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EASY 1-POT VEGETABLE BROTH
An easy, 1-pot recipe for homemade vegetable broth! The perfect way to use up vegetable scraps and skins to make delicious broth for soups and more!
Author: Minimalist Baker
PREP TIME10 minutes
COOK TIME1 hour
TOTAL TIME1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 10 (1-cup servings)
Category: Soup
Cuisine: Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Vegan
Freezer Friendly 1 month
Does it keep? 5 Days
Ingredients
1 Tbsp avocado or coconut oil (if avoiding oil, sub water)
1 onion (with skins // finely chopped)
4 cloves garlic (with skins // finely chopped // or sub garlic-infused olive oil)
4 medium carrots (with skins // finely chopped)
4 stalks celery (finely chopped)
1-2 tsp each sea salt and black pepper (plus more to taste // divided)
9-10 cups filtered water
1 cup chopped sturdy greens (kale, collards, etc.)
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 small handful fresh thyme*
1 small handful fresh rosemary*
2 whole bay leaves
3-4 Tbsp nutritional yeast (if you don’t have it, omit)
4-5 Tbsp tomato paste
Instructions
Heat a large pot over medium heat. Once hot, add oil (or water), onion, garlic, carrots, and celery. Add 1/2 tsp each sea salt and black pepper (amount as recipe is written // adjust if altering batch size) and stir to coat. Sauté for about 5 minutes or until softened and slightly browned, stirring frequently.
Add water, greens, parsley, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, and another 1/2 tsp sea salt and black pepper (amount as recipe is written // adjust if altering batch size) and increase heat to medium high until the mixture comes to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer and add nutritional yeast and tomato paste (add less of both for less intense flavor, or more for bigger more robust flavor!). Stir to combine and loosely cover (with the lid cracked).
Continue cooking for at least 30 minutes, preferably 45 minutes to 1 hour. The flavor will deepen the longer it cooks.
Near the end of cooking, taste and adjust flavor as needed, adding more herbs for herby/earthy flavor, salt for saltiness, pepper for a little spice, or tomato paste or nutritional yeast for "umami" and depth of flavor. In total, I added about 2 tsp sea salt and black pepper (amount as recipe is written // adjust if altering batch size) and all of the suggested amount of nutritional yeast and tomato paste (both of which add depth of flavor and make the broth rich).
Let cool slightly before pouring over a strainer into another pot. Then divide between storage vessels (I prefer glass mason jars). Let cool completely before sealing. Store in the refrigerator up to 5 days or in the freezer up to 1 month (sometimes longer). Perfect for use in soups, recipes, gravy, and more! Recipes listed above.
Notes
*Nutrition information is a rough estimate calculated with avocado oil, all of the recommended salt, pepper, tomato paste, and nutritional yeast and with half of the vegetables because they are strained.
*You can sub 1 Tbsp dried thyme or rosemary per small handful fresh herb.
*Recipe makes ~10 cups broth.
*Recipe inspiration from Jennifer's Kitchen.
Nutrition Per Serving (1 of 10)
Calories: 42
Fat: 1.6g
Saturated fat: 0.2g
Sodium: 486mg
Carbohydrates: 5.2g
Fiber: 2.1g
Sugar: 1.7g
Protein: 2.4g