Homemade Chicken Bone Broth is packed full of awesomeness for your body! Loaded with minerals, gelatin, vitamins, amino acids and essentially fatty acids, this broth is pure liquid gold for your body. All in just three hours thanks to your Instant Pot! Let’s get cooking!
Making Liquid Gold
Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth made at home is a great way to use up all those kitchen discards you would normally throw in the compost or garbage. When you’re working in your kitchen and chop up aromatics (celery, carrots, garlic, onions etc) keep all the extras you didn’t add to your recipe. Keep the ends, bottoms, skins, peels, everything that didn’t make it in the recipe or you were planning to toss out. Add these pieces to a container you keep in your freezer until you’re ready to make your broth.
While every Chicken Bone Broth recipe is super simple, this one uses the Instant Pot and has one added ingredient that “ups” your gelatinous finished product. After adding all your bones, aromatics and spices, add in 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar. The acid from the vinegar will help release and pull the collagen out of the bones. Allowing your mixture to marinate all together (water too) before putting it under pressure.
When you’re ready to put your broth under pressure, ensure it’s on LOW. Low and slow is the classic for making broth in the slow cooker. Remembering the low part, still rings true here. If you use the high pressure setting, it will actually break down the collagen and you won’t get any gelatinous broth, just liquid. We’re only trying to draw out the collagen, not cook it. Low and just two hours will get the results you’re looking for.
Once you’ve hit that two hour mark, release the pressure immediately.
Now it’s time to strain your broth. Start by taking our the bit parts with a large straining scoop. Then you’re going to place a flour sack towel in your mesh strainer. We really want to make sure we don’t get any of the grainy bits, just the good stuff. Next, you can remove the layer of fat either using a fat strainer or waiting for the fat to separate and scooping it off the top.
Store in air tight containers in the fridge or freezer or you can quickly add to a pressure canning system and can this broth for long term storage. ***Note: your Instant pot is not a pressure canner, they can only water bath can***
If you’re looking to add this homemade chicken bone broth to your Prepper Pantry, you can store it in several different ways. From freeze drying, pressure canning to freezing. If you’re planning to store in the freezer, try using ziploc freezer bags, as the liquid will expand during the freezing process and could potentially break your air tight containers, especially if you use glass.
Have you made Homemade Bone Broths before? How did they turn out? How about making them in the instant pot and still getting that amazing gelatinous finish? You know I love to connect in the comments, let me know how this turned out for you.
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Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth
Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Chicken Carcasses
- 6 Chicken Feet optional
- 1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar (or 1c white wine)
- 2-3 Carrots rough chopped, unpeeled
- 2-3 Celery Stalks rough chopped
- 1 Yellow Onion rough chopped, unpeeled
- 1 tsp Black Peppercorns
- 1 Bay Leaf
- Enough Water To Cover Bones
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients into the Instant Pot
- Add water to the Instant Pot to just cover the bones, no more than 1 inch above the bones and no higher than the pressure cooker mark
- Let rest for one hour
- Press the Soup/Broth button, and set the Instant Pot to "Low Pressure" for 2 hours. (Or Select Manual and choose low pressure and two hours)
- When the bone broth is finished, follow the manufacturer’s instructions for releasing pressure from the Instant Pot or allow the Instant Pot to come down from pressure naturally
- Once the pressure has been completely released, open the Instant Pot and remove all the solids and then strain the broth – first scooping out the large pieces. Then use a flour sack towel laid inside a mesh strainer and pour liquid through into a bowl below to catch the filtered broth
- Store bone broth in jars. Bone broth will stay fresh refrigerated for 2-3 days, and fresh frozen for 2-3 months.
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