Crockpot Vegetable Broth

Total Time: 8 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 gallon vegetables, peelings and ends
• 12 black peppercorns
• 2 bay leaves
• water, as needed

Recipe

• 1 start with a gallon-size bag of vegetable peelings (potatoes; any kind of onion - yellow, , green shallots etc,; zucchini,and carrots). as you have them, add them to a freezer bag and put them into the freezer, adding more until the bag is bulging.
• 2 when ready to make, put the frozen vegetables into a large slow cooker/crockpot. i have a large oval crockpot. add remaining ingredients, filling the water to the top of the crockpot.
• 3 cover and put the crokpot on high and cook around 8 hours.
• 4 turn off heat and let cool.
• 5 strain the vegetables, pressing out as much of the juice from the vegetables as possible.
• 6 either use or freeze for another time.
• 7 sometimes you see vegetable broths with lots of seasonings in them, but that can ruin the recipe that you are adding the broth to, so i make a very lightly seasoned broth.
• 8 a chicken broth can be made by putting a whole chicken (or pieces) into a crockpot. if you want to add a few pieces of celery and/or carrots to the chicken you can, but that is optional.