Summer Dreaming Vegetable Broth Recipes

SUMMER DREAMING VEGETABLE BROTH

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in large stockpot, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 20- 30 minutes or until flavors are sufficiently mingled. Taste and adjust seasonings if you like.
• Strain first through a colander, then use cheesecloth to capture little bits. Use as desired in any other recipe calling for broth. Enjoy!

VEGETABLE BROTH

Steps:

• Heat oil in a stockpot over medium heat until hot. Add onions, celery and garlic. Cook and stir 5 minutes or until tender. Add leeks and carrots; cook and stir 5 minutes. Add water, mushrooms, parsley, thyme, salt, peppercorns and bay leaf; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 1 hour. , Remove from heat. Strain through a cheesecloth-lined colander; discard vegetables. If using immediately, skim fat. Or, refrigerate 8 hours or overnight; remove fat from surface. Broth can be covered and refrigerated up to 3 days or frozen up to 6 months.

VEGETABLE BROTH

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large pot.
• Add the vegetables and stir-fry to brown lightly.
• Add the marjoram, thyme, bay leaves, and cold water.
• Bring the pot to a boil, reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for one hour.
• Strain the stock through a fine sieve or a cheesecloth-lined colander.
• Press or squeeze the vegetables to extract their liquid.
• Discard the vegetables.

BASIC VEGETABLE BROTH

Steps:

• Put all of the ingredients in a large pot and cover them with 6 quarts of cold water. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer gently, until it reduces to 2 1/2 quarts, about 2 to 3 hours. Strain through a sieve lined with cheesecloth.

WORLD'S GREATEST VEGETABLE BROTH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Remove leaves and tender inner parts of celery and set aside.
• Toss onions, carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers and turnips with olive oil. Place vegetables in a roasting pan and place them in the 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) oven. Stir the vegetable every 15 minutes. Cook until all of the vegetables have browned and the onions start to caramelize, this will take over one hour.
• Put the browned vegetables, celery, garlic, cloves, bay leaf, pepper corns, Italian parsley and water into a large stock pot. Bring to a full boil. Reduce heat to simmer. Cook uncovered until liquid is reduced by half.
• Pour the broth through a colander, catching the broth in a large bowl or pot. The liquid caught in the bowl or pot is your vegetable broth it can be used immediately or stored for later use. Although the vegetables are no longer necessary for your broth they are delicious to eat hot or cold, don't waste them!