Save These Veggies (and Avoid These Others) for Your Homemade Vegetable Broth

Did you know that you can save the scraps of vegetables to make homemade veggie broth?? Save this video to remember which scraps to save when you’re doing your holiday cooking!
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Which Vegetables to Save for Stock or Broth
🧅 Onion & garlic peels
🥕 Carrot & parsnip tops & peels
🥬 Celery ends & tops
🥔 Potato peels
🍅 Tomato stems
🥕 Butternut squash peels
🌶 Jalapeno or other hot pepper stems
🥒 Zucchini and summer squash ends & peels
🧄 Mushroom stems
🦴 Veggies which are almost – but not quite – going bad
🌿 Fresh or dried herbs you love
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Which Vegetables are NOT Recommended to Save for Stock or Broth
🦴 Moldy food or food which is going bad
🪨 Peels with dirt
🥦 Cruciferous veggies: Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, or kale
🫑 Green bell peppers
🌿 Fresh cilantro
🏝 Salt
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Happy food saving,
Dietitian Ann

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[lyrablack]

I put bell peppers in mine and the bitterness was so bad I had to dump it 😔. It smelled so good!

[silicon]

Great tip for saving fr.

I no longer throw my scraps and always get free broth

[Manifold_Himilsbach]

I also recommend not adding too much onion skins.
It was bitter i threw it out

[Mr.freedom_]

Thank you so much for this very useful informal👏🏾👏🏾

[rayashines]

Thank you for this video and all the super helpful tips

[andreeagoldstein]

I'm sorry, English is not my first language. I love your videos but what is veggie broth. I mean I know how it's made thanks to you but how do you use it? Maybe its the base of your soups?

[AishwaryaChourasia-shbf]

Can I use only onion, garlic, ginger and carrot peels???

[Aditithelittlehobbit]

Is it okay to add mushrooms and gourds?

[vincentgeiszler]

What a delightful little man! He definitely likes you a lot, he just needs some patience, which you seem to have in spades! Wonderful job!

[Sabrina-sxfl]

I used the exact veggies you showed (carrot scraps, onion + skin scraps, garlic + skin scraps, some chives that were a bit older) and it ended up tasting absolutely horrible :( I've done it now two times (first time with potato peels and then avoided them 2nd time because I read they may cause bitterness) and it tasted extremely bitter and disgusting.. I don't know what to do anymore because it were the exact vegetables you showed were okay for the stock :(

[xyz]

WHAT ABOUT LEMON AND LIME REMAINS AFTER JUICING? THANKS! HOW ABOUT SECRET OR UNDERRATED OR OVERLOOKED OR COUNTER-INTUITIVE OR STRANGE AND YET DELICIOUS INGREDIENTS? THANKS! (despite the all caps I was silent while typing this, just screaming on the inside. Cheers!)