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You may already have heard of the benefits of homemade bone broth which can be used in recipes as stock or for drinking. It is especially good when doing long fasts to keep up electrolytes or when you’re feeling sick and need some light nourishment.
I would always save up all the bones from chicken dishes to make it but this recipe gives you delicious bone broth using a whole chicken, which you can then strip and use in different recipes. I love making bone broth this way and it is how I always do it now!
Try using the chicken meat in recipes like Fathead Pizza, Chicken Caesar Salad and Fathead Chicken, Spinach and Feta Gozleme!
Whole Slow Cooker Chicken and Bone Broth
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp whole black peppercorns
- 1 1/2 tbsp rock salt
- 1 large carrot, roughly chopped
- 2 celery sticks, roughly chopped
- 1 leek or onion, roughly chopped
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Wash chicken very well with cold running water. Place chicken in cooker and fill with cold water until chicken is just covered. Add apple cider vinegar and let sit for at least 20 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cover firmly with the lid. Set to low and cook for 24 hours on slow cook or pressure cook 2 hours.
- Once done skim large vegetables off the top. Remove chicken very carefully as it will fall apart, bones included! Strip the meat off the chicken carefully and discard the bones. They should easily crush between your fingers. Divide chicken into two portions in large zip lock bags and fridge or freeze for future recipes.
- Take out as many vegetables and big bits as you can with a slotted spoon or similar. Strain the broth through a sieve or if you want to make sure there are no ‘bits’ at all, strain through cheese cloth into a large bowl or similar. Chill either in fridge or freezer.
- The fat will settle and set on top and if you’ve done well your broth will take on the consistency of jelly. Skim the fat off the top. Divide the broth into containers (I divide into 1 cup portions) and freeze for use in future recipes or for drinking.
Notes
Nutritional Info: For this nutritional info will vary based on the size of your chicken, the amount of water added etc. But for bone broth the carb count should be close to zero. For the chicken itself you can use regular nutritional info for the chicken meat.
mistimaan says
Nice recipe