Healing Chicken Bone Broth
This simple healing chicken bone broth recipe is packed with gut-healing nutrients and is a great base for soups and sauces.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken carcasses left over from roasted or slow cooked pasture raised chicken and other left-over chicken bones
- 5 chicken backs pasture raised
- 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- filtered water to cover the bones
- 4 chicken feet pasture raised (optional)
Instructions
- Place bones in the slow cooker. Try to almost fill it with bones otherwise it won't be gelatinous. Although not a requirement, adding chicken feet makes for a great broth.
- Cover the bones with filtered water.
- Add apple cider vinegar.
- Let the broth simmer for 24 hours on low.
- Discard the larger bones and pour broth through a strainer into a large bowl.
- Cool to room temperature.
- Fill it into mason jars and either store in the fridge for 4-5 days or freeze. See tips below for freezing.
Notes
Tips to get bones:
Collect them whenever you make chicken wings, legs, whole chicken, etc and freeze them until you have enough to make broth. Talk to your butcher or farmer. They often have bags of bones specifically for broth. Also, ask for chicken feet.
Tips for successful freezing:
When freezing liquid in glass jars you want to leave a couple of inches headspace to make sure the glass doesn't break (see picture), especially if you are not using wide mouth jars. Also, let the jars with the broth cool down to room temperature first and then refrigerate them for a few hours or overnight before freezing them.