
It’s also an excellent substitute for most recipes that call for chicken stock/broth (but use it as a fall back, as it doesn’t have the same flavour as chicken stock). To make liquid vegetable stock / broth, simply by adding water (per the can directions). Sprinkle onto vegetables or proteins then roasted and To add flavour into soup broths, stews and sauces – such as the soup broth for a homemade Chicken Noodle Soup and creamy sauce for Chicken Pot Pie (pictured below) Think of it as salt – but with flavour! Except unlike salt, it needs to be cooked in some form, as opposed to sprinkled raw onto things like you can with table salt. There are other vegetable stock powder brands but Vegeta is my favourite – for flavour, and also because you get little green “bits” in soup – it just looks right! How do you use it? Whatever the various labels on the cans and jars, the one thing that remains consistent is the distinct blue label!

Nowadays, its widely available one very day grocery stores. It’s known by a few different names: Vegeta is a European vegetable based seasoning that’s used to add flavour into soups, sauces and stews, or to make liquid stock/broth by adding water. So I decided it would make much more sense to write a brief post about it, answering the common questions! What is Vegeta? These days, it’s widely available in everyday grocery stores, but I still regularly receive reader questions about it.

It’s better than other brands of vegetable stock powder with a more rounded, less artificial flavour.

Vegeta is a vegetable stock powder / seasoning is a “secret ingredient” used in some of my signature recipes such as a from-scratch Chicken Noodle Soup.
