The Amazing Health Benefits of Bone Broth and an Easy Recipe
Try this recipe for The Amazing Health Benefits of Bone Broth and the Easy Peasy Bone Broth, or contribute your own.
Try this recipe for The Amazing Health Benefits of Bone Broth and the Easy Peasy Bone Broth, or contribute your own.
- Carbohydrate 92.6388811097309 g
- Cholesterol 0 mg
- Fat 0.813403047619048 g
- Fiber 8.58867672421177 g
- Protein 5.08492903519669 g
- Saturated Fat 0.143111688612836 g
- Serving Size 1 1 recipe (1233g)
- Sodium 98.3987685300207 mg
- Sugar 84.0502043855191 g
- Trans Fat 0.398921210766045 g
- Calories 361 calories
Step-by-step
- Fill the stock pot with the bones, feet, skin, fat...everything
- Add the chopped vegetables, herbs and sea salt
- Add your acv
- Add cold filtered water. For chickens, the correct proportion is 3-4 lbs of bones per 4 quarts of filtered water. For beef stock, the correct proportion is 7 lbs of bones per 4 quarts of water or more to cover.
- Let sit for 20 minutes. This helps make the nutrients more available.
- Turn the stock pot on high and bring to a vigorous boil, then let it simmer.
- Keep an eye on it, you want a very low simmer for the duration of the time. A slow roll or bubble is what you want to have
- Chicken or Turkey broth: 8-24 hours total, including time to reach a boil
- Beef broth- 12-48 hours total, including time to reach a boil
- Fish broth - 8 hours hours total, including time to reach a boil
- Skim off frothy residue floating on top as it simmers and throw out
- Once the broth has simmered its total time, strain the bone broth. You can also use a reusable coffee filter for a super fine strainer too
- Dump the entire contents into the strainer (be sure to wear oven mitts)
- Pick up colander and shake remaining broth
- Pull off any remaining meat, I can usually pick off ~1 cup of meat
- Repeat for second (and third batch). Or place the bones back into the plastic freezer bag and put into freezer until you are ready to make more.
- Place remaining bones back into crock pot add water if you are making more now. If bones fill up crock pot a quarter to half way add 2 more tsp acv and repeat this process. The second and third batch will not be as strong as the first, however, it still contains lots of high nutrient properties. Sometimes I make one batch, sometimes 2 or 3 just depends on time.
- Pour the well strained broth in to wide mouth freezable mason jars.
Standard vegetable stock relies on rapid water extraction of surface starches and aromatic compounds over a brief forty-minute period, whereas bone broth requires an extended thermal breakdown of collagen, cartilage, and connective tissue. Acidic additions like apple cider vinegar are necessary to lower the pH of the cooking liquid, which assists in breaking down tough connective tissues and drawing minerals out of the calcium matrix. Letting the raw bones and vinegar sit in cold water for twenty minutes before applying heat initiates this chemical softening process. Maintaining a very low, barely perceptible simmer prevents the emulsion of fats and impurities that cause cloudiness and bitter flavors. Skimming the frothy albumin residue during the initial stages ensures a clear final liquid. Gelatin yield serves as the primary visual indicator of doneness; a properly simmered batch will set into a firm, solid gel once chilled in the refrigerator due to the hydrolyzed collagen content. Straining the hot liquid through a fine-mesh sieve or a reusable coffee filter removes bone fragments and residual particulates. Freezing the finished liquid in wide-mouth glass jars allows for long-term storage, though expansion space must be left at the top to prevent cracking. Reusing the extracted bones for a second or third batch remains viable, provided additional vinegar is added to supplement depleted acid levels. While this preparation contains animal bones, those managing dietary restrictions should note that the fundamental extraction technique adapts readily to vegetarian frameworks by substituting mineral-dense root vegetables and mineral-rich seaweeds to build body.
