Chicken and Broth: the How To
Make your own chicken broth by cooking your own meet and saving the broth. It's worth ever bit of effort, which is really minimal.
Ingredients
- Chicken - bone in preferred with fat pieces attached; whatever amount you want
- Water - enough to cover if doing it on stove top. Follow directions for pressure canner pressure cooker, and Instant pot
- Salt and Pepper - several Tablespoons as desired
- Onion - optional; cut up and diced
Instructions
- If using a kettle on top of the stove, place chicken into container and cover with water
- Add onion and seasonings as desired
- Cook until meat falls off the bones
- Drain, saving all liquid
- When cool to handle, remove meat from the bones
- Continue to cool the meat
- Return bones and fat (optional) to kettle with more water
- Cook until all bones are completely stripped of meat
- Strain again and let cool
- Once cool, place chicken and broth in separate containers
- Freeze or can the broth
- Freeze chicken in freezer bags