Vegetable Stock

Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 5

Appears in
We're Hungry!: Batch Cooking Your Family Will Love

By Ciara Attwell

Published 2021

  • About

Keep the odds and ends of vegetables including trimmings and peelings and small amounts of fresh herbs too. Keep them in the freezer until you have enough to make your own delicious homemade vegetable stock.

Ingredients

Odds and ends of vegetables and peelings, including

  • onions
  • garlic
  • green tops of leeks
  • celery
  • carrots

Method

  1. Save peelings from vegetables and scrappy ends as well as any stray bits of herbs or herb stalks. Keep a large bag in the freezer and keep adding to it until it is full.
  2. When ready to make, add the contents of the bag to a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
  3. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 1 hour.
  4. Strain through a sieve into a l