When you have stalks, stems, leaves and more lying around, there's nothing better and easier than making your own vegetable stock.
Our recipe editor, Aleigh Michelle, shows us how!
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This is the easiest zero waste recipe in the book.
Let's make a versatile, delicious veggie stock from the veggie scraps you have at home.
This recipe is part of a larger recipe series in which we'll show you how to cook with your vegetable scraps and odds, ends and stems at home.
Food waste has a massive environmental impact - especially when it comes to food waste produced in your home.
Most of this waste gets sent directly to the landfill if you don't have green bins or compost available in your city. And food waste is the top solution to fight climate change according to Project Drawdown.
There are so many ways to reduce food waste, and this veggie stock recipe from your upcycled veggie scraps might be one of the easiest ways to prevent food waste.
Vegetable Scrap Stock
Yield: About 6 cups
Prep time: 5 MinTotal time: 5 Min
This recipe is customizable and EASY. Just save up all your vegetable scraps throughout the week in a paper bag or container in your freezer, put it in a pot with water and simmer.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Onion ends + skins
- Shallot ends + skins
- Chard stalks
- Kale stems
- Carrots ends
- Celery ends
- Bell pepper stems
- Fresh hearty herbs like Rosemary, Oregano, or Thyme (I tend to have ones on their tail end of life that I toss in the mix)
- A bulb of fresh garlic, smashed with skins on
- Fresh ginger, sliced
- 2 sheets of dried kombu
- A handful of dried chilis (optional)
- 5-6 cups of filtered water
Instructions
Instructions
- I always use the largest pot I have on hand to make this (6 quart volume) so I can yield the most stalk when it’s finished.
- Remove all the vegetable scraps you’ve collected throughout the week and place in your pot. If you’re low on onion scraps I will sometimes roughly chop an extra one and toss it in the mix to enhance the flavor. Add the garlic, ginger, kombu, and chilis. Fill to the brim with filtered water leaving about and inch or so of room at the top. Bring to a boil then cover and let simmer for 4-6 hours giving it a stir every couple hours or so.
- When the stock is done, take off heat and let cool just a bit. Get a few reusable containers. (I repurpose my takeout containers). Fill them up and place in the freezer and use at your leisure!
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