Vegetable Stock Blend

I am always on the lookout for a new vegetable stock option. Buying the cans gets expensive, I don't like the taste of the broth in the cartons and when I make my own out of boiled vegetables, it never lasts very long. So recently I decided to try some veggie boilun cubes only to get them home and see that one of the ingredients is high fructose corn syrup. Same thing in the cans. Well, in an effort to reduce my intake of high fructose corn syrup I decided to take matters into my own hands. (And let's face it, I'll take any excuse to try something new in the kitchen)

So here it is, my own vegetable stock blend fresh out of the Healthy Heart Handbook. That little book is gaining some mileage in my kitchen, so far everything in it has been a hit!

The basic ingredients in the mix are nutritional yeast flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, a little salt and some Italian seasonings.


I mixed it all up in my handy dandy food processor so that it would make a fine powder:


I mixed in a little parsley at the end to give it a pretty touch of green. Zoey was going nuts in the kitchen while I was making this. She kept putting her paws on this purple table and squeeking but I couldn't get the timing and focus on my camera right to capture the moment.


So far I have used this in recipes that call for a little broth and it has been quite good. I just scoop some out and add it to water. The real test will come when it is time to make a soup with it, but so far I think this is going to work out well.

Special bonuses are that I can store it in a tubberware container, which saves space AND since the base ingredient is nutritional yeast flakes, the broth mix provides a mix of B vitamins. That beats high fructose corn syrup any day in my book.