Do you also regularly have leftover fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator? Fortunately, you don’t have to throw them away right away. You can often do more with it than you think. You can put a delicious meal on the table with leftovers. We will give you some tips so that you can get started right away.
This is how you cook with leftovers
1. Use stock
Stock-based soups and stews remain delicious. Use leek, celery, carrot or onion and make a stock from it. You can even use asparagus peels. So definitely don’t throw it away. A stock is a delicious base for a homemade asparagus soup.
2. Soup
To stay with the theme of soup for a moment. Don’t throw away that broccoli or cauliflower stalk right away. Make delicious soup. Do you see limp spinach in the refrigerator? Throw in the soup!
3. Let’s stew!
Do you still have half a zucchini or pepper left? Put it in the oven and stew! You can make a delicious stew with most leftovers.
4. Still much egg?
Do you have any egg white or yolk left? Don’t throw these away. For example, make a delicious pavlova from leftover egg whites or make a lemon curd with a few yolks. Delicious!
5. Leftover pasta?
Do you have too much pasta left? Make another delicious meal from the remaining pasta.
6. Cooking with leftover wine
Do you have any wine left and you don’t feel like drinking it? No worries, use it for a risotto. This way you add a fresh acidity to the dish. It makes the risotto very tasty. So it doesn’t matter if you have some wine left over from that one party next time.
7. Ice cubes
How convenient is it to freeze leftover wine or stock in an ice cube tray. You then have the perfect ice cubes to keep the wine fresh or to add flavor to your stew.
9. Baking with fruit
There are always a few overripe pieces of fruit left in the fruit bowl. You can put this to good use. How about brown bananas for delicious banana bread? Or a few apples for the tarte tatin. You can do all kinds of things with it.
10. Smoothies
Don’t feel like baking or cooking? Then you can always process your fruit and vegetables in a smoothie. Just blend! This is also very healthy and it is a very easy way to use leftovers.
