Vegetable Stock from Kitchen Scraps

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  • Prep Time

    5 mins

  • Cook Time

    5 hrs

  • Total Time

    5 hrs 5 mins

  • Servings

    6 cups

  • Calories

    30 kcal

  • Course

    Soup

  • Cuisine

    American

Vegetable Stock from Kitchen Scraps

Waste not, want not! This Vegetable stock is so much better than any store bought! You control the ingredients

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Ingredients

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  • 1 gallon bag vegetable scraps various
  • 1 herbs various
  • 6 cups water to cover

Instructions

  1. Label a gallon freezer bag. Every time you make a dish and have vegetable scraps, add them to bag.
  2. When bag is full, add vegetable scraps to 6 qt. crock pot or a dutch oven. Brussels sprouts stems, onion and garlic skins and ends and sweet pepper stems and seeds.
  3. Next, I usually clean out the vegetable drawer of any older vegetables. Asparagus ends, 1/2 of an onion that was old (but not rotted) and some baby carrots that have seen better days.
  4. Add any herbs that you have in the vegetable drawer, as well. Here I added thyme and sage.
  5. Add water just to barely cover. Cook on low for 5 or 6 hours or on high for 1 to 2 hours.
  6. Strain solids from the stock through a colander. Discard scraps. Use right away or place in freezer bags and freeze. The stock will freeze for many months.
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Notes

  • Keep a large freezer bag labelled in your freezer. As you are making other dishes, save all of the vegetable scraps you have. Vegetables that work well for vegetable stock are skin, leaves and ends of;
  • Add smaller quantities of stems of herbs, such as;
  • Add the strained solids to your compost pile.
  • Stock can be pressure canned to make it shelf stable. Follow the instructions in this article. 
  • onion
  • garlic
  • cauliflower
  • brussels sprouts
  • broccoli
  • carrots
  • celery
  • parsnips
  • squashes
  • parsley
  • thyme
  • sage
  • rosemary
  • oregano

Nutrition Information

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Calories 30kcal (2%) Sodium 12mg (1%) Calcium 8mg (1%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 6cups

Amount Per Serving

Calories 30 kcal

% Daily Value*

Calories 30kcal 2%
Sodium 12mg 1%
Calcium 8mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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