How to Make Vegetable Stock In The Slow Cooker

Vegetable stock in a white bowl with fresh carrots, celery, and onions in the background.

Making Vegetable Stock In The Slow Cooker is really simple and makes the most of using little bits and pieces of vegetables that you use in day to day cooking.

Vegetable stock is a great base for fried rice, risottos and even pasta dishes! To make vegetable stock really tasty, you need a good strong flavour base – so choose white onions, spring onions and leeks. Adding some seasonal herbs is a great way to infuse flavour.

Having stock on hand during winter is handy as it is the base for a many casseroles, stews and soups.

What’s great about making vegetable stock in the slow cooker is that you’ll just set it on the slow cooker and forget! Easy!

How to Make Vegetable Stock In The Slow Cooker

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
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Course: SoupsCuisine: AustralianDifficulty: Easy
Servings
+

4

servings
Prep time

10

minutes
Cooking time

8

hours 
Calories

30

kcal
Total time

8

hours 

10

minutes
Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

  • 12 cups Water

  • 1 tomato-sliced in quarters

  • 2 Carrots-chopped

  • 1 Onion-cut in half

  • 2 Celery stalks-chopped

  • 2 Garlic cloves-roughly bashed

  • 3 dried Bay leaves

  • 1 tsp Peppercorns

  • 1 tsp Salt and pepper

Directions

  •  Add your onion base to your slow cooker with the 12 cups of water and allow the onion flavour to develop (cook on high for 2 hours).
  • Then, add your remaining vegetables. Carrots, celery and potatoes are the staple – but really add whatever is in season and on hand.
  • Season and allow the slow cooker to bubble away a further six hours. If you want a richer vegetable stock, add some milk or cream at the end and then reduce.
  • Strain and discard the solids then use immediately or let it cool then freeze.
Vegetable stock in a white bowl, perfect for cooking and soups.
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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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