Recipe: Beet & Nettle Broth
Ingredients
- 8-12 cups water (must cover your veggies)
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 onion onion quartered (with skins)
- 1 bunch green onion chopped
- 2 garlic bulbs
- 1 yellow or orange pepper roughly chopped
- 2 in piece of ginger roughly chopped (with skin)
- 4 cup beet greens (can substitute other greens)
- 4 large or 6-8 medium beets quartered (with skin)
- 3-4 cup mixed chopped vegetables and peelings (carrots, celery, leek, cabbage)
- ½-1 potato quartered (with skin)
- ½-1 sweet potato quartered
- ½ cup dried shiitake mushrooms or 1 cup fresh shiitake mushrooms
- 1 Tbsp peppercorns
- 1 Tbsp dried oregano
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 in piece of turmeric roughly chopped (with skin) or 2 Tbsp ground turmeric
- 1 Thsp coconut aminos
- 1-2 whole nutmeg
- 1 Tbsp whole coriander seeds
- ⅛-¼ cup nutritional yeast flakes for extra flavor and vitamins
- ¼ cup dried nettle or 1 cup fresh nettle
- 1 fresh or dried Lion’s Mane mushroom
- (Optional) Himalayan pink salt to taste
Directions
- Add everything to a large pot or Instant Pot. If you are preparing this broth on the stove top, bring to a boil. Simmer covered for 2-3 hours. In the Instant Pot, use the manual setting for 40 minutes.
- Once everything has been cooked down, strain the liquid into a large bowl using a fine mesh strainer.
- Serve immediately with Himalayan pink salt, or cool for later. You can also freeze in mason jars for future use. Be sure to cool completely in the fridge before freezing.
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