I recently caught an awful flu and was craving soup to make me feel better. I was feeling so terrible that I just wanted something I could easily heat up. Without much energy, I went to the local grocery store and searched among the various soups on the shelves. Much to my disappointment, every soup contained some sort of lectin! Rice, potatoes, noodles, tomatoes, and beans. Not one soup was lectin-free!
Frustrated, I reached for a vegetable stock and decided to throw my own soup together at home. Well, that didn’t work out so well either… each vegetable stock had either tomato or tomato paste as a base!
Thank goodness stocks are probably the easiest thing to make (vegetable or meat based) and taste worlds better when made from scratch.
Homemade Vegetable Stock
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 whole leek
- 1 whole yellow onion (leave skins on)
- 2 shole carrots
- 6 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 bunch Italian parsley
- 3 whole garlic cloves (leave skins on)
- 3 whole celery stalks
Instructions
- Cut all vegetables and most importantly, leave onion and garlic skins intact. I know this sounds odd, but there are wonderful vitamins and minerals in vegetable skins, so make sure you wash everything thoroughly.
- Place all vegetables in a crockpot. Fill up the crockpot with water until vegetables are completely covered (just about all the way to the top).
- Set your crockpot to eight hours on the low setting with the lid in place. That's it! You can do the same process with a stockpot on the stovetop on low as well but with the crockpot, it's safe to leave it alone without monitoring. I personally prefer the crockpot because I can set it and not worry about leaving it on if I have to leave the house to do something.
- Once the stock has simmered on low for eight hours, discard vegetables and reserve the stock in storage containers. You can use either use tongs to remove vegetables or pour the stock through a strainer.
This lectin-free and nightshade-free recipe is so easy and makes generous amounts of vegetable stock that you can freeze for a later date and makes an excellent base for any soup!
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