Also, check out these beef bone broth and shrimp stock recipes!
This chicken stock recipe will come in handy this fall or winter when you’re in full-blown soup mode, or the next time someone in your household comes down with a cold. It’s packed with vitamins and minerals, and really just tastes like home.
Let’s start from the top. What is chicken stock?
Chicken stock is made from the bones of a chicken that you simmer with vegetables and water for several hours until a rich, flavorful, and nutrient-dense liquid is created. You can use it in soups, sauces, and any dish that calls for stock or broth.
Chicken stock vs broth
You might be wondering, “Is chicken stock the same as chicken broth?” Great question! Stock is usually made from bones, whereas broth is typically made from raw meat. In this instance, you are making chicken stock, since you’ll be using the bones. Chicken stock made from bones delivers a deeper flavor and richer color than the broth made from raw meat. As far as cooking with stock vs. broth goes, you can use them interchangeably in any recipe that calls for either option.
Chicken stock vs bone broth
There are two main differences between chicken stock and bone broth: In its simplest form, you can use chicken bones and water to make chicken stock. And that’s it!
You can also optionally add in vegetables and herbs to give an abundance of flavor to your stock:
Vegetables: Chopped onion, celery carrots, and garlic Herbs: Rosemary branch, sage leaves, sprigs of thyme, and a handful of parsley
Making your own chicken stock is super simple, and the majority of the time needed to make it is stove-top time when you don’t have to babysit it. Here’s what you’ll do: Ta-da! Just like that, you’ve got homemade chicken stock! This chicken stock recipe is the opposite of wasteful. By making your own chicken stock you’ll be using as much of the bird as possible, including leftover bones, plus any scraps of vegetables that you would have otherwise composted a long time ago. It extends the value of both the chicken and vegetables to make something wholesome and delicious. Win-win! That said, many homemade chicken stock recipes out there are wasteful. We’ve seen recipes that call for several whole chickens to be used and then discarded as waste. Unless you have a very large budget and don’t mind throwing away perfectly good food, use this chicken stock recipe instead. Also, instead of tossing onion, celery, garlic, and carrot scraps into the compost, put them into the bone bag. And if that parsley you bought last week is looking pretty sad, put it in the bone bag, too. Once the bag is full, tip it out into a pot and make stock! You can use raw chicken bones or the bones from a cooked chicken. It’s not suggested to use chicken meat to make stock. If you would like to later turn your stock into a soup, you can save any leftover cooked chicken meat and add it to your soup recipe after using the bones to make the stock. But don’t worry about the small bits of meat left on the bone – they’ll add flavor to the stock. No matter what bones you’re using, you will simmer them in water for many hours to extract all the goodness and create a soul-warming chicken stock.
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