Zero-waste cooking: Read this before throwing away vegetable peels

Have you ever paid attention to your chopping board while chopping vegetables? If you have noticed, you must have seen that every day we throw a large part of our vegetables in the dustbin. Imagine, if we had cooked those parts too, how much less wastage of food would have been? This is what the world calls ‘zero-waste cooking’. In recent times, zero-waste cooking is something that chefs around the world are talking about. Restaurants around the world waste several million tons of food every year. Even in every household, we cut almost half of the vegetables we buy. Therefore, zero-waste cooking is something the world is paying attention to. It is about cooking each part of an ingredient, especially vegetables that we buy from the market.

Here we have brought for you some vegetables which can be cooked without wasting even a single part. read on.

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Zero-waste cooking: 4 vegetables you can use without wasting even a bit:

1. Bottle gourd (Bottle gourd,

Usually we peel the bottle gourd and throw it in the dustbin. Instead of doing that, what we can do is cut it into thin pieces and deep fry it along with nigella seeds (nigella seeds) and salt. Bottle gourdSkin fry with boiled rice and ghee tastes incredible. It is a very common food in Bengali households. even of gourd The leaves and stems are edible. Like Mustard Or Eyelid, gourd greens The taste is really good too.

2. Cauliflower:

Although it is one of the tastiest winter vegetables, we throw away more than fifty percent of it or feed it to cows and other animals. This is a good thing; But if you throw away the cauliflower stalks, stop. Again just cut them into pieces, steam them a little and make a Vegetable (mish-mash) with it. try and cook Vegetable With some mustard paste. Surely, it will not fail to satisfy your taste.

3. Potato:

It is said that potato is a vegetable which can be consumed with anything. It is the most neutral of all the vegetables available in the market. If the potato is like this then how can its peel remain behind? Cut the potato peels finely and deep fry them. You can use that crunchy potato peel to garnish any dish and add crunch to it.

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4. Raw Banana:

We use raw banana to make different types of vegetables in different parts of India. But do you know that the peel can also be used to make delicious koftas? Simply boil the peels with some salt and turmeric powder (Turmeric), then grind it and make a paste (it will be a thick paste). Add chopped onion, ginger, chilli, green coriander, some maida (all-purpose flour) and Semolina (Semolina). Mix all the ingredients well in paste and fry Kofta Out of it. This will give the kofta a very earthy taste.

Bonus Tips:

Apart from these, there are many other vegetables whose peels and ends can be stored to make vegetable broth. Some such vegetables are carrots, turnips, bell peppers, leeks, celery roots, onions, garlic, mushrooms, herbs and more. To make that broth you just need vegetable pieces and water.

From now on, you may actually want to think twice before throwing away vegetable peels.

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