Vegetable broth: simple and tasty!

Vegetable broth can be used as an 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 the inexperienced mistress will cope with such task.

In general, now we will understand how to prepare a vegetable broth.

To do this, we will first need vegetables. Take the onion in quantity of 3 pieces, two leeks, half a kilogram of carrots and parsnip, 10 pieces of sweet pepper and black pepper peas, a bunch of parsley, half a kilogram of celery and one head of garlic. The broth from such vegetables turns out rich and fragrant.

Pasternak 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 should be poured in three liters of clean water and put cooked on a plate on 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, the whole taste and aroma will 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 the vegetable broth you will use to prepare other dishes, then it is not necessary to salt it in the process of cooking. If you prepare it as a separate dish, then during cooking, the broth should be salted, and sprinkle 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, tasty vegetable broth is always at hand!

For cooking vegetable broth you can use other vegetables that you love. In addition, there is another technology for preparing this dish. Prepared, peeled and large- chopped vegetables should be fried in a dry frying pan, add pepper.

Put the vegetables in a saucepan, add bay leaf, parsley, dill or green onions. Pour all 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 so that it turns out to be tasty and useful. In addition, such broths contain a lot of vitamins and nutrients, strengthen the immune system and establish the process of digestion. Vegetable broths are used in some diets. It is suitable for use on a fasting day. A vegetable broth is useful for children, it is possible to prepare a delicious soup based on it.

In the vegetable broth to add a spicy taste, you can add a variety of spices: thyme, rosemary, marjoram. As a vegetable you can use a trouser, turnip, cauliflower. It all depends on your ability and taste preferences. Make vegetable broth even more tasty will help added to it mushrooms. 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 dish, which can be served to the dining table. Enjoy your meal!