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Chicken broth is such an important ingredient in so many dishes. A good broth is the base of a delicious and healing chicken noodle soup. I have been making chicken broth and chicken noodle soup for a long time, and before flu season hits, I like to stock my freezer with it. Homemade broth takes time and effort, but it surpasses store bought.
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Ingredients for Chicken Broth
1 whole chicken skinned and cut
1 medium size onion, peeled and cut into chunks
1 garlic pod, peeled
1 tbsp grated ginger root
2 tsp salt or to taste
½-1 tsp pepper or peppercorns
6 cups Water
Instructions
Place the skinned and cut up chicken in the instant pot or pressure cooker
Add all the other ingredients to the pot
Close the instant pot and set it for 12 minutes on high pressure. Make sure the vent is closed.
Let the pressure release naturally.
You can pull out the metal pot to help it cool faster.
Pour the broth into an oil separating jug like the Oxo fat separator. Make sure to have the rubber plug inserted into the spout before you pour the broth. The chicken I cooked was a young one and didn’t have much fat.
Pour the broth into a dish for your fridge or freezer, or use it immediately.
After removing the cooked meat, I often boil the bones once again with some more salt and pepper for about 30 minutes on high pressure. Sometimes, I soak the cooked bones in the water along with 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar for about 30 minutes and pressure cook for 45 minutes to an hour, in order to extract more good stuff from the bones.
Handy Tips
You can add ½ tsp thyme and/or ½ tsp crushed rosemary for added flavor.
Freeze the broth for later. I generally like to have a couple of large containers of it in my freezer.
You can use this broth to make my Chicken Tortilla Soup.
Use the cooked chicken for a different dish like chicken salad.
You can use this broth and cooked chicken to make Chicken Tetrazini or Chicken Noodle Soup.
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Homemade broth is the best Thank you for sharing your recipe with #omhgww.
Nothing like a good homemade stock! It looks really nice! Thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂 x #KCACOLS
Thanks this looks like it should be easy, I haven’t made broth for a long time so will have to try it #KCACOLS
We’re vegetarians, so this particular recipe is not for me, BUT I do appreciate food being cooked from scratch, in traditional ways and without unnecessary additives. So good on you for making the effort to make your own stock x #KCACOLS
Thanks for your encouragement Malin. It’s good to eat whole foods.
This looks great, my mum makes a similar one but with celery and carrot instead of the garlic and ginger. Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next time.
Thanks Laura. My recipe isn’t totally ‘traditional’, as I developed it myself over the years.
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