Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker

Vegan, GF, Low-Sodium Vegetable Broth, packed with nutrients, and ready in just 20 minutes!

Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker
Diet Info: DF GF F LF Na LS VG V Fa

Vegan, GF, low-sodium, and surprisingly healthy.. this Vegetable Stock just needs 20 minutes of cooking and has ton of flavor to make all of your winter soups and stews even more delicious! 

The best part of making vegetable stock at home? You can really use any veggies/flavors of your choice and can still keep it low-fat and low-sodium. Bonus?! Without any preservatives and needs just 20 minutes start to finish! How good does that sound?

In my kitchen, every soup starts with a batch of vegetable stock (if I don't have some frozen already). To save time, I often make stock in pressure cooker. Pressure cooker not only saves time but also preserves the nutrients very efficiently. So today I thought to share my favorite stock recipe with you all! Plus, I'm also sharing some homemade secrets which make homemade vegetable broth much more than just soup-flavor-enhancer.

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Honestly, in my home, homemade vegetable stock (or broth) is much more than just a flavor-enhancer for soups and stews. I'm fan of making a big pot of pressure cooker stock every weekend during winters. A part of which certainly goes in flavoring soups and a part I freeze to use during the weekdays... plus a part we sip when just fresh out of the pressure cooker. No kidding! Fresh made vegetable stock is potent source of veggie nutrients and is popular remedy for common cold weather symptoms.

I fortify my homemade vegetable stock with fresh ginger, turmeric, and some herbs. These warm spices make veg stock a "winter health tonic". Sip a 1/2 cup of this soup and say good bye to all common winter weather symptoms! 

Homemade Vegan Vegetable Stock is a super food health tonic for winter weather. Check the recipe to learn how | chefdehome.com

Let me quickly sum-up the benefits of this Homemade Veg Broth:

1. Use it to flavor soups, stews, and even to cook flavorful pot of rice.
2. It is vegan, gluten free, low in fat (just a tsp oil) and has low sodium per serving.
3. Ginger, thyme, citrus (lime-Vitamin-C), and turmeric give this vegetable stock "winter health tonic" qualities. Sip a hot cup, just like tea to combat cold.
4. In hurry, heat a few cups of stock, add a tablespoon low-sodium miso paste, buckwheat noodles, some tofu, and chopped tomatoes to serve healthy and comforting Ginger-Miso Noodle Soup for dinner.
5. Freeze the extra stock to use for weekday dinner.

Homemade Vegan Vegetable Stock cooked in just 20 minutes in pressure cooker. Perfect to flavor soup and great health toniic with low sodium and almost negligible fat | chefdehome.com

Variations:
Vegetable stock is very forgiving by nature. You can really use any vegetables of your choice. Like I love replace:
1) Spinach with a bunch of fresh Kale Leaves. 
2) Add a small stalk of lemon-grass instead of lime juice for lemony aroma without lemon taste.
3) Replace onion with sweet leeks for a sweeter tasting veggie stock.
4) Add some garlic and black pepper for a sharp peppery vegetable stock.

Homemade Vegan and Gluten Vegetable Stock which is healthy and flavorful | chefdehome.com

I hope this veg stock recipe will help you make lots of homemade healthier soups this winter.

Wish you a happy and healthy week ahead. -Savita

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Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker

Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker
Total Time: Prep Time: Cook Time: Cuisine: American () Difficulty: Easy
Yields: 5 Cups - Serves: 5
(No. of servings depends on serving size.)

Ingredients

Vegetable Stock
Winter Vegetable Broth
Smart Swap: For a variation, you can also replace onion with sweet leeks.

Directions

  • 1. In pressure cooker pot, heat 1 teaspoon olive oil. (You can also use canola or just a spray or two of oil). Add onion, carrots, chopped tomatoes, and celery. Saute until onions and tomatoes are soft. (3-4 minutes). Now, add thyme, ginger, lime juice, cilantro, spinach, salt, and water then combine well.
  • 2. Place the lid of cooker and cook on high heat until pressure builds (if your cooker has pressure indicator then until first whistle). Now, lower the heat to medium-high and cook for 8 minutes.
  • Step for Recipe - Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker 3. After 8 minutes, (6-7 whistles), switch-off the heat. Leave the cooker aside for 10 minutes until pressure is fully realized. Once pressure realized, open lid, and pass the contents of pot through a fine-mesh or food mill. Discard the solids.
  • Step for Recipe - Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker 4. Store stock/broth in air-tight container in refrigerator for up-to one week. Or let it cool completely and the freeze in small portions for up-to 6 months.
  • Step for Recipe - Homemade Vegetable Stock in Pressure Cooker 5. For Medicinal Broth, Add some lime juice, crushed mint leaves in fresh made hot stock. Taste and adjust salt if needed. Drink 1/2 cup at time to help with cold or to simply warm-up in cold weather.
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2 Responses

  1. Wow, what a fast way of making stock. I usually do it on the stove and it take a fair bit of time to prep it for my meal I'm going to cook with it. Super fast and still tastes good. Thanks for all the time you just gave back to me.
    thanks, Eric for your wonderful feedback. I've been making stock in pressure cooker from quiet sometime now and it sure is great time saver! I'm really glad you like the recipe and it will help you save time too. Time is money! :) Have a wonderful day! and Happy Cooking!