Recipe: Eating on a Dime Veggie scraps sauté

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Veggie scraps sauté Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Veggie scraps sauté. Great recipe for Veggie scraps sauté. Didn't feel like cooking a big dinner and wanted to use up veggies before I forgot about them and would have to toss them. Took no time to make and enjoyable to eat 😊 Heat a teaspoon or two (or more, depending on volume of vegetables) in a stock pot over medium heat and saute the scraps for a few minutes, then cover with enough water so that it all can be.
Other than water and your frozen scraps, you need very little to complete cooking except for a quick sauté.
You can do this in the same pot you'll simmer the stock in.
Once oil is hot, add heartier veggies (onion, carrot, celery, garlic, beets; whatever you want to use!) and stir to coat with oil.
You can have Veggie scraps sauté using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Veggie scraps sauté
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Prepare 1 of beet + its greens (I roughly chopped the beet and left greens whole.
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You need 1 TB of minced garlic.
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You need 1/4 of diced onion.
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It’s 1 TB of hemp hearts.
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You need 1 TB of crumbled Feta.
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Prepare 3 of mushrooms chopped.
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It’s 1 of egg.
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It’s 1 slice of bread of choice.
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You need 1 TB of olive oil.
Add your more fragile vegetables (carrot greens, beet greens, radish greens, kale, herbs, etc.) and some salt and pepper.
Flavor your soups and saute vegetables with this easy low salt home plant-based vegetable broth made from your veggie scraps or fresh produce.
Remember that you can mix up the combination by adding or leaving out any of the ingredients listed or use what you have on hand.
Some scrap vegetables, like carrots and mushrooms, add delicious flavor to a red sauce.
Veggie scraps sauté instructions
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Heat olive oil & garlic on medium low heat. Add mushrooms, beets, greens, onion sauté until softened (7 mins-ish)..
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In same pan fry egg. Toast bread..
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Serve egg on bread, pile on veg. Sprinkle with hemp hearts and feta. Salt and pepper to taste..
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This pic was taken with horrible lighting (and beets make everything look red) but it really is savoury and delicious.
Dice and sauté the veggies first before adding them to the sauce.
It's fun, free, sustainable, and delicious.
So before you throw out those food scraps, check to see if it's something that you can regrow in your home.
Make it a fun experiment for the family!
Green onions are arguably the easiest and most popular vegetable to regrow.