cheese.
Sam
Amy says
November 27, 2015 at 1:21 pmWe made our version on Thanksgiving eve, this way we had more time to them.
Lea Ann Brown says
December 7, 2015 at 6:40 amI love celery sticks, and glad to hear it’s a tradition in your house also.
cheri says
November 27, 2015 at 3:22 pmFantastic appetizer Lea Ann, happy holidays!
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
December 8, 2015 at 6:12 amThis post brought a smile as my mother always had a relish tray at Thanksgiving and Christmas that had stuffed celery. Shw too served it in a cut glass dish. Thanks for the nice memories.
17ladyslippers says
December 16, 2015 at 4:25 pmA favorite “kicked-up” with the walnuts and blue cheese – thank you! Just bought the blue cheese at Trader Joe’s and will make next week. My family was introduced to olive-cheese stuffed celery sticks by my sister-in-law and quickly embraced the tradition. Her dad made it every year.
Debbie Farr says
December 9, 2017 at 9:39 amMy moms stuffed celery is made with Peimento Cheese Spread that you find in a little glass jar at the grocery store! I hadn’t heard of this recipe, but I can’t make it unless mom has gone to my sisters for the holidays. Thank you for sharing!
Debbie Farr says
December 9, 2017 at 9:43 am“Pimento”. Darn iPhone…?
Lea Ann Brown says
January 17, 2018 at 12:29 pmI’ve had it that way too – it’s all good. 🙂