Healing Chicken Bone Broth Recipe

Using the whole chicken is just an efficient way of cooking. However, not many people want to eat chicken feet, and bones aren’t exactly edible. Luckily, we can use these things to make a healing chicken bone broth recipe and enjoy health benefits in the process.

This healing chicken bone broth recipe is a great way to get natural nutrients that can help with gut health as well as sleep and even weight loss. Chicken bones aren’t the only animal bones you can use to make a bone broth.

However, it is more common for home cooks to come across chicken bones in weekly cooking. Those bones can come from wings, drumsticks, thighs, or any chicken parts.

Cooking Tips

Save those bones throuhout the week! Most people throw out the bones when they have finished eating; there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s fair to say it is a bit wasteful, but not bad. We can’t eat the bones exactly, but there is something inside the bones we can eat: bone marrow.

Bone marrow is fatty tissue inside the bone. This marrow is filled with flavor and nutrition. In fact, pretty much every chicken soup recipe uses bone broth or chicken broth as the base for that very reason.

This allows us to be more efficient with the food we cook and eat at home. Now, we don’t have to throw away those bones when we finish eating. Instead, we can use them to make our own chicken bone broth at home.

Homemade chicken bone broth is very easy to make and this recipe can be made with an instant pot or crock pot so it’s easy to adapt to your preference.

The crock pot is similar in that we don’t have to do much to get great results. We can go out and buy our rotisserie chickens, eat the meat, and then toss the bones in an Instant Pot with some vegetable scraps to make our own broth.

Store the homemade bone broth for later use as a delicious soup or as an ingredient in pasta or rice dishes. The homemade chicken broth will not only save us some money, but it will also help our immune system, gut health, and so much more. 

Why You’ll Enjoy Our Healing Chicken Bone Broth Recipe

Our chicken bone broth is a healing recipe that offers us plenty of nutrients we normally would miss out on tossing the bones away. Making our own bone broth is an excellent way of getting all of the health benefits from the broth without any of the added stuff found in broth from grocery stores.

Not to mention, we also get to enjoy the chicken meat first. The question is, what are the benefits of chicken bone broth? Bone broth provides us with better digestion.

The nutrients calm the immune system in the GI tract, which may reduce food sensitivities. Bone broth also provides us with a natural source of collagen. We also increase our bone and joint health and strength thanks to the amino acids, glucosamine, proline, glycine, and arginine in bone broth.

There are plenty of health benefits we can get from bone broth; all we have to do is use it more often.

What is Bone Broth Best Used For?

The healing chicken bone broth recipe can be used in many different ways. Each way will provide us with the nutrients from the bone broth. The most obvious use for bone broth is as the perfect base for soups.

We can use a good bone broth as a chicken noodle soup base or even as an added ingredient to any soup that may call for water in the directions. Instead of using water, use bone broth.

It is so much easier to boil pasta noodles when you make your own bone broth for free after a roasted chicken meal. An excellent use for bone broth is in making rice. The rice comes out so flavorful and delicious.

In fact, most Mexican rice recipes use chicken stock or bone broth to cook the rice instead of water. Essentially, the best use for bone broth is in any savory recipe that uses water.

Homemade Chicken Bone Broth Ingredients

• Water: Homemade broth is going to start with water. The cooking process will transform the water into a healthy chicken bone broth recipe filled with all of the essential nutrients.
• Chicken Bones: We can use any combination of chicken bones from meals we’ve had this week or the meal we had last night. The best place to start is with bones that you picked clean during a delicious meal. Of course, you could also go to your local butcher and pay for some bones specifically for this delicious broth.

• Celery: Celery adds a fresh subtle taste to any soup, especially this bone broth.
• Onions: Many of us love the flavor that onions add to a dish. If you have an onion sensitivity, don’t worry! You can omit them from this recipe and it will still be filled with flavor.
• Garlic: The benefits of garlic are too long to list – some of my favorites are it boosts your immune system and regulates blood sugar.
• Carrots: Carrots are a staple for any soup or broth!
• Mushrooms: Mushrooms are loaded with vitamin D and a great way to add in some bone health nutritional support.
• Ginger: I am honestly not a big fan of the taste of ginger but a little goes a long way for health benefits. I personally use less than called for in this recipe.
• Apple Cider Vinegar: We will add 3 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar to this recipe.
• Salt: You can add salt to this recipe to taste.
• Peppercorns: Peppercorns add the right amount of spice!
• Bay Leaf: A bay leaf adds a lot of flavor and helps all of these ingredients come together to make the best chicken stock recipe.

Now, we just need to decide whether we want to make a slow cooker recipe or an Instant Pot recipe.

How to Make Crock Pot Chicken Bone Broth – Step by Step Instructions

1. Place the bones you will use on a cooking sheet and roast in the oven at 350 for about 15 minutes. This will help bring out the flavor as they cook in the Crock Pot.
2. While the bones are roasting, clean all vegetables. Peel and cut the onion and ginger. I prefer to leave the greens on the celery stalks.
3. After 15 minutes, use a pair of tongs to transfer the bones to the Crock Pot.
4. Layer all the vegetables, mushrooms, bay leaf, and peppercorns on top.
5. Add the apple cider vinegar.
6. Pour 8-10 cups of water over the top. Just enough to cover the bones and vegetables but not to the top of the Crock Pot.
7. Add sea salt to taste.
8. Cover and cook on low for at least 10 hours and up to 20 hours.
9. After cooking, let the broth cool for an hour.
10. Once cooled off, set a large pot in the sink and using a mesh strainer, slowly ladle or pour the contents of the bone broth through the strainer, into the pot. The bone broth will filter through the strainer.

How to Make Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth

1. Follow all of the directions above to prepare the crock pot bone broth recipe.
2. Be sure your Instant Pot is on “Sealed”.
3. Set your Instant Pot on the Soup/Stew setting for 30 minutes.
4. Natural Release and let your Instant Pot bone broth recipe sit for 10-15 minutes.

How to Store this Bone Broth Recipe

Finally, from the pot, you can use your bone broth immediately or save portions for future use. Pasta, rice, mashed potatoes, stews, and chili con carne can all benefit from chicken bone broth over water.

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