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Perfect homemade chicken stock is clear, transparent, light-toned, and has a fresh chicken aroma. It tastes and smells good.
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There are a few small steps for the best way to make perfect healthy chicken stock. DIY chicken is healthier for it has low sodium, no monosodium glutamate, and no harmful preservatives.
Chicken stock has more of chicken flavor while chicken broth refers to more flavorsome chicken stock with herbs and other flavors and chicken broth can also be eaten as a soup by itself. You can also check my sour cucumber soup with orange juice and toasted almond soup with cream.
You can always make chicken stock using chicken carcass/bones. Making chicken stock with chicken carcasses/bones is easy and quick too as you don't have to remove meat from the chicken so one step less. I have also included instructions if using fleshy chicken for stock.
How to make it?
In a large bowl take chicken and fill the bowl fully with water. Add vinegar and soak chicken for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, wash the chicken thoroughly, removing fat layers and blood veins.
Put onion, garlic, ginger, water, and salt in a stainless steel vessel and bring it to a boil.
Add washed chicken to the vessel. Cover and cook your stock on low flame for 2 hours.
Strain the soup with the strainer.
Your chicken stock is ready.
Tips
- Always use stainless steel pot for soup as some metals will give a darker tone to the soup.
- Soaking in the vinegar helps wash as well as remove the blood of the chicken which can also give a dark color to the stock.
- Always thaw your chicken in the fridge overnight for making chicken stock. This stops the slow release of blood while cooking which happens due to quick thawing in a hot water bath.
- This is a basic chicken stock that can be used in any recipe without altering the original flavors of the recipe.
Storage:
- Add the chicken stock to ice trays and freeze. Once fully frozen put frozen cubes in zip-lock plastic bags. Use as required.
- You can also divide the stock into two parts and store it in two zip-lock plastic bags. This method is good if storing stock to make soup.
- The stock stays good in the fridge for 3 days. Discard the stock if tastes sour or smells bad.
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📖 Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken bones or carcass
- 8 cups water
- ½ tbs garlic, roughly chopped
- ½ tbs ginger, roughly chopped
- ½ small onion, sliced
- 6-8 pepper corn
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tbs Vinegar
Other variations
- herb of your choice, like parsely, cilantro, optional
- Vegetables of your choice, carrot, peas, bottle gourd, tomato, potato, optional
Instructions
- If chicken is frozen thaw overnight in fridge.See notes 3Soak chicken or chicken bones or carcass in salt and vinegar water for at least 20 minutes.
- After soaking chicken, discard the water and wash the chicken removing all fat layers and veins.
- Now in a stainless steel skillet add onion, garlic, ginger, salt,pepper, herbs, vegetables and water.
- Bring it to boil. Now add chicken. Cover it and cook on a low flame for 2 hours or until your stock has reduced to 4 cups.If using fleshy chicken for making stock, after 45 minutes of cooking when chicken meat is soft, remove chicken from the stock.
- Let the chicken cool and remove meat from the chicken.Transfer the bones of chicken back to stock and resume cooking.Alternately you can also cook in pressure cooker to speed up the process.When chicken stock is ready strain the stock, discarding all solid matters. Check notes or storage.
Notes
Tips
- Always use stainless steel pot for soup as some metals will give a darker tone to the soup.
- Soaking in the vinegar helps wash as well as remove the blood of the chicken which can also give a dark color to the stock.
- Always thaw your chicken in the fridge overnight for making chicken stock. This stops the slow release of blood while cooking which happens due to quick thawing in a hot water bath.
- This is a basic chicken stock that can be used in any recipe without altering the original flavors of the recipe.
Storage:
- Add the chicken stock to ice trays and freeze. Once fully frozen put frozen cubes in zip-lock plastic bags. Use as required.
- You can also divide the stock into two parts and store it in two zip-lock plastic bags. This method is good if storing stock to make soup.
- The stock stays good in the fridge for 3 days. Discard the stock if tastes sour or smells bad.
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