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Homemade Chicken Broth Recipe
This homemade chicken broth is so easy and tasty, you'll be making your own all the time. Use it for any soup or recipe that calls for it!
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
4 hrs
Total Time
4 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 19 cups
Calories: 100 kcal
Course:
Soup
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 2 (5-pound) young roasting chickens (whole)
- 6 quarts cold water
- 3 large yellow onions unpeeled and quartered
- 1 head garlic unpeeled and halved, optional
- 6 carrots washed, unpeeled and quartered
- 4 ribs celery with leaves washed and halved
- 2 tablespoons herbes de provence
- 4 dried bay leaves
- 12 whole cloves
- 2 teaspoons whole black peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a 16-20 quart stockpot, and cover with 6 quarts of water.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer uncovered for 2½ hours.
- Carefully transfer the chickens to two large bowls. Remove the chicken meat from the bones and set aside.
- After removing the meat from the bones, place the bones and the excess broth (from the bones) back into the stockpot. Season to taste – the broth should taste lightly salted.
- Continue cooking the chicken broth another 1½ hours.
- While the broth reduces, cut or shred the chicken meat and save for other meals. (It freezes beautifully.)
- After the broth is finished cooking, strain it through a colander, and discard the remaining solids.
- Refrigerate the broth overnight, then remove the surface fat the next day.
- The broth will be slightly gelatinous, but it will liquefy and add a rich, lovely flavor when heated.
- Keep the broth refrigerated and use within 3 days, or pour into freezer containers (or zip-top bags) and freeze up to 3 months.
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Notes
- Yield: 19 cups chicken broth + 4 cups cooked chicken.
- Storage: Refrigerate chicken broth for 3 days. Freeze for up to 3 months.
- Refrigerate chicken broth for 3 days. Freeze for up to 3 months.
- Nutritional information is for the broth only, not the cooked chicken.
Nutrition Information
Serving
1cup
Calories
100kcal
(5%)
Carbohydrates
6g
(2%)
Protein
1g
(2%)
Fat
9g
(14%)
Saturated Fat
3g
(15%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
2g
Monounsaturated Fat
4g
Trans Fat
0.001g
Cholesterol
7mg
(2%)
Sodium
457mg
(19%)
Potassium
138mg
(4%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
2g
(4%)
Vitamin A
3288IU
(66%)
Vitamin C
4mg
(4%)
Calcium
40mg
(4%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 19cups
Amount Per Serving
Calories 100
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1cup | |
| Calories | 100kcal | 5% |
| Carbohydrates | 6g | 2% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 9g | 14% |
| Saturated Fat | 3g | 15% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 2g | 12% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 4g | 20% |
| Trans Fat | 0.001g | 0% |
| Cholesterol | 7mg | 2% |
| Sodium | 457mg | 19% |
| Potassium | 138mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 2g | 4% |
| Vitamin A | 3288IU | 66% |
| Vitamin C | 4mg | 4% |
| Calcium | 40mg | 4% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.