Vegetable Stock: Homemade Tastes Twice as Delicious

In this practical tip, we will tell you how to make vegetable stock yourself. You can conjure up a delicious base for soups in no time at all.

Homemade vegetable stock – that’s how it works

With a vegetable stock, you have prepared yourself, you can cook delicious soups, ragouts, or sauces. With this recipe you are guaranteed to succeed with the vegetable stock:

• The ingredients: 400 g celeriac, 1 leek, 400 g carrots, 1 onion, 1 tomato, 3 sprigs of parsley, 1 sprig of thyme, 1-2 bay leaves, 3 sprigs of lovage, 2 cloves, 2 juniper berries, 2 allspice berries, 1 teaspoon black and 2 tbsp salt.
• Peel the celeriac and the carrots and then cut both into large pieces.
• Clean the leeks and cut them into pieces of about 3 cm.
• Halve the unpeeled onion and tomato.
• Put the vegetables with all the spices and herbs in a large saucepan and boil them with 3.5 liters of water.
• Let everything simmer on low heat for at least 1 hour.
• Finally, pour the vegetable stock through a sieve and collect the liquid in a saucepan.

Vegetable stock and vegetable broth – that’s the difference

Vegetable stock and vegetable broth are fundamentally similar. Nevertheless, there is a small but subtle difference:

1. The vegetable stock has a longer cooking time than vegetable broth. As a result, the stock tastes much more intense and contains less water than the broth.
2. With a vegetable broth, you can usually process the various ingredients further. With the stock, the vegetables can no longer be used for other dishes due to the long cooking time.