Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Summer Garden & Farmer's Market Broth


For the flavor base.  Use produce grown in your garden or organic produce from the farmer’s market for this extra fresh treat.

Onion skins, red onion skins in particular carry a lot of create polyphenol antioxidants

The outer leaves of leeks

Tough celery stalks 

Garlic peels

Ginger peels

Parsley stems

Tough stems of greens like kale and collards

Sweet bell & chili pepper tops and seeds

Corn cobs

Seaweed

Citrus peels & rinds

Eggplant peels

Potato & yam peels

Tomato trimmings

Woody herbs like bay, thyme, lemon grass and lemon verbena

Miso

Cooking liquors such as dry vermouth, sherry, marsala, madiera, red or white wine

Directions:

Combine all in a stock pot.  Cover w/ about 3 inches of water.  Cover the pot and set over medium high heat.  Set a timer for 15 mins.  When the broth comes to a simmer, reduce heat and simmer gently, uncovered for 15 mins longer.  Don’t boil hard or you’ll get a stock that tastes like lawn clippings.  Turn off the heat and allow to cool to room temp.  You can compost the cooked vegetable left overs as long as you keep the ratio of yard waste up.  Don’t add too many cooked vegetables to your compost.  I compost w/ worms and they seem to do fine w/ some cooked vegetables from time to time. 

If you want to lightly poach something to heat it and cook it gently this broth does double duty.  In this batch I poached a block of organic firm tofu used to make Avanti Matcha Aoli.  

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Blog post by Chef Mark Cleveland

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