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Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth

1 hour 10 minutes
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Posted:12/30/19
Updated:12/30/19
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VEGETABLE BROTH made with carrot tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot leaves provide amazing health benefits so they’re great to cook with!  

VEGETABLE BROTH made with carrot tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot leaves provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with!  

Ok, so you just picked your beautiful garden carrots!   They are gorgeous!  You grab the scissors and chop off the leafy carrot tops. And then it hits you – are you seriously just going to compost the carrot greens? 

No way!

With gardening, you put so much love and energy into every single plant.  Every single carrot has been nurtured.  Every single carrot has been planted, one seed at a time.  So with me, it breaks my heart to try not to use every bit and piece of that vegetable!

Carrots in Basket
Our fresh carrots just picked!

What to do with carrot tops?

That’s how this recipe started for me.  I was cutting off my carrot leaves and it hit me that I had to find a useful way to use them in the kitchen.  And no, I don’t mean some weird stir fry that tastes bitter.  I mean, a seriously good recipe that will become used every garden season in your kitchen.    So here it is…. 

Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth!  Print this recipe out and add it to your recipe box!

Can you eat carrot greens?

Yes, carrot leaves are completely edible.   Not only are they edible, but some European markets actually sell them!   Carrot tops can be bitter in taste, so that’s where the confusion comes from.  But long story short, you can eat them!

Ingredients for Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth

This soup broth recipe is so easy, I can almost 100% guarantee that you have all the ingredients!

First up, you’ll need carrot tops.    Any amount of carrot tops can work, and I will help you with the math to show you how much broth you can make with it (see that below).

Carrot Tops Recipe

Besides carrot tops, you’ll need water, salt and bay leaves.  See, I told you you had all the ingredients!

The first step is cleaning your carrot tops.   Most likely your leaves have dirt all over them, and we really don’t want to cook that in our broth.  You can clean it in the sink, but I like to easily clean my greens in my salad spinner.  The salad spinner is great (it’s my must have Summer tool!) and cleans all our vegetables so quickly! 

Carrot Greens Recipe

Carrot Greens Vegetable Broth Recipe

Add the carrot tops to a large pot along with water, salt and bay leaves.

This recipe is 1:1, that means 1 cup of water to 1 ounce carrot tops.  So if you have 8 ounces carrot tops, add 8 cups of water. If you have 2 ounces carrot tops, add 2 cups of water. Get it?  
VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

Bring the water and carrot tops to a boil and then cover with a lid and let simmer for 1 hour.  
VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

 After an hour, you’ll see how much they have broken down.
VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

And do you see that beautiful broth underneath?  Yup, that’s delicious vegetable broth waiting for you!
VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

The amount of vegetable broth this makes depends on how many cups of water you start with. In general, during the simmering process you will lose 1/2 – 1 cup of water.  So for example, for the 8 cups of water I used , this made 7 cups of vegetable broth.

VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

Once the broth is made you can use immediately in a recipe, or save it for later on.  If you’re saving it, I recommend freezing it in freezer bags.  When you want to use it, just take it out of the freezer and defrost it.  

Looking for more broth ideas? Make Vegetable Broth with Broccoli Leaves!

Recipes Using Vegetable Broth

Here’s some of my favorite recipes that can use Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth!

Vegetarian Collard Greens

Stuffed Pepper Casserole (substitute the beef broth with this!)

Cheesy Vegetable Soup

Cauliflower Pot Pie

Roma Tomato Soup

Kielbasa and Cabbage (substitute the chicken broth with this!)

VEGETABLE BROTH made with Carrot Tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot greens provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with! 

Carrot Peel Use Recipes

Want to go one additional step with the carrot love?  If you have carrots that are freshly peeled, you can add the peels to your broth too!

I hope you all enjoy this Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth! Happy gardening and happy cooking!

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VEGETABLE BROTH made with carrot tops!  This easy homemade recipe uses carrot greens to make a healthy vegetarian broth! Carrot leaves provide amazing health benefits so they're great to cook with!  
Cook Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
serves 7 cups

Ingredients

  • 8 cups water
  • 8 ounces carrot tops cleaned
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 bay leaves

Instructions

  • Add water, carrot tops, salt and bay leaves to a large pot.  Bring to a boil.
  • Once boiling, cover with a lid and turn to low. Simmer for 1 hour.
  • Pour the broth through a colander, catching the liquid broth in a bowl below.  Discard (or compost) the carrot tops. 
  • You can use the vegetable broth immediately or freeze for later use.  This broth is great in any recipe that calls for vegetable broth! 

Notes

This is a 1:1 ratio recipe.  For example, I'm using 8 cups of water to 8 ounces of carrot tops. If you have 4 ounces of carrot tops, use 4 cups of water.  
 

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 5kcal
Course:Soup
Cuisine:American
Keyword:carrot greens, carrot tops, vegetable broth
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  1. Corey says

    November 7, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    Can you can the brothV

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  2. DKM says

    September 26, 2020 at 11:46 am

    Actually, a bit of “dirt” (think “immune-enhancing matter”) in one’s stock pot is probably not a bad thing, presuming one is using organic produce. Then again, slug stock may be nutritious, but…slug? Dirt, though, dirt is immunity-boosting 🙂

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  3. Sherrie I Balfanz says

    May 17, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    You don’t mention how to can the broth for storing .but show it in a canning jar.

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  4. Jacques 7 says

    April 30, 2020 at 1:57 am

    I will try tomorrow to use my plentiful harvest ready carrot tops Your recipe sound so tempting

    Reply
  5. Barbara Karr says

    June 16, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    I NEVER find carrot tops in the supermarket! They are cut off before reaching the store. Having recently started to make homemade broths this makes me a little miffed. I love summer and the farmers’ market so I can use the whole carrot! Hear that produce people?

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      June 17, 2019 at 9:39 am

      That stinks Barbara! Sometimes the organic section has some carrots with the stops still on here. Perhaps you can find a farmers market around you that has the carrot tops?

      Reply
  6. Mandy says

    February 1, 2019 at 5:50 pm

    I’m so happy I found this! I can’t keep a compost pile because my puppies can’t stay out of it, so I freeze and use all veggie scraps to make veggie stock and I’ve added carrot tops before, but never used only carrot tops. I pulled carrots today and had enough to double this recipe. I can’t wait to try it! Thanks!

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    • Pamela says

      February 4, 2019 at 11:37 am

      Hey Mandy, I’m so happy to hear you’ll be able to put your carrot tops to good use! Enjoy the broth!

      Reply
  7. Peggy Guerin says

    August 19, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    The broth idea is super! I usually use my carrot greens along with some other “sweeter” greens to make a lovely green, fresh pesto.

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      August 19, 2018 at 9:34 pm

      I love the idea of making a pesto Peggy – thanks for sharing!

      Reply
    • dave says

      January 16, 2019 at 10:18 am

      Can you share how you make your pesto with this carrot top broth recipe? 🙂

      Reply

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