Meera Sodha's vegan recipe for celery, saffron and white bean stew | The new vegan

A Persian dish of braised celery, beans and saffron that's loaded with flavour Celery: always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Until, that is, the Persians came along and created khoresh karafs, a celery stew that my Armenian mother-in-law is very fond of. There is a whole bunch in it, and an entire one of parsley, too. The celery is braised to velvet-soft submission, releasing an immense flavour (somewhere between celery, softened shallots and fennel) that no one (and certainly not I) ever thou...