If you want to lose some weight for the holidays, become a nutritionist, or just love vegetarian options, you need to know how to cook vegetable broth. It is prepared very simply and, most importantly, quickly.
It is necessary
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- any vegetables of your choice
- spice
- salt
- water
- pan.
Instructions
Step 1
Take equal proportions of cabbage, carrots, zucchini and pumpkin. For dressing, you will also need some onions, dill and parsley.
Step 2
Place the water over medium heat. At this time, rinse the vegetables, cut them into fairly large cubes. When the water is hot, add the chopped vegetables to the pot.
Step 3
Leave the vegetables on low heat until boiling. If foam appears, remove it. When the vegetables boil, salt to taste, then reduce the heat to minimum, add onions, parsley, dill, spices to taste and let the broth simmer for 20-25 minutes. Onions, parsley and dill can be fried separately in olive oil and put into the broth as they are.
Step 4
After 20-25 minutes, when the taste and aroma of vegetables has boiled down and goes all into the broth, remove the broth from the stove, leave for another 20 minutes to infuse.
Step 5
This broth can be used in the form of a vegetable soup, you can strain and use only the broth. Do not throw out the vegetables, but use them as a side dish.
Step 6
You can use any set of vegetables to cook vegetable broth. Feel free to experiment, substitute and add different vegetables. The more there are, the tastier the broth will be. You can try to put cauliflower, and celery root, and tomatoes, and bell peppers, and peas, and cabbage stumps. Anything your heart desires. The same goes for spices. If you like soy sauce, season the broth with it. If you like different peppers, add black pepper, allspice white or hot red.
Step 7
Vegetable broth is also good because you can boil it for future use, pour it into bags or containers for freezing, put it in the freezer, and you will always have a ready-made dish at hand. It is recommended to store it for no more than four days.
Step 8
On the basis of vegetable broth, you can prepare other soups and dishes. For example, puree onion soup.
Step 9
Boil the vegetable broth or defrost the one cooked earlier. Peel 4 large onions, chop as small as possible. Heat any oil in a saucepan and put the chopped onion there. Simmer until the onions are tender. To prevent onions from burning during stewing, you can periodically add a little broth to it. Add 2 tablespoons to the stewed onions. flour, mix, salt, pepper, add a pinch of sugar.
Step 10
Heat the broth, add it to the onion and cook this mixture for 25 minutes. After these 25 minutes, add 100 g of processed cheese or 100 ml of heavy cream to the soup. Simmer until cheese or cream is dispersed. Bring the soup to a boil and remove immediately from the stove. Cover the soup with a lid and let it brew. At your discretion, you can add garlic croutons to this soup. Bon Appetit!
