It is cold outside, it has been raining all day, and your body is asking for something warm and nurturing to start feeling better. Make some Homemade Vegetable Stock and start feeling better!
This homemade vegetable stock comes in really handy for these days and to make many of your recipes healthier and tastier by adding it instead of stock cubes.
In our household, we cook homemade vegetable stock every second week and freeze it to have it always available for cooking or making soups. It takes 10 minutes to prepare and you can leave it cooking while doing other things.
This is the perfect stock as a base for many different dishes for your little one. It does not contain any salt, just vegetables, and water. Luca loves mummy's soup as much as I do.
You can add to this recipe any vegetables that you have in your fridge or pantry as it will simply add more flavor and nutrients. Some vegetables we would avoid including in your stock are potatoes, zucchini or beets.
How can I use my Vegetable Stock?
Here is a list of different recipes that we make with our Vegetable Stock:
- Miso and Tahini Ramen: If you want to make delicious Ramen, you will need a delicious stock, otherwise it won't happen. If you want to cook a homemade stock for ramen, you can add ginger and more onion to it. Cook both ingredients first with a little bit of oil, at a high temperature. You can then add the rest of the ingredients.
- Vegan Pho: If you need a delicious stock for Ramen, the same applies to Pho. This noodle soup needs to be cooked with homemade stock to have the flavor that you are looking for.
- Katsu Curry: When cooking a Katsu sauce, use a homemade stock instead of a shop-bought one. The taste you get from homemade stock is difficult to get from a cube or shop-bought pack.
Easy Homemade Vegetable Stock
Ingredients
- 1 large onion cut in half
- 2 to 3 leeks chopped
- A handful of green beans cut in half
- 1 to 2 to tomatoes cut in half
- 1 parsnip chopped
- 3 to 4 celery stalks chopped
- 1 to 2 turnips chopped
- 6 to 8 carrots chopped
Instructions
- Wash with cold water all the ingredients and chop them so they release more flavour while cooking.
- Heat some olive oil in a big pot on medium heat and add the ingredients. Let them sweat (start to soften and release their liquids) for a few minutes over the heat before adding the water.
- Add enough water to cover all the vegetables. You can add more water if you need to make more stock or less water for a more flavourful and concentrated stock if you are just using it for one dish. We normally make around 3 litres of stock from this recipe.
- Bring the water to boil and when it starts bubbling reduce the heat to medium and let it simmer for at least 45 minutes. The longer you leave it cooking, the tastier.
- Put the stock through a strainer or colander. Let it cool before freezing it if you are storing the stock.
Notes
- You can use the cooked vegetables to make soup with a little bit of the stock. We always make 3 or 4 portions of soup for Luca to make the most of the vegetables.
- For a sweeter broth add more carrots.
- For a umami flavour, add some Kombu and cook the ingredients for a few minutes into high heat before adding the water.
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Ottilie says
Veuillez montrer des recettes végétaliennes plus simples pour nous qui sommes en quarantaine en ce moment, merci 🙂 🙂 🙂
Laura says
Merci! 🙂
Nikki says
Love this idea! I always keep a big ziploc of my veggie scraps in the fridge or freezer for this!
Laura says
We do too! It is a good way of making the vegetable stock a bit cheaper too 🙂
Sisley White says
It is so simple to make and tasted delicious. We froze some to use later x
Laura says
well done! Thank you for letting us know 🙂
Kristin says
This was super easy and amazingly tasty. I will never buy it from the store again! Thanks for such a helpful recipe!
Laura says
We are glad you liked it! 🙂
stephanie says
Such an easy home made vegetable stock, delicious!
Laura says
Thank you Stephanie!
Deanne says
These's nothing as soothing as homemade vegetable stock! Thank you!
Laura says
I know, I love this so much!
Toni says
This is great! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe!
Laura says
Thank you Toni!
moozi says
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