Make amazing bouillon with leaves of celery | Onion and Carrot | Charles Dowding
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- Make amazing bouillon with leaves of celery | Onion and Carrot | Charles Dowding
How you can preserve the beautiful green of summer vegetable leaves. Just the leaves in this case. Harvest, dehydrate, blitz and add flavourings.
The celery is Greensleeves and I sowed it late February, transplanted 1st April with fleece over. It's been giving great harvests since June and was much improved by a lot of rain this summer. The stalks became more tender.
Nantes carrots were sown early April by Ellie from Atlanta, and not thinned.
The perennial onion is from a plant sometimes called Welsh onion.
All vegetables here are no dig, growing quickly and easily. Little time is needed for weeding thanks to the soil being undisturbed. Soil health and fertility is from an annual dose of 3 cm/an inch of home-made compost.
Filmed and edited by Edward Dowding at Homeacres, Somerset UK, August 2023.
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00:00 Intro and how to prep for drying
00:50 Onion leaves
02:02 Prepping carrot leaves
04:10 Celery leaves, destalking
05:36 Drying options, dehydrator vs oven, or sunshine
06:37 Four hours later
07:44 Weighing the result
08:23 Credit to Heidi and her Homeacres song
08:46 Extra ingredients
10:01 Blitzing in the kitchen processor
11:40 Finished bouillon and I last it
12:12 Recipe discussion
15:05 Ideas for using and storing
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Love when the gardening channels I follow make videos on how to *use* the abundance they grow. Would love to see more videos like this!
Me too!
Me too! Thank you!
Ditto!
I am glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Loved the video; as always.
For long term storage - over a month - I'd recommend storing it in an air-tight container in the freezer for that first month. Otherwise you can occassionally come back and find that some bacteria, or fungi, that were left in the mix, although weakened, had just enough life left after being dehydrated to eat the powder themselves. It's still a powder, but not something you would want to use.
Also, if you are dehydrating chunkier pieces, again for long term storage, then it's good to do something called 'normalisation'. Dehydrate the vegetables as normal, put them in a sealed container for a couple of days, then dehydrate them again. The resting stage causes any deeply embedded water to distibute itself amongst the rest of the material, and that can then be fnally driven off in the next dehydration - which will not take long (then to the freeze for a month).
I dehydrate and store my veg and herbs individually, and then mix them when it comes time to use them. Then I have one big container for what I label - generic green stuff - and that makes a great soup or stew base in its own right.
Oh, and although they look pretty in jars - always store in the dark. :-)
Thank you!!! These are invaluable tips. I always worry about that little bit of moisture that may remain. I dehydrated cherry tomatoes and ended up freezing them just to be safe. I did dehydrate zuchinni chips that dried nicely, amd stored them in jars that are vacuum packed, but didn't know about needing to stay dark. Lessons learned.
@@joanies6778 Thanks for the lovely reply - none of my suggestions are absolutes, but they will help things degrade more slowly. The light, is an energy source, you may notice that greens are less green after a while and that bleaching is also degrading the nutrients. There's no reason to not have things out for show if you are using them quickly or like the look - I'll admit that I do, but othewise I store in a cupboard, or pantry. I'm no expert, but these are things I've picked up over the years after being burnt. I'm really hoping that Charles will do a pressure canning video at some point.
Good point
My big jar of dehydrated greens lives in the fridge. I dry in the air fryer. I harvest in cold weather when there are fewer bugs. Love soup, never buy any.
Amazing advice, thanks Kenneth
Making sure that all tiny bits of plants end up in compost - this is what I call a master gardener. Good job Charles!🖖
Thank you
Definitely going to give this a try in 2024 garden season
Great to hear 🙂
Thank you for letting us all into your world Charles.
That does look delicious and ideal for winter.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
My pleasure 🙂
Very interesting Charles. I bet that would be great to add to soups in the winter also.
Another 20 degrees and this is the Chuckie D cooking channel! Add beverages and it’s a survival channel! Only messing. I’ve nothing but love and appreciation of your teachings. Thankyou
Deal! Nice humour thanks
Nice! 👍
Would love to see a "Charles Dowding kitchen corner" type of thing! Maybe some old school food preservation skills. It would be a cool thing!
One of the best ways to reframe weeding in your garden is to think of it as collecting more inputs for your compost heap.
Wonderful video! For those who don't have time, Seitenbacher Vegetable Broth and Seasoning (Amazon) is a healthy alternative to other commercial broth mixes. Ingredients: Nutritional Yeast extract (yeast salt), carrots, onions, turmeric root, garlic, parsley, leek, rosemary, lovage, celery, pepper, balm, dill, paprika. You have been an inspiration. Our harvests are so much more abundant with your no dig. Miraculous!
Thanks for this and lovely to hear :)
That’s a great way to use the whole vegetable. Also, without the additives it sure is a nice alternative to packaged “food”.
The dream of every gardener ❤️ to capture the sunlight essence of summer, to ward off the cold dark of winter…. Drop a couple fat potatoes in that stock and bake em for me
Nice comment Travis!
Charles, you're a star! I love the experiment, and some great suggestions from the audience!
Thanks 🙂
Thank you Charles for explaining healthy food from your NoDig garden. It makes your channel more and more complete.
Thank you Robert
Hi Charles, I use Enchevita in mine as well. I also add dried Garlic, and elephant garlic, powdered beans, courgettes, herbs, chives, and anything I may have that I dehydrated the year before but didn't use as well. I store it in a big Kiner jar. I never buy stock cubes these days. Fabulous video, thank you ever so much for doing this. Stock cubes, and bought in stock powder have so many additives, as you so rightly pointed out! I have also used dehydrated mushrooms in it for that umami flavour. Thanks again!
Lovely tips Amanda :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you, Charles :). I do the onions and garlic outside haha
Oh yes, I made my boullion last year also adding green leek tops, adding yeast flakes is a great idea for next batch, thanks so much Sir Charles!
I've been trying for years to convince Charles to eat leek tops instead of composting them, but no joy yet!
😂 getting there Ruby
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You're so brave!!!
There's no other channel that I've learnt so much from on the whole of CZcams. This is an excellent idea! 👏🏻 I try to use as much as possible from my garden and am always looking for new ways to capture (and store) the delicious results of my hard work. Thanks so much for your continued contribution to everyone's knowledge on how to grow delicious, cheap and nutritious vegetables. 🙏🏻
I'm happy to see this, thanks George 💚
Such a great teacher and gardener 😊😊😊
That's very kind, thank you 🙂
@@CharlesDowding1nodig this is my 3rd year watching and learning so much,you have changed my whole way of thinking, thank you so much ,you are the best,god bless and take care 🖖😊
That's great to hear Elijah 🙂
Thank you for an excellent idea. I'll echo Kenneth's suggestion-store the dried items individually in jars for a week or so then re-evaluate for complete dryness. Deep moisture will migrate out and cause spoilage if not removed. The presence of salt can mask the moisture. Also bear in mind your intended usage with respect to non-green additions. If you want a drinkable bouillon adding salt and other flavorings makes sense. If you want to add as a seasoning to cooked dishes then the greens alone will be just fine as you'll be adding salt and other seasonings according to the flavor of the dish. It's more versatile that way, or if you're fortunate to have an abundance, do both.
But doesn't the salt also help with preserving the whole lot?
@@Lockenbock Not if it's fully dry, it's no different than any dry herb. My worry would be the salt may not be a sufficient ratio to protect from mold if there's any residual moisture, but you have a valid point. I'm very careful with drying or brining, perhaps to excess.
Thanks Diana
I am looking forward to giving this combination a try. The nutritional yeast is a great idea. For those who are unfamiliar with it, it's a complete protein, provides all nine of the essential amino acids that your body can't make on its own. It's also commonly fortified with vitamin B12. Even if you are not vegan, etc, it really is worth having in your pantry. Just experiment with it by adding it to the things you make. ☺
Hi there. Im from New Zealand and Im not familiar with this yeast. I couldnt make out what it was called in the video. Is there a universal name for this product? Many thanks
Here in Canada it is called nutritional yeast. It is a deactivated yeast, usually a by product of brewer's yeast or made from the same strain, that can come in yellow flakes, granules, or a powder. In your part of the world I think it is called savoury yeast flakes or Brufax. @@carmellajames8331
well thats great well worth a go
Thank you! I think I will peel a carrot and a bit of parsnip to hasten the dehydration while adding sweetness. I can’t wait to try this.
Great idea! Grate them fine.
We use the carrot tops and mix in a tempura batter. It was amazing ❤❤
Great idea!!
Great idea I’ve been composting cabbage leaves and broccoli leaves, and also Brussel sprout leaves. This is just another good use for them.
Wonderful to have as many shelf stable options as possible.
It's lovely here in northern California today - 20° cooler than yesterday, and sprinkling! A mug of this would be absolutely perfect. A fabulous idea to consume more of what you grow!💚
So cool! Glad the weather is better for you, and your plants!
Super!! I will try...for sure. So much abundance. Free and healthy food. Love it.
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PS dehydrated grated carrots are a lot easier to process. You could add in dehydrated cucumber, courgette, and /or green leaves to the boulion mix.
Thanks for the tips!
Delicious. Brilliant!❤
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I was so inspired by this video that today I bought a small dehydrator. I routinely can and ferment vegetables, and thought, well, I should also dry things! I never miss an episode, Charles. Thank you.
Thanks Patricia and I wish you success and fun with that 💚
What a wonderful idea and something I will try as I too buy that vegetable stock.
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nice 4K footage charles, finally everything isn't so blurry!
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing
My pleasure Linda
Right then, I need to get myself a dehydrator. 👍🏼
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I would add the bouillon to soups and stews for enhanced flavoring. Thank you for sharing and now I have one more use for the dehydrator.
Great idea Sandy!
Wielkie dzięki, super sposób na wykorzystanie zielonych części roślin 😀🤗
Ah thanks :)
I’m excited to try this with Egyptian walking onion tops. I think this would be an excellent use for the fall growth that ends up dying with the frost.
Thank you so much I’m heading to the garden to pick celery leaves, carrot and onion to make this 🙏🏼💜
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I love all your recipes! ❤ Would also love a video about fermenting and pickling please. 🙏
Thanks - we put up shorts last Christmas czcams.com/users/shortspRVHRtbQu8g
As a lifelong professional chef - this bouillin is fantastic! Another good use for surplus carrot tops is pesto.
How do you keep it from being bitter? I boiled the leaves for a minute, first, which is supposed to take out the bitterness. It was still a tad bitter. I added a small bunch of basil leaves, which made it palatable. Any other tips? TIA
Well done you i loved the content of this vlog WOW Thank you.
So glad!
I had no idea carrot tops were delicious, so I tried some yesterday. I chopped them up and added a splash of apple cider vinegar and popped some on my taco. They were absolutely yummy!
Fantastic Heather 🙂
Another superb video Charles - thank for more inspiring content
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Your awesome Charles!
Thanks that is kind 🙂
That looks lovely!
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I love you, Charles Dowding! I'm going to have to try this! Thank you!
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Thank you so very much. I did this with things from the garden and it is something i am going to do every year that i am able to.
That's great and my pleasure 🙂
Thank you, I'm going to make this tomorrow.
Fantastic Susan 🙂
Love this! Simple and real! Nice seeing you barefoot in the kitchen! Haha!
Attic spaces are excellent for drying things.
Lovely! I will try this!
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Loved to see this! Next year I’m in!
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So inspirational Charles! I need to get a dehydrator. Really cool you used the carrot greens and celery leafs. I’ll have to try this out. I’m used to cooking stocks,soups and sauces from scratch. Then freezing them but that fills up the freezer quick. It would be nice to open a jar and get a head start on cooking. Save some space. Thanks for sharing ❤👨🍳🌹💐🌿🌱🥕🧅🧄
My pleasure and have fun 🙂
Masterchef here we come!
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A coffee grinder would work for that. It would have to be a jumbo model. It works on baked egg shells to add to the compost as well.
That is a beautiful song🦋much so with these lines that reminds us of the treasures we hold in the wonders of the our gardens. Thank you for the link!
Glad you enjoyed it and my pleasure
Didn’t want to watch and run. Loved this video! All of the cooking ones are fantastic and compliment your growing fabulously!
Thank you for your kind words 🙂 I am glad you are enjoying them
I dehydrate basil in my greenhouse in the summer....so I will give this a try too. Thank you.
A fantastic idea, I wish I had one ! I have to use the celery tops and chives as they come along.
Absolute genius video Charles. I've often looked at that boullion tin and wondered if I could replicate it in a healthier way. Now I know. Thank you 👌 hope you are making use of Dan's talents while he is with you
Thanks Tanya and yes we are eating very well thanks!
Thank you, I will definitely be trying that this year 😁🌱☀️
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Fantastic video! So many people don’t know that the leaves of many garden vegetables are edible. In addition to salads I use them in a number of other dishes. Sadly, almost no leafy greens will grow here in the heat of July and August. Never thought about drying them when they’re available. Thanks.
It's so fun that we were able to take a mini tour of your house!
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What a fabulous video, again! I am so going to do this with my new dehydrator, thanks Charles.
That's great to hear Walbira
Nice idea might try this
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Looks nice Charles. Great to preserve food. Cool shirt by the way, I like the colour.
Ah great!
😊😊picked up some nice salvage wood for so 4ft x 8ft raised beds they will be 2ft tall
I dehdrate beetroot. Boil beets, shredd and then dehydrate. Winner in smoothies. Will try bouillon
Since watching yourself and @spicymoustache I've bought a dehydrator to make my own dried goods. I especially love the bouillon thank you for all your videos. 🙏🏼
That's great to hear Electra and my pleasure
Every steps are well said, that's why I always watch your video Charles, it's a lot of work but I"m sure it taste very good.
Thank you Vera
So interesting Charles! I learned so much from watching this! Dehydrator will have to be on my Christmas wish list!
I am glad to hear this Karen 🙂
I couldn't understand what the white powder was. Beautiful garden! Mine is more wild and less productive, but i love her! Thank you for the recipe.
What a great idea! I've been composting my celery leaves (my celery plants are a couple of years old, they just keep growing ) this sounds so tasty! thanks for sharing your fantastic love of food & gardening, I love it
Wonderful to hear and thanks Kerrie
Thank you for the inspiration! I just made my own herb salt in pretty much the same way, but without the yeast. I will definitely have a go on the bouillon. One good and energy efficient way of drying herbs etc. is to put your car on a sunny day into the boiling hot sun with the windows closed and then put trays with things to dry inside, leaving the windows open just a little bit.
It really works good too!
Brilliant idea!
I'm thrilled to discover that my air fryer can be run at very low temperature, so I will not need a dehydrator after all !
A nice tip!
Thanks Charles, I would never have thought of doing this, we have a food drier and have dried tomatoes, mushrooms, apple & plums so will give it a go . We usually have a pot of the swiss Bouillon powder in the cupboard too !
Hope you enjoy!
WISH WE COULD CARRY WINTER RIGHT INTO OUR COMPOST BIN TO DECAY AND BE SPREAD A LITTLE AT A TIME THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE SEASONS !!!!! THAT WOULD BE GREAT !!!!!!
That is an amazing thought, I wonder where it might lead!
Amazing! I wonder if lovage would also be good for this. 😊
I think so! Strong flavour
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A fantastic way to use what would usually be compost material. I’ll be investing in a dehydrator.
I also make stock using carrot, celery, onions, shallots & a couple of chillies.
When it’s finished & strained I blitz the pulp & freeze in icu cube trays, it makes really good frozen stock cubes.
Fantastic!
Dried carrot, onion and celery tops in soup is delicious!
Stuff dries faster in a sunny window with a window air conditioner. I had good results drying cayenne on a string tied to a nail in the side trim for the window
Thank you for sharing your recipe and the process for making your bullion! What a wonderful way to add to the pantry and get the most from the garden! Blessings on your day Sir!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio
Glad you enjoyed it Carolyn
Love to see suggestions for using the whole plant. Dehydration is getting a lot more interest in the UK now.
(I do dehydrate celery stalks, but tend to can celery in small jars, mushrooms too, as the OH struggles with dehydrated ingredients.)
Que buenas ideas.Para caldo en Invierno lo veo estupendo con un huevo escalfado dentro y tú famoso pan 😂 Saludos desde Tenerife !! 👏🍅🥕🌸🥦🌿🫑🥒🌹🐞
Gracias Manuel, estoy muy de acuerdo!
A mirpoix! Thank you.
Rather than compost my celery seeding s...I grew them bigger and multi potted into a few pots. Plan is to use the leaves for casseroles etc......... Thanks Charles you've given me confidence and so now going to have a go with bouillon and use chives as no onion tops 15:52 😊
Sounds great Elaine 💚
Eine gute Alternative zum Jägertee , welchen ich im Winter genieße 😇
Danke für die Anregung.
Gruß aus der Eifel
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I never thought to use the carrot tops. I will try the pesto and freezing in ice cube trays to use in soups/stews. Thank you for the idea! I don't have a dehydrator, but will consider the bullion as a future experiment.
You can dehydrate in the oven! Lots of info on the internet
Fantastic video Charles. We've tried dehydrating curly kale to make them into healthy crisps before adding some smoked cayenne pepper but will have to try with some of the ingredients in this video. Quite often carrot tops, celery tops etc go to waste (or in our case onto the compost heap) but will definitely be trying your bouillon with them.
Thanks, and have fun with all that!
Great idea. I bet some dehydrated mushroom would add a nice flavor too.
Great idea
Great video. Absolutely fascinating! There will be a shortage of dehydrators on the market now, ha ha. Thank you Charles :-)
😂 Glad you enjoyed it
Coucou 👋🏻 👋🏻
J'adore vos vidéos, mais surtout votre potager 😊
A bientôt
Merci bien!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig de rien 😉
Hi Charles, perfect timing with this video as I'm about to create some herb blends. I have good success drying herbs and flowers by laying them thinnly on a rack (baking cooling rack) or wire mesh and put it on the seat of our car on a sunny day. It gets quite hot in the car! And in cooler weather, when the radiators are on I put the herbs/greens in fine mesh bags and hang above or in front of the radiator. When they feel crunchy I grind in a coffee grinder saved for herbs. They keep for ages stored in mason jars with a screw top. I dry greens like kale and other brassica leaves and now I want to make some blends with other herbs. I might try one jar with some nettles added for more nutrition!
Lovely tips Mary
And to think I already composted all the carrot greens. I still have parsnips and parsley... and daikon radish, and sage , too. I also have plenty of what we call nutrtiional yeast and sage and cilantro. Frost is in the forecast so I will get on to this tomorrow. My dehydrator consists of 8 2 x 4 foot racks which sit on a stand above my wood cook stove. My husband made all that.
This was a cool idea and I will not waste those carrot greens next year.
Lovely to hear, hope they dry nicely for you
If you have a vegetable juicer the left over pulp can be dried and ground to make bullion.... solves the carrot problem 🥕
Great idea, and I'm feeding it to the worms as well
We do so many homemade dishes in the winter (5 months worth) that would be an amazing addition for flavor...and added nutrients ☺️
Perfect Barry 🙂
I also make vegetable powders for use during the winter months, some of my fav's are tomato, capsicum and chilli. I store them individually so that I can vary qty used otherwise all your dishes end up tasting the same. Thanks for the green bouillon idea as I hadn't thought of that previously.
Fantastic Sharon, sounds great!
I've made a solar dehydrator ... I reckon I could do all of those leaves and then some on a sunny day in August ... it's probably the best thing I ever built ... gets tons of use and no electricity bill or carbon footprint!
I’m thinking about dehydrating a few stevia leaves and blitzing with it all, that should add some sweetness!! Stevia can be incredibly strong so blitz it in with caution. I’m in Adelaide Australia so our growing season is about to start and I have my stevia seeds ready to start and I’m going to experiment with them in my juices. Thinking the stevia will be a substitute for the sugar in boullion
Great idea, and you are right to be cautious, I even stopped growing it because the sweetness is so strong!
@@CharlesDowding1nodigyes it’s very strong, I still have very vivid memories of chewing on a leaf out of curiosity!! I think I could still taste it the next day 😂😂