Homemade Gluten Free Organic Vegetable Broth

The winter is settling in and I am just in the mood to cook!
I want to make my favorite beans, shredded meat and soups.

I decided to make a Homemade Gluten Free Organic Vegetable Broth.  

After looking closer at labels recently I decided that most broths contain MSG.
I have a terrible reaction to MSG and know that others with Celiac Disease do too.
I wanted to know exactly what the ingredients were in the broth ... 

nothing hidden - NO MSG 

- and fresh!

So I decided from this point on, that I would make my own broth. 

Vegetable broth is a good base to use to cook meat, make soups or add flavor and nutrition to anything.
I tend to like a bit of kick or spice to my food, so you can omit the peppers if you want.
I would say the heat level with these Aji Peppers are a 2 (low) on a scale of 10 as the hottest.

Homemade Gluten Free Organic Vegetable Broth

1 bag Organic baby carrots
5-6 stalks Organic celery
1 Organic leek, chopped
4-5 leaves Organic kale
1 medium Organic yellow onion, chopped
1 medium Organic red onion, chopped
3 Organic garlic cloves, chopped
1 bay leaf
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp black ground pepper
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp dried clove
1 whole dried Organic Aji Amarillo Pepper Pod
1 whole dried Organic Aji Panca Pepper Pod
4 -5 cups cold filtered water
3 Tbs Spanish olive oil 

Cook all of the ingredients in a 5 quart Dutch Oven with the lid on at 325 degrees for 2 hours.  Take it out and let it cool completely on a cooling rack for 1-2 hours with the lid off before refrigerating.  I suggest putting it into a separate storage container about an hour after it has cooled.  This will help speed the cooling process.

Use a blender and fill it half way with the broth and vegetables.  Use the liquify or puree function to make the broth.  Continue this process until all of the ingredients are used.  It is best to keep the blender pitcher filled half way to 3/4 to allow for space to liquify the ingredients.

Look how gorgeous the color is from the Aji Pepper pods! 

So creamy too but no dairy.

This is Organic, Gluten Free and Vegan broth.

I love to freeze my homemade Organic Vegetable broth in freezer bags because they can lay flat in the freezer, taking up very little space.  I suggest marking the bag with contents - Organic Veg Broth and date made. Trust me on this one... it will look different and will be hard to figure out what it is or when you made it when it is frozen.  It will be such a treat to just grab it, defrost it in cool water and then make some soup, beans or slow cooked meat.
Speaking of which, I also made the following meals with this broth.  Click on the links below to see the recipes.

Slow Cooked Shredded Peppered Pork Shoulder


Spicy Slow Cooked Pussac Punay Beans


Aji Spiced Pusssac Punay Bean Soup with Kale


Pork Broth 


It is amazing how much food you can make from just a few Organic vegetables, spices, water, beans, meat and patience.
Enjoy!
Lisa