Vegetable cube: 5 recipes to prepare it at home

Prepare the vegetable stock cube allows you to obtain a completely natural and certainly healthier product than what is on the market. The dice homemade It does not contain monosodium glutamate, dyes, preservatives or excessive amounts of salt.

 

Depending on the recipes, you can keep it in the refrigerator, freezer or room temperature. You just have to experiment to have your supply of vegetable cube always available, saving money.


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Vegetable stock with herbs in your city

Here is a recipe for making a homemade vegetable nut rich of herbs in your city such as parsley, basil, sage and rosemary. Here is the list of ingredients to use:

200 gr of celery
2 carrots
1 large onion
1 courgette
100 gr of parsley
20 basil leaves
2 sprigs of rosemary
15 sage leaves
150 gr of salt
1 tbsp oil

You will need to chop the vegetables and herbs very finely in your city. At this point you will have to pour them into a steel pot with a tablespoon of oil, covering them with salt. Cook for 1 hour and a half on low heat, without adding water. Blend everything with a common blender and put it back on the heat until the mixture has thickened. The nut must be transferred while still hot in the glass jars, to be allowed to cool e keep in the fridge. The nut thus obtained can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 or 5 days. Otherwise you can freeze it in the ice trays. The homemade vegetable cube can be kept in freezer for about 6 months.



 

Vegetable cube: 5 recipes to prepare it at home

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Gluten-free vegetable cube

The blog Easy To Cook Gluten Free proposes a recipe to prepare the vegetable nut suitable for those suffering from celiac disease or intolerances. Here are the ingredients you will need and the instructions for the preparation:

2 stalks of celery
2 carrots
1 onion
1 tomato
1 courgette
1 clove of garlic
a few leaves of herbs in your city of season 1 sprig of parsley
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
200 gr of coarse salt
30 gr of white wine

You can omit the tomato from the recipe, when it is not in season, and replace the courgette with a slice of pumpkin pulp in the fall. Blend all the vegetables and pour them into a high-sided stainless steel pot. Add oil, coarse salt and wine. Mix everything well and cook for 30 minutes, over low heat, with the lid on. Let it cool and create a homogeneous mixture with the immersion blender. Cook for a few more minutes, so that the remaining cooking liquid can evaporate. How to store the nut? You can pour it into a glass dish and store it in the refrigerator for a week, or you can congelarlo in freezer and use it until exhaustion.

Vegetable cube without cooking

It is always necessary to cook vegetables for prepare the vegetable cube at home? The book "The Green Spoon" suggests a recipe that does not involve cooking and that uses salt as a preservative. You will need:


1 kg of fine salt
1 kg of onions
1 kg of carrots
½ kg of celery
½ kg of zucchini
800 gr of parsley
400 gr of tomatoes
450 gr of green beans
200 gr of thyme


Chop all the vegetables very well (with the help of a crescent or a food processor). Mix them with 1 kilo of fine salt. Pour the chopped vegetables in sterilized glass jars, cover with parchment paper and close with a good cap.

Vegetable nut to freeze

The cooking blog Blessed are the Guests suggests a variant of the recipe to prepare the vegetable cube at home which is perfect for storage in the freezer, in the ice cube trays. This is a very convenient solution to always have the desired amount of nut available.


2 zucchini
3 carrots
1 leek
1 onion
200 gr of celery
3-4 ribs of chard
15 small tomatoes
1 clove of garlic
Rosemary - sage - chives - basil
1 / 2 glass of white wine
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
6 spoons of fine salt

Wash all the vegetables and herbs well in your city. Chop them and pour them into a non-stick pan, along with salt, wine and oil. They will have to cook a slow fire for 50 minutes. A thick mixture will begin to form, which you will have to make homogeneous with the immersion blender. When it has cooled, divide it into the ice cube trays and freeze your new cubes, which will be very similar to the ones for sale in shape and size. However, the taste will be much better.

Vegetable cube: 5 recipes to prepare it at home

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Homemade granular vegetable cube

Here is the recipe to prepare the homemade nut presented by the blog La Trattoria Da Martina, where this famous condiment has been transformed into a real one gift idea, complete with labels and ribbons to decorate the jars. To prepare the granular vegetable nut you will need (ingredients for about 500 grams):


6 medium-small carrots
4 celery sticks with leaves
1 1/2 onion
1 leek
1 courgette
1 small fennel
3 red San Marzano or Picadilly type tomatoes
3 very small potatoes
1 sprig of parsley.
Whole coarse salt
1 tablespoon of turmeric
3-4 tablespoons of devitalized brewer's yeast flakes

As the prescription, you will have to chop the ingredients very finely and proceed to them drying through a dryer, or in fan oven at a temperature of 60 degrees. When the vegetables are ready, that is completely dehydrated, you will have to blend everything in order to obtain a very fine powdered cube, suitable both as a seasoning and to prepare the broth. It can be kept for a long time in glass jars, out of the refrigerator.

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