Bone broth

Bone broth

So this is so easy that is going to seem ridiculous Im posting a blog post about it.   

I make chicken and beef broth. There are many methods.  This is my method and it's ever changing as well.   

Get a chicken, free range,  pastured, local.  Boil it in a huge stock pot in filtered water for about 3 hours or until it falls off the bone, up to 5 to 7 hours if using a crock pot.    Remove chicken and remove all the meat you can. I used this meat for chicken dishes throughout the week.   Take the carcass and place it back in the pot and add a lot more water.  I use a 10 qt. Stock pot so is a lot of broth.  

 You now add about 2 tablespoons or so of apple cider vinegar. 

Simmer for at least 24 hours, I let it go 36 hours.   After a full day I strain with a fine mesh strainer into a measuring cup and I fill into jars.  Some gets frozen,  some go straight to the fridge for soup that week.  I make bone broth very freqently these days.   Almost weekly when I rotisserie a chicken I use the carcass and all bones for broth as well.  

For beef you go to the butcher and ask for grass fed bones.   Boil with acv for 24 to 36 hours.  Same deal,  strain and store in glass jars. If you freeze them get freezer storage jars. 

While it's cooking feel free to mix it,  to bang the bones on the side to loosen the marrow. 

Broth is gut healing and the best medicine you could drink.  If you get sick,  kids get sick,  hubby gets sick,  make this: bone broth,  3 carrots, 2 stalks of celery,  1 chopped onion, 2 cloves of garlic,  1 tablespoon of salt,  1tsp of parsley,  pepper, rosemary,  thyme and cook separately some gluten free pasta, add to broth some of the chicken and the pasta you have some kick ass homemade chicken gf pasta soup.

The above picture is chicken bone broth in my slow cooker,  while the bone broth was tasty, there was only 4 and a half jars,  so I won't be making it in the show cooker again. The stove top method makes more quanity with same quality.  

People do theirs differently,  there is no right or wrong.  Some add veggies right off the bat,  I prefer to do that later.  I don't even add salt to my bone broth.   I do when I use it to cook.