Vegetable broth: simple and tasty!
Vegetable broth can be used asan independent dish, serving it to the table instead of soup. This broth is especially valuable in spring and summer, when there is a variety of fresh vegetables. But in the winter, the aroma of vegetable broth will not leave anyone indifferent. Vegetable broth can be harvested for future use, pouring it into bags and sending it to the freezer. On its basis, you can prepare soup or sauce. Preparation of vegetable broth is quite simple, and even an inexperienced mistress will cope with such a task.
In general, now we will understand how to prepare a vegetable broth.
To do this, we will first need vegetables. We take onions in the amount of 3 pieces, two leeks, half a kilogram of carrots and parsnips, 10 pieces of sweet pepper and black pepper peas, a bunch of parsley, a pound of celery and one head of garlic. The broth from such vegetables turns out rich and fragrant.
Pasternak is cut into large pieces. We clean from the peel of celery and cut into fairly large pieces. Sliced the same carrots. The more this vegetable in the broth, the more beautiful its color (but this is optional, not everyone likes a too pronounced carrot flavor in broth or soup). Onions are cleaned and cut into large pieces. Several lobules can be left untreated to give the vegetable broth a beautiful color. As for leeks, it is necessary to use its green part. Large cut and sent to a pan to the rest of the vegetables.
Prepared vegetables must be filled with threeliters of clean water and put the cook on a stove for a small fire. The resulting foam should be removed. After half an hour cooking, add garlic, pepper and greens to the vegetable broth. Cook for another half hour.
As a result of cooking vegetables all your taste and aromawill be given to the broth. Therefore, turning off the stove, vegetable broth must be filtered, and vegetables without regret to throw in the trash. They have already fulfilled their function.
If you use vegetable broth forcooking other dishes, then it is not necessary to pour it into the cooking process. If you prepare it as a separate dish, then during cooking, broth should be salted, and sprinkle with finely chopped fresh parsley before serving.
You can prepare broth for future use. To do this, it must be poured into special containers for freezing or in tight bags and put in a freezer. If you need to quickly cook soup or make a sauce, a delicious vegetable broth is always at hand!
For cooking vegetable broth, you canuse and other vegetables that you like. In addition, there is another technology for preparing this dish. Prepared, peeled and large-sliced vegetables should be fried in a dry frying pan, add pepper.
Put the vegetables in a saucepan, add bay leafleaf, parsley, dill or green onions. Pour all the water (3 liters). Cook on very low heat for two hours. Ready broth let us brew for an hour and filter.
Now you know how to boil a vegetable broth,to make it tasty and useful. In addition, these broths contain many vitamins and nutrients, strengthen the immune system and establish the digestive process. Vegetable broths are used in some diets. It is suitable for use on a fasting day. Useful vegetable broth for children, on its basis, you can prepare a delicious soup.
In vegetable broth for spicy tasteYou can add a variety of spices: thyme, rosemary, marjoram. As a vegetable you can use a trouser, turnip, cauliflower. It all depends on your abilities and taste preferences. Make the vegetable broth even more tasty will help the mushrooms added to it. For this purpose, suitable mushrooms or white mushroom. Mushrooms must first be put in salted water for a few minutes. Such vegetable broth will become a full-fledged dish, which can be served to the dinner table. Enjoy your meal!
