Instant Pot Cream of Celery Soup

Here’s an easy Instant Pot cream of celery soup recipe, you can make it on your stovetop too if you don’t have a pressure cooker or Ninja Foodi. Either way this Instant Pot soup recipe is creamy and delicious!

Instant Pot Celery Soup

Homemade celery soup is one of our favorite one pot meals. When you’re ready for something creamy and warm to eat during the Winter months you’ll have tons to choose from. A cheap one pot meal that I bet even your kiddos will really like.

You can use your Crockpot Express or as a Ninja Foodi recipe too. Celery is an understated vegetable. I add celery to a lot of dishes just because it’s a cheap and easy veggie to dice up, throw in, and it adds great texture to dinners too.

Ninja Foodi Celery Soup

As with any one of our easy recipes on The Typical Mom, please add as many vegetables as you’d like, swap out the ones that aren’t your favorite, or omit those that are a no for you. For instance if you know your kids aren’t going to like onions than leave that out entirely. I do like the flavor but I get it.

Alternatively you could add minced onions so you get the flavor but not the texture that they may be opposed to.

Making Instant Pot cream of celery soup is quite easy really. This time we added diced chicken pieces to make it a heartier meal. You could leave that out if you just wanted it as a side dish. Or you didn’t have chicken on hand. Use what you have I say.

• Diced chicken breasts or thighs can be used. Choose for yourself although I think dark meat has more flavor and becomes more tender overall. I tend to buy and use that is on sale myself. 😉

Homemade Celery Soup Recipe

I have been using thighs recently because those too are overlooked many times, are so cheap to buy, and add a lot of flavor to any dish. I used them in this Instant Pot crack chicken casserole and I will say it wouldn’t have been as flavorful had I used breast meat instead.

Why I love making pressure cooker soup versus on the stovetop:

1. It cuts my cook time down from about an hour to 15-20 minutes
2. I don’t have to watch it, I just throw everything in and walk away
3. Pressure cooker soup turns out more flavorful in the pressure cooking process
4. NO need to presoak beans 

What can I substitute for a can of cream of celery?

Make this!! From scratch is so much better! Using cream, fresh produce, broth and some onions you can adjust to your liking making it as thick as you’d like or add heat. You can make this on your stovetop over medium heat until as tender as you’d like or in a pressure cooker as we share with you here.

1. Pressure cooker
   1. I HIGHLY recommend a non stick pot
2. Celery of course
3. Olive oil to saute the meat at the beginning
4. Chicken – diced breasts or thighs, boneless skinless
5. Onion and garlic if you love that flavor too – diced red or yellow is what I use
6. Chicken broth – could use vegetable broth
7. Heavy cream to make this creamy and delish
8. Cornstarch – optional at end if you want it thicker which we use

Can You Make Dairy Free Instant Pot Cream of Celery Soup?

Absolutely. Instead of heavy cream you can use coconut milk (which will be sweeter) or almond / cashew milk with 1 tbsp of additional cornstarch whisked in there. Reason for this is to make it thick like the cream. I have a printable recipe card at the bottom you can keep on hand for the future or just come back. We love “seeing you” time and time again so please do…..

How long does celery take to cook in the Instant Pot?

• Start by turning your Instant Pot to saute. Add olive oil, diced chicken and onions. Cook until outsides of chicken are cooked/whitish in color.
  • (if on the stovetop do the same in a pot on low/med heat)
• Turn pot OFF/Cancel and scrape bits of chicken off the bottom of the pot to avoid burn message being triggered (can add a bit of broth to make sure all bits are off/loosened).
• Add celery and chicken broth and close lid and steam valve.
• Set to pressure high for 20 minutes.
  • (if on the stovetop set on low heat for about the same time, cook until vegetables soften and chicken is done in the middle, then follow next steps with heavy cream)
• Do a quick release and add heavy cream. Stir and if you’d like it a bit thicker add 3 tbsp of cold water into a small bowl with 1-2 tbsp cornstarch.
  • Whisk together until smooth and add back into pot on saute function until bubbling to thicken it to your liking.

Seasonings are up to you but salt and pepper to taste is a given. If you want to make it spicy add red pepper flakes slowly, taste and adjust. I like chunks in it so I don’t use an immersion blender but you could. I would remove the meat first if you do. Looking for another Instant Pot recipes?

• Easy Instant Pot minestrone soup
• Instant Pot chicken noodle soup
• Below is another using veggies, Instant Pot tomato basil soup

Chicken Celery Soup Instant Pot

Try this cream of celery soup at home with your family and let us know what you think!! If y’all do have leftovers they save quite well so you can get a second meal out of it the next day.

This one is great with a few air fryer croutons thrown on to the top to give it some texture. My daughter even likes some shredded parmesan too because well we love cheese on all the things around here so….