CLEAN EATING: Homemade Veggie Soup Stock (granulated)

Yes, of course you can buy your veggie stock at the organic grocery, it's ok if you do that. It's even ok if you buy your usual Maggi, Knorr - whatever the brand is called - veggie stock.

Just make sure you avoid Glutamate and other enhancers...  I promise, this will be the difficult part!

With this homemade granulated veggie stock YOU can define the taste and - what's more important you can be sure about the ingredients.

I admit, it's quite time consuming, but it's worth it.

To start you have to buy quite large amounts of vegetables - huge amounts even...

My ingredients are:

carrots, yellow turnip, celery, parsnip, leek, onion, laurel, parsley (lots of), lovage (even more)

Chop all the ingredients as small as you can. Or put them in a cutter, slice them as thin as you can- whatever is easiest for you.

Put them on a baking tray (with baking paper) and spread them ---not to thick.

Pre-heat the oven to 50°C (=122F) max. 70°C and put the tray in - leave the door open a bit so the humidity can evaporate. Depending on How large your oven is, you can put several trays to dry. This will take some hours. Turn the veggies now and then and take them out when the are fully dried. The put the dried veggies in you mixer (I use a nutribullet) and shred them to powder.

Repeat that until all your veggies are dried. Then put the powder back in the oven to make sure, the last bit of humidity is gone. Add salt (sea salt, un-iodized ore stone-salt)

This is also a nice present!!! Simply fill the ready-made granulated veggie-stock in pretty glasses (no, that won't work with a glass of vegemite or Maggi-veggie stock :D )

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Grandma's Vegetable Soup (the not so vegetarian way)

My Grandma used to cook the perfect vegetable soup - it was not only a soup, that you eat as a starter - it was a whole meal. And because my grandma thought that nothing is "food" without meat - of yourse the vegetable soup was not toooo much vegetarian friendly ;)

This is also a perfect lunch in the office - simply throw everything in a pot, add some (selfmade!!) soup powder and water and....ready!

carrots red and yellow - fennel - potatoes - tomato - parsnip - smoked ham

Parsnips have healthy levels of minerals like iron, calcium, copper, potassium, manganese and phosphorus. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure by countering effects of sodium.

Parsley can provide much more than a decoration on your plate. Parsley contains two types of unusual components that provide unique health benefits. The first type is volatile oil components—including myristicin, limonene, eugenol, and alpha-thujene. The second type is flavonoids—including apiin, apigenin, crisoeriol, and luteolin.

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