Homemade Vegetable Stock
Many stock cubes and pre-prepared broths have sugar and other additives like MSG in them. By making your own using this easy method, you skip those, save money, reduce waste and have less to carry home from the store!
Ingredients
- Raw vegetable and herb trimmings: carrot and potato peels, onion and garlic skins, fennel or celery tops/ends, tomato or mushroom pieces, or parsley, rosemary and thyme stems.
- Water
Instructions
- Collect raw vegetable and herb trimmings.
- Add your trimmings to a pot, cover with water, and simmer for about an hour.
- Strain and voila, homemade vegetable stock.
- Store it in the fridge or freezer and use it in your favorite dishes and baby foods.
Notes
For more tips and recipes like this one, check out Sugarproof (Avery, 2020), which can be purchased here or anywhere books are sold.