Vegetable stock is not only healthy to use in your soups, but also adds flavour to your soups. I am not a soup person, that is lazy to prepare soup at home.
Even at restaurants, I junk eat the other starters rather than a soup. There are sometimes when I feel like having, then only I like to have soup.
I love rich and creamy soups as well as clear soups. Recently I am loving tomato basil bisque from subway.
Wanted to try vegetable stock in some soup and see the taste difference and searched for vegetable stock at stores and sadly all the top brands aren't vegetarian🤫.
So I had to try myself at home. And this stock recipe is one I adapted from an Italian cook book.
It may not be an Indian style stock recipe, but sure is healthy and tasty. And I really don't know if there is Indian style stock recipe.
Instructions
- Bring water to boil in a large vessel and add all the vegetables roughly chopped to it.When it boils, simmer the flame to lowest and cover cook for 45-60 mins.
2. Strain the vegetables, pressing down in a sieve or metal strainer and cool down completely.
You can store this stock in a container in fridge for 3 days or even freeze and use as when needed! Next post is a soup recipe obviously!
Recipe card
Vegetable stock
Ingredients
- 1 Carrot
- 4 Cabbage leaves
- 8 Beans
- 2 Celery stalks
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2 pinches Sugar
- 5 cups Water
Instructions
- Bring water to boil in a large vessel and add all the vegetables roughly chopped to it.
- When it boils, simmer the flame to lowest and cover cook for 45-60 mins.
- Strain the vegetables, pressing down in a sieve or metal strainer and cool down completely.
Notes
- This vegetables are just a guidance and you can use the vegetables available in your fridge.Its best way to use the leftover veggies, to utilize it.
- The recipe didn't ask to fry any ingredient, so just boil as such!
- You can use leftover pieces of vegetables collected over time and use for stock.
- Blend the vegetables left after straining and use it a thickening agents in soups, pasta sauce etc.
Veena Theagarajan
I love homemade vegetable stock..I always keep it in the fridge.. nice clicks
Akila
I always use maggi ready made veg stock... need to prepare this...
Nivedhanams Sowmya
very flavorful and refreshing!!!
Sowmya
Sayantani
lovely recipe. I also make it the same way
Kalpana Sareesh
a much needed one.. shd start making at home..
JEYASHRI SURESH
Very useful post and i think in the indian version they add bay leaves while making stock. Vibrant clicks
AparnaRajeshkumar
i tried vegetable stock long time back 🙂 some how i did nt like it ! i should try with different veggies !
Gayathri Ramanan
good recipe and very handy actually..thanks for sharing Raks..
Srimathi Mani
A very useful recipe.
Shama Nagarajan
good dear...
Wer SAHM
essential stock for making delicious soups .....
Chitz
Anything home made is wonderful 🙂 Love this simple stock recipe 🙂
Sapana Behl
Wonderful post and clicks are great!
Priya Suresh
Very useful post, i do mine the same way too.
VineelaSiva
Wow helpul and useful post all food lovers and its homemade to.
Vidya Chandrahas
Very useful post..thanks for sharing it.
Shweta
Can the veggies be added to some other dish or they have to be simply thrown away? What do u normally do?
SHARMILEE J
Nice lighting and clicks, very useful post!
Pravina Parikh
easy and very quick and useful thank you for posting
Saranya Jayakrishnan
wot is celery in tamil :O
Nikhanj
after extracting stock, what to do with the vegetables. can we use them to make soup ?
Raks anand
You can use though it wont have any nutrients
Balasanthanam pillai
can I pressure cook the veggies?
Raks anand
I am not sure what difference that could make taste wise, still, sounds like a good idea.