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two jars of vegetable broth with greens, carrots and onion next to them on counter

Easy Vegetable Stock

An easy way to make your own vegetable broth so you never have to buy it again!

Course Soup
Keyword broth, soup, stock
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 5 minutes
Author Jennifer

Ingredients

  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 medium onion
  • 3 chopped carrots including peels and ends
  • 2 stalks celery
  • 8-10 cups vegetable scraps
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 tsp thyme
  • 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 12 cups water

Instructions

  1. Roughly chop any extremely large pieces of frozen veggies.

  2. Place your scraps into a large soup pot and cover with 3 quarts of water.

  3. Stir in your salt, pepper, nutritional yeast and thyme.

  4. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce to a simmer. 

  5. Simmer for 2-3 hours. Avoid stirring so that the vegetables don't turn to mush. 

  6. Strain into mason jars and refrigerate or freeze.

Recipe Notes

-Although I included additional veggies besides the scraps, this is totally optional. I've found that I don't need to add extra veggies to my bag full of scraps! You only need these extra veggies if you happen to have a whole bag of only one type of veggie. 

-Inspiration from The Minimalist Baker