Name: Vegetable stock
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Makes about 3½ litres/6 pints
Ingredients: small bunch parsley; 2 tbsp olive oil; 4 bay leaves; ½ tsp black peppercorns; 2 leeks, roughly chopped; 1 fennel bulb, roughly chopped; 2 sticks celery, roughly chopped; 2 tsp flaked sea salt; 4 cloves garlic, unpeeled; 2 onions, unpeeled and quartered; 2 carrots, roughly chopped

Preparation info

about
3½ litres

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

The Flexible Vegetarian

By Jo Pratt

Published 2017

About

You can buy some great ready-made vegetable stocks, but if you have some spare time then have a go making up a batch of homemade stock and freezing it in measured quantities.

Many vegetable stock recipes simply simmer veggies and herbs with water to make stock, but I like to sauté my veg before adding the water for an intensely flavoured end result.