Vegetable Stock

Recipe from Bon Appetit

Ingredients

2ea                Yellow onion quartered (alternate with leeks or mix of the two)

3ea                Celery stalks roughly chopped

4ea                Carrots cut into quarters

3ea                Garlic cloves crushed

2ea                Bay leaves

1t                   Whole peppercorns

3 sprigs         Fresh thyme

1T                 Tomato paste or 3T tomato sauce

1T                 Dried shitake mushrooms or 1/4C fresh mushrooms coarsely chopped

1/2t                Kosher salt (Optional)

8C                 Cold water

Process

Place all of the ingredients into the pressure cooker

Pressure cook on high pressure for 40 minutes

Natural release

Strain out the solids and discard them

Store the broth in airtight containers