Zero Waste: How to cook vegetable peelings, pods or roots?
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When you eat radishes or carrots, what do you do with the tops? If you are a "recycler", you compost them, and if you don't have the possibility, you throw them in your household waste! But did you know that you can make delicious recipes using vegetable tops.
Often discarded, these plants are nevertheless full of vitamins and mineral salts and we do not reuse them. Leek roots, potato peel, or cucumber skin, don't throw them away, cook them! Here are some recipes to learn to appreciate this waste which, in fact, is not waste at all!
The tops of carrots, turnips, radishes, beets, broccoli...
We don't necessarily know, but if you eat the root, the tops are vegetables in their own right. Three solutions are available to you for vegetable tops: salad vinaigrette, quiches or pies or pesto.
All you have to do is arrange your carrot tops according to your desire or quantity and add the following mixture to your shortcrust pastry:
Then place your fresh goat cheese on the tops… In the oven for 40 minutes at 210°! For the pesto, just mix your tops with olive oil, parmesan, garlic and a few dried fruits (almonds, hazelnuts)... On fresh pasta, it's a delight for the taste buds!
Cucumber peelings
This vegetable waste cannot really be cooked. On the other hand, they can flavor plain water with added lemon juice. Just leave the peelings to infuse for a few hours in the water. And incidentally, the peelings can serve as concealer by placing them under the eyes!
Broccoli stalks
You never know what to do with these often quite tough rods. However, they are cooked like asparagus and have a slightly more pronounced taste. Simply immerse them in boiling water for a few minutes or steam them. A little olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon. Here is an original entry and zero waste!
Pineapple rind
In Africa and Guyana, locals make beer from it! Just mix with the bark, chopped ginger, water and leave to macerate for three to four days. Then, you have to filter the mixture, add a little sugar or cinnamon and enjoy!
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As long as they are perfectly cleaned, they can be fried in hot oil. Then crumbled or even whole, they will add crunch to a summer salad!
Citrus peel
Citrus peel simply flavors a dessert or water. But they also offer the possibility of making jams or jellies.
A chocolate orangette recipe that is easy to make and just delicious. For 500 grams of orangettes, here is how to make them:
Wash the rinds meticulously to remove all traces of pesticides if your oranges are not organic! Place your peels in cold water, then boil them for 5 minutes. Repeat the operation once to remove the bitterness from the bark. Drain the peels and let cool. Cut thin strips of bark then make a syrup with the sugar and water. When the mixture comes to a boil, immerse the orangettes for 5 minutes. Melt your dark chocolate in a bain-marie and immerse the cooled bark to cover them completely... Leave to cool and enjoy with a coffee, for example!
Pea pods, broad beans...
These "waste" are also vegetables in their own right, so they can be cooked as such... Steamed or boiled then boiled olive oil and seasoned like green beans… With parsley, garlic, salt and pepper… Simply good!
Apple, pear and potato peelings!
Crisps of course! Just wash them, dry them and then bake them in the oven. 15 minutes at 200° and it’s ready… Then just add salt to the potatoes, cinnamon to the apples or caramel to the pears…
Simple, fast and zero waste! To make crisps of all kinds of vegetables, you can also invest in a small food dehydrator... It's practical and the crisps are always successful!
(Almost) zero waste peels and tops - 70 recipes to add value to everything 12.95 EURThis article contains one or more affiliate links. Neozone.org earns a percentage commission on the sale of affiliate products, with no increase in price for the user. For more information see our legal notices. Tagsvegetable recipeNathalie KleczinskiApril 9, 2021Last updated: April 8, 20210 3 min readShare Facebook Twitter Linkedin Pinterest Messenger Messenger WhatsApp Share by email
