Basic Vegetable Stock from The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook: Where Asia meets the Mediterranean by Michael Daniel

Ingredients

• 2 carrots, roughly chopped
• 3 celery stalks (with any leaves), roughly chopped
• 1 large onion, quartered
• few parsley stalks or any herb trimmings (leaves, stalks and washed roots)
• 2 bay leaves
• small handful of black peppercorns