Another shopping trip plus tips on using leftover food from past trips, I made bone broth!
Another shopping trip plus tips on using leftover food from past trips, I made bone broth!
by Caylennea
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Caylennea
I had gotten a 10 # bag of chicken leg quarters for like $6 or something absurdly cheap (because I shop the loss leaders) and they were cut kind of rough and included some spine and stuff. That is amazing for bone broth so I froze the bag in 3 gallon bags for soups! I had some old carrots and celery that were getting floppy so I made a batch of broth.
First I cooked one bag of leg quarters in the crock pot on low for about 9 hours and saved all of the juices. I seasoned them with salt, pepper, creole seasoning and a bit of Lawrys. I put them in a container in the fridge overnight so it could cool.
This morning I started removing the chicken from the bone and boiled the bones and meat that stuck and skin in my Dutch oven with water, the floppy celery, some oldish carrots a frozen bag of broth veggies that was very heavy on mushrooms ( had old carrots and and celery from the fridge that needed to be used or tossed) one large and oldish onion and a head of oldish garlic.
Bone broth is the perfect thing to do with stuff that’s on its edge for eating. It flavors the broth and you were going to cook the crap out of it till it’s worth amd disintegrating anyway.
I cooked that all day with a tsp of salt, a tsp of msg (you can leave it out of you want but I highly recommend adding it. I know some people think it is bad but my personal research indicates that it is perfectly fine and it really makes things taste amazing!) 2 bay leaves, a tbs of dried parsley. About 2 tsp of some dried Italian seasoning a client of mine makes from her garden every year, and about 1 or 2 tbs of apple cider vinegar.
The vinegar helps to break down the bones so you get more nutrients out of them. I assume that you have cooked the veggies to long for them to have much health benefits At this pot, the health benefits come from the nutrients extracted from the bones.
I love to make bone broth because you can turn things that would have been waste into a wonderful, flavorful, nutrient dense base that can be used in nearly anything. I added the juices from when I cooked the chicken in the crock pot that were completely gelled up with collagen from the bones. That stuff is so good and good for you that it just seems ridiculous to waste it.
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I had gotten a 10 # bag of chicken leg quarters for like $6 or something absurdly cheap (because I shop the loss leaders) and they were cut kind of rough and included some spine and stuff. That is amazing for bone broth so I froze the bag in 3 gallon bags for soups! I had some old carrots and celery that were getting floppy so I made a batch of broth.
First I cooked one bag of leg quarters in the crock pot on low for about 9 hours and saved all of the juices. I seasoned them with salt, pepper, creole seasoning and a bit of Lawrys. I put them in a container in the fridge overnight so it could cool.
This morning I started removing the chicken from the bone and boiled the bones and meat that stuck and skin in my Dutch oven with water, the floppy celery, some oldish carrots a frozen bag of broth veggies that was very heavy on mushrooms ( had old carrots and and celery from the fridge that needed to be used or tossed) one large and oldish onion and a head of oldish garlic.
Bone broth is the perfect thing to do with stuff that’s on its edge for eating. It flavors the broth and you were going to cook the crap out of it till it’s worth amd disintegrating anyway.
I cooked that all day with a tsp of salt, a tsp of msg (you can leave it out of you want but I highly recommend adding it. I know some people think it is bad but my personal research indicates that it is perfectly fine and it really makes things taste amazing!) 2 bay leaves, a tbs of dried parsley. About 2 tsp of some dried Italian seasoning a client of mine makes from her garden every year, and about 1 or 2 tbs of apple cider vinegar.
The vinegar helps to break down the bones so you get more nutrients out of them. I assume that you have cooked the veggies to long for them to have much health benefits At this pot, the health benefits come from the nutrients extracted from the bones.
I love to make bone broth because you can turn things that would have been waste into a wonderful, flavorful, nutrient dense base that can be used in nearly anything. I added the juices from when I cooked the chicken in the crock pot that were completely gelled up with collagen from the bones. That stuff is so good and good for you that it just seems ridiculous to waste it.