My Daughter and I are trying to eat more healthy so I thought I would share some pictures on Saturday's of what we've made.
Homemade Vegetable Broth
Since I started eating low carb I've been using a lot of vegetables. So I thought I would save all the cuttings, ends and pieces that would usually get thrown away and make some homemade vegetable broth. I saved it all in freezer bags and and just added to the bags as I used the vegetables. After 2 months I had enough to make a large pot of vegetable broth.
I didn't add any salt or spices to this that way I can spice it up any way I want when I use it. The vegetable pieces that I had were carrots, onion, tomato, zucchini, asparagus, bell pepper, cilantro, broccoli, cauliflower and celery.
I added all the ends, pieces and peels from the vegetables I had saved to a pot and covered it with water. Bring it to a boil, put a cover on it and let it simmer on medium for 6 hours or until all of the vegetable ends and pieces have gotten mushy. Strain the vegetables from the broth and fill ice cube trays with the broth.
I got 24 vegetable broth cubes from this big pot of vegie pieces.
I put the vegie broth cubes in ziplock freezer bags and am storing it in the freezer. When I need some vegetable broth for a recipe I can just pop a few vegie cubes out of the bag and use it.
Would you make your own vegetable broth?
