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📋 Homemade chicken stock
I make chicken stock in a pressure cooker. If you don't have one, boil the chicken for 2 hours. I like to freeze it into bags of various sizes, so I can defrost as big or small an amount as required.
Course Soups & Stews
Cuisine French
Keyword broth, chicken, stock
Prep Time 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes minutes
Resting time 1 hour hour
Total Time 1 hour hour 35 minutes minutes
Servings 3 liters
Calories 24 kcal
1 Bouquet Garni: leek leaf wrapped around rosemary, bay leaf and thyme 1 large carrot 1 onion 1 stalk of celery 5 peppercorns 1 tablespoon sea coarser salt 1 hole free range chicken fresh water
Put all the cleaned vegetables
1 large carrot, 1 onion, 1 stalk of celery
Add the pepper corns and salt
5 peppercorns, 1 tablespoon sea coarser salt
Make a Bouquet Grani wrapping the4 herbs around a leek leave and add it to the pan
1 Bouquet Garni:
Place the chicken in the pan
1 hole free range chicken
Cover with water up to ⅔ of the height of the pan
fresh water
Close the pressure cooker, make sure it is sealed.
Put on the heat so the pressure builds up with the heat. The pressure valve will raise to the second red line
Once the pressure is built, let it cook for 30 minutes at medium heat. Make sure the valve stays up
After 30 minutes, gradually release the pressure from the pan. The valve will start to go down
Once the pressure is completely released and the valve is down, open the pan
Remove the chicken from the stock
Let the stock cool down completely
Once cold, remove the fat by filtering it through a paper towel or a percolator coffee filter.
Use it or freeze it into various size containers, so it can be defrosted as big or small an amount as required.
use an "old" free-range chicken
never fill the pressure cooker more than ⅔ of its height
if you don't have a pressure cooker, boil it for 2 hours
wait for it to cool down before filtering it as the fat becomes more solid and it is easier to filter
Calories: 24 kcal | Carbohydrates: 6 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 1 g | Saturated Fat: 1 g | Sodium: 2342 mg | Potassium: 119 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 3 g | Vitamin A: 3397 IU | Vitamin C: 4 mg | Calcium: 15 mg | Iron: 1 mg