Home made vegetable stock / microwave vegetable stock

Every kitchen has a lot of scrap that can be put to good use. Sample a few mentioned below and let me know whether you disagree
  • Scrapings of cucumber, carrots
  •  Stems of cauliflower, broccoli, spinach
  •  Veins of cabbage
  •  Edges of leeks, spring onions, onions

Most of this is good source of nutrition and taste. You can collect them in a freezer bag over the period of few days. Stash it in the freezer until they make up a sizable chunk.
On a day with some leisure, you can throw them in a pot of water along with some other staples. Bring it to boil and let it stand for an hour
For those of you who have microwave at home ,life is lot simpler.



Ingredients (for about 400 ml stock)
1 large onion roughly chopped
1 large potato skinned , roughly chopped
1 leek (stem and greens) roughly chopped
Any other vegetable leftovers 
1 inch ginger (optional) I didnt add
few cloves of garlic
2 bay leaves
1 inch cinnamon (optional)
few pepper corns
salt to taste
1 tspn oil
Method
1) In a large microwave safe bowl, pour the oil, bay leaves, cinnamon, pepper, cloves and garlic and mw for 30-40 seconds.
2) Add all the other ingredients along with water(3 times the total quantities).
3) MW on high for 4 min. Watch every 2 min. If water is overflowing, reduce the quantity and add in every run.
4)Let it stand for 5 min.
5) Strain the water, mash the vegetables and extract as much juices as possible.
6)Take the strained juices and water in a sterilized glass.
7)Use as required or refrigerate.


This lasts well for a month. The stock does not go bad even after that but it may become sour due to the fermentation. It is still good to be used.


If I had ever asked you to use water in place of stock, then realize that I was asking you to eat a bread when you had asked for a cake.
Remember when you could use it in Risotto or pot pie

Comments

Srivalli said…
Funny how I have never shared this on my series..:)...very nice one P!
preeti garg said…
osume n useful product..
rajani said…
Pretty useful tip!
Harini said…
I should the MW version too!!
Surabhi said…
A very useful tip....:)
Usha said…
You are putting you microwave to good use..
Archana said…
Great to know I am not the only person who does this.
Priya Suresh said…
Definitely useful for many of us,love the way u prepared ur stock.
Very useful and informative post...
Suma Gandlur said…
Great way to use kitchen scrap as you mentioned. :)
Unknown said…
wealth from waste! :)....a good post!
Gayathri Kumar said…
Very informative...
Cool Lassi(e) said…
Lovely idea to make stock in microwave.
Unknown said…
Wow! This looks like a great money saver! Thanks for sharing. Looks so easy to make.
Lifewithspices said…
wow very useful one..
simran said…
wow!great tip........defi. start doing this..thanks
veena said…
That is very innovative!!!
Fairy Garden said…
nice one. tempting also.
very nice one .. bookmarked it ...

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