Home made veggie stock cube

Sick of glutamate based stock cubes? (Trovi la versione in italiano nel post del 31/05/2016)
Here you have a quick and easy recipe for preparing your own vegetable stock cube

 

INGREDIENTS:

1 courgette

1 carrot

1 celery stick

1 white onion

1 garlic clove

plenty of herbs (basil, rosemary, mint, sage, laurel, thyme)

250 gr. of table salt (better if iodised)

 

PREPARATION:

1) Clean, whash and dice the vegetables

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2) Put only the vegetables (not the herbs!) into a frying pan. Cover and let them cooking for 20 minutes. Stir them from time to time.

3) Add the herbs and keep mixing the ingredients by stirring them sometimes (not too often!), but know without the lid. 

4) When the vegetables become sautè (a bit brown), pour the salt and stirr it up to all the ingredients are well amalgamated. Keep cooking for 15 minutes more.

5)  Take away from the fire and let cooling down for complete before to put the dough into the mixer.

6) Once you obtained a coarse-grained cream you can put into a (glass) jar and keep it into the refrigerator.

A dessertspoon of your cream is equivalent to a commercial stock cube.

If you prefer to have a cube, you just have to roll out the dough on a baking paper put into a baking baking tray.           
Bake it at 100°C for 20 minutes and, then, cut into small cubes (once harden). As fro the cream you can keep the cubes into the refrigerator.

--> The stock cube so preparared lasts at least for 3 months <--

This stock cube, that hasen’t anything of chimica, can be used to season your disse as well as to prepare at the last minute a scented winter soup.

You try it for yourself!!!