Simple Homemade Vegetable Broth

Broth is nourishing, healing, satisfying, nutritious, gentle on the body and oh so delicious to add more flavoring to any meal. Below is a simple vegetable broth recipe you can make with vegetable scraps from your very kitchen! It is so nice to know what you are actually drinking or adding into your dishes.

Ingredients:

  • Collect as many vegetable scraps as possible (onion layers, stems, carrot tops, garlic skins etc). Literally the end or scraps of any vegetables that you would place in the compost works! You can collect scraps and put them in a ziplock bag and place in the freezer until the bag is full

  • 4 fresh garlic cloves, bay leaves or any other seasoning you want

  • Salt & pepper

  • Tablespoon of olive oil

Directions:

  • Chop fresh garlic

  • In a big pot, heat oil and place the garlic in the pot until translucent. Then add all of the veggies scraps. Followed by enough water to just cover the veggie scraps

  • Salt and pepper as much as you want. Add bay leaves.

  • Let the veggie water boil for 30-45 minutes.

  • Drain the veggies and you are left with fresh and pure vegetable stock.