Homemade Vegetable Broth
People who follow the Gerson Therapy diet eat and juice large quantities of vegetables daily. For this reason, it’s easy to accumulate vegetable peels, healthy off cuts, stems and roots that are not used to make vegetable broth to be used in Gerson cooking. Since oils are not permitted and Dr. Gerson recommends waterless cooking methods, cooking some vegetables in a little broth or adding broth to dishes to get the right consistency is a great solution to enhance dishes and to put all the vegetable scraps to good use.
We recommend accumulating and saving your vegetable peels, cuts, and scraps in the fridge and cooking a fresh batch of vegetable broth every few days. That way you will always have homemade vegetable broth on hand for cooking or drinking.
Homemade Vegetable Broth
Equipment
- Mason Jars or Recycled Glass Jars
Ingredients
- Accumulated and reserved vegetable scraps and peels.
- Filtered water, enough to cover the vegetables 2-3 times as much.
- Fresh Gerson allowed herbs like parsley, parsley root, dill and cilantro.
- 1 clove Garlic
Instructions
- Save and accumulate all vegetable peels, scraps and cuts as you go along. Be sure to also save the stems and roots of herbs like parsley, dill and cilantro.
- Once you have enough place the vegetable peels and scraps in a pot and cover with 2-3 times the amount of filtered water.
- Make sure to add parley root and fresh parsley, cilantro and dill stems and a clove of garlic. Or, any Gerson approved herbs you like.
- Bring to a boil then turn the heat down and place the lid on. Simmer gently for 2 hours.
- Let the broth stand to cool down.
- When cool, strain the broth into mason or recycled glass jars. Store in you fridge to use for cooking or drinking.
