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Yummy, Healthy Broths

{ 08:06, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 } { 0 comments } { Link }

In my quest for health and nutrition I have come across Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. I'm sure many of you are familiar with her book, but if not you can go here and check it out. In this book she declares the health properties of making bone broths. I'm still unclear on the difference between broths and stock, but I call a bone broth a stock.

Anyways... I have been making this delicious and healthy addition to our diet for a while now. Generally I make it with a chicken carcass or chicken bones from a meal we have. I throw the chicken bones, onions, celery, peppercorns and salt in a pot and cover it with cold filtered water. Then you bring it up to a boil and skim off the scum which I believe are caused by some proteins that we don't want in our stock. Then you cover it and turn it down to a low simmer and let it go for a good 8 hours at least. I probably should do it for longer, but have only been doing it this long. Here is what it looks like when it is done, strained and in my big plastic bowl (I need to get some big glass or stainless steel bowls).

As you can see this is a rich stock made from the carcass of a roasted chicken, turning the stock a darker color. So... what do you do with stock?
*Cook grains in it
*Drink it as a snack (make sure to salt it otherwise it tastes a bit like dirty dishwater)
*Boil it down and store it in the freezer for future use.
*Use it in sauces

Or better yet... make a delicious healthy chicken soup out of it.

I make these at least once every 2 weeks. Usually leftover chicken, carrots, peas, onions, leafy greens or whatever veggies I have on hand goes in. This particular one has carrots, peas, leeks, green onions and chicken. Yummy.

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