I’m not the type of girl that has enough freezer space (or the inclination) to store all my vegetable odds and ends and then remembers to boil them down into a broth and then re-store that broth in the freezer. Enter: awesome stock powder that almost tastes like chicken stock (gasp!) I first read about stock powder in a vegan cookbook (can’t even remember which one). I didn’t think much of it at the time. Then Holly at My Plant Based Family did a post on it and I ran to my kitchen and made changes with some Vedged Out flair. Here’s my rendition. Made hearty by the addition of dried shitake mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, more dried herbs and stuff like that.

Vegan Stock Powder

• 1 ounce dried shitake mushrooms
• 10 sun dried tomato halves (not the kind packed in oil) snipped into quarters
• 3 T. onion powder
• 1 T. garlic powder
• 2 T.  sea salt
• 1 T. raw sugar
• 1/2 t. ground black pepper
• dash cayenne
• 1 t. dried thyme
• 1 t. dried oregano
• 1 t. paprika
• 1/2 t. turmeric
• 1 T. dried parsley
• 1 t. mustard powder
• 1/2 t. celery seeds
• 1 C. nutritional yeast

Method: In a food processor, process the shitake mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes until they are very fine. Add all other ingredients. Process for a few minutes more. Just made this in my Blendtec instead of the food processor after reading Annie’s comment below. I highly recommend using a high powered blender instead of the food processor if you own one. Just dumped everything in the Blendtec and ran it through a couple of cycles on a 10. The result was a powder as fine as cornstarch with none of the graininess that I had experienced with the food processor. The powder stuck to the jar like crazy, so I emptied it out as best as I could, then added a quart of water and whizzed it all up to clean the jar. Viola. A quart of stock in my fridge for dinner tonight.

This stock powder stores perfectly in a pint jar in the pantry. Use 1 T. stock powder per cup of liquid in your recipes. If you don’t have the dried mushrooms and tomatoes on hand, this recipe is still good without, it just won’t have as much depth. If you can’t be bothered to make this than at least buy this delicious veggie stock base and stop wasting un-recycleable tetra-paks.

Thanks to all of you for all the love this last week and for helping me get my blogging mojo back.