Posted on 02/25/2022 4:55:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
I eat a lot of homemade chicken soup and I almost never get sick. Not even on Friday nights.
Bone broth is awesome. Collagen is key. It’s the body’s glue.
Bkmk
I’m a big fan. For whatever reason, here in MA, I’ve hard trouble finding material. I’m in the middle of nowhere. It’s a bit of a trip, by Whole Foods has chicken backs (frozen) and I know of an Asian market that carries knuckle bones, chicken feet, and split pig’s feet. Once in a whole I stock up on parts and then try to make a batch of broth once a week.
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Got a recipe, made some from chicken bones. It was bleh, a waste of electricity. I do, however, buy organic beef or chicken bone broth in cartons. Kroger has good one with low-sodium, and various other places have other brands.
Then just toss chicken legs and thighs or stew beef into the pot with tons of veggies, and simmer slowly for a delish meal. Little red potatoes, carrots, celery are the usual and I also like parsnips, turnips and sometimes rutabaga. a clove of garlic squeezed through garlic press. Chopped onions if you like them.
Really whatever you like. There’s no wrong way to make stew, nor to make salad for that matter.
Other great thing about it is making enough for three or four days and freezing what you don’t eat.
Do you have to soak or clean the chicken feet before you start cooking them down? I’ve been wanting to do this.
“Sing a song, don’t be long
Thrill me to the marrow”
Collagen is also great for the skin and hair. I buy “Ancient Nutrition” Multi-Collagen Protein and toss it in water with some raspberry electrolytes. Drink it after breakfast with my vitamins.
Organic chicken. Mirapoix - onion, celery, carrots, garlic- cover with cold water. 20 hours in slow cooker. All the collagen comes out. Now you have broth and meat. That’s where I start.
I can’t cook but I hang around people who can and do.
I’ve been served bone broth on occasion. Every time, needs a little something but I have no idea what. Or maybe something less of something!
I learned about bone broth years ago on Free Republic from Greeneyes. She would have loved this article.
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My wife boils up this wretched stuff; the smell just about kills me. But she swears by it.
When we want some old-fashioned ingredients we have to go to one of the ethnic markets (Chinese, Hispanic, Indian, Italian etc.). Things like chicken feet, a “soup chicken” (i.e., an old chicken), pork necks, beef knuckles, or some other unusual ingredient or spice.
I put all the bones (and feet) in a big pot of cold water, heat that to boiling, boil it all for 5 minutes and then dump it out into a colander and rinse with cold water. That’s a blanche. That’s basically my first step — it’s supposed to remove some impurities and make skimming the stock less of a chore during the rest of the process.
It’s not a necessary step and I guess a lot of people don’t do it. Technically, the feet should be clean when you buy them, but, I mean: they are feet. So I feel better if I clean them with a quick boil, and the blanche does that as well as help get some junk off the other bones.
Also, for a white stock, you’d start over with the bones in water and start the long simmer — but for a brown stock you’d want to roast the bones at 400 for maybe 45 minutes before beginning that long simmering process. My wife is a little sensitive and she doesn’t like the smell of roasting bones in the oven. But if I blanche the bones first, the oven roast produces a much reduced smell. Seems like a Win-Win.
For people with gout, bone broth is close to poison.
Can easily trigger an attack. Too bad for them....it tastes great.
Many thanks, great information! One last question: after the 5 minute blanch boil do you roast the feet too? Do you mix your chicken & beef together or do only beef or only chicken?
Lots of people mix the bones. I don’t, because my nature is very “Either This or That”. I want chicken broth or I want beef broth. I don’t mix — but that’s really just me.
Some books will say not to roast the feet, but I do. Doesn’t seem to cause any harm.
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