Many people want to know a universal recipe for vegetable broth that would be to the taste of every member of the family. However, far from everyone knows how to cook vegetable broth correctly.
Therefore, in this article we will tell you how to cook a vegetable broth, and lay out the most interesting recipes.
So, the simplest and most standard option is before you:
One and a half liters of water, Celery root, parsley root , 1 carrot, vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon. One onion, seasoning to taste, salt, greens - these are all the ingredients that you need to make a pleasant broth.
Boil water first. Then we drop the roots of celery and parsley. Solim. After 15 minutes, add other ingredients. During this time, you must prepare them: thoroughly rinse the onions and carrots, peel, finely chop the onions, grate the carrots. Fry carrots and onions over low heat. And only after frying they need to be added to the soup. Then season the water with spices at your discretion. If you cook the broth for medicinal purposes, it is better not to use seasoning, and limit the amount of salt to a minimum. Cook the contents of the pan for another 15 minutes. Then it is recommended to strain the dish. Before you take the broth for food, you need to chop the greens there.
But vegetable broths, as a rule, are not eaten naked. They most often serve as the basis for vegetable soup. We will tell you some of them recipes so that you can know why you need vegetable broth and how to use it in the kitchen.
In order to make you more interested, we found recipes from the cuisines of different countries. So, having prepared a vegetable broth, you can travel around the world - in terms of food, of course. The first country we stop in is Germany.
There, on a vegetable broth, potato soup with caraway seeds is prepared. First, prepare the vegetable broth (the recipe for the vegetable broth is given above), after filtering it, start cooking the soup: cut the potatoes in half, pour into boiling broth, and add cumin to it. When the potatoes are cooked, the pan can be removed from the heat. It remains only to knead the potatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. German soup is ready!
Now let's go to France and cook onion soup!
The recipe for vegetable broth is similar, cook and filter it. Then peel the onion and cut into halves, then cut into half rings. Then the onions need to be fried in butter, salted. Then chop the garlic, add it to the onion and continue to fry the mixture. Then pour it into the vegetable broth, cook, stirring occasionally. Pour in white wine and cook for another hour. While the soup is boiling, you need to fry the croutons with cheese. Serve soup to the table with these croutons! Bon appetite!
By the way, the recipe for vegetable broth may be different, for example, with the addition of mushrooms. For this you will need: celery, 2 carrots, parsley, 4 onions, 250 grams of forest mushrooms, 2 branches of thyme, rosemary, bay leaf, black peppercorns, 4 tomatoes, 4 liters of water. Cut into large pieces, celery, and parsley too. Bulbs, without peeling, cut in half. Cut the tomatoes into quarters. We put everything in boiling water, salt, pepper and cook. After an hour, remove from heat and filter.
Many are interested in how to make broth color lighter? Color is the result of cooking vegetables. However, often small particles of these vegetables still remain in the broth. It can be clarified if it is not filtered through a sieve, but through a dense cloth or gauze. The husk of onions gives a pleasant golden color to the broth; carrots make the broth red.
So, it doesn’t matter which vegetable broth recipe of these two you choose, they are both universal and suitable for medicinal purposes and to become the basis of any vegetable soup.