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How to: Make Your Own Chicken Stock

Making your own chicken stock is easy! No need to buy store bough stock anymore.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 5 minutes
Servings: 48 oz
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • The bones and leftover meat from a whole chicken
  • ~3 carrots
  • ~4 celery stalks including the tops
  • 1 medium onion
  • 2-3 garlic cloves
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 T parsley leaves
  • 1/4 t celery salt

Method
 

  1. Chop the carrot and the celery stalks into large pieces
  2. Cut the onion into quarters
  3. Crush the garlic cloves
  4. Combine the left over chicken bones and meat in a large stock pot or dutch oven with the above ingredients, add salt, pepper, and parsley leaves
  5. Add water to the pot until just above your ingredients
  6. Bring to a boil
  7. Reduce heat to to a simmer, simmer for 4 hours
  8. Using a slotted spoon, remove the chicken, bones, and pieces of vegetables, pour the remaining liquid through a strainer into heat proof jars.
  9. Allow the jars to cool, then store in the fridge for a week or freeze for months.