Chicken Stock Plus A Stock Of Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Place the chicken in a large pot over high heat. Add water to cover and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 1 hour.
• Remove chicken from pot. Leave water in pot. Cool chicken. Remove skin and bones from meat. Return bones and skin to pot. Add onions, carrots, celery, bay leaf, ginger, and salt. Continue simmering for 3 to 4 hours.
• Strain and cool the stock, uncovered.
• Use the meat for soups, salads, sandwiches, or other dishes where cooked chicken is needed. After stock has been defatted, use or freeze immediately. I freeze the stock in one-cup amounts and use instead of water for cooking rice or vegetables or making gravy.

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, combine the onions, carrots, and celery. Toss in the parsley, thyme, and bay leaf and add the chicken parts or bones. Add enough cold water to cover the chicken by 3 inches. Bring to a boil over medium heat, lower the heat immediately so the stock simmers very gently. Skim the surface of any foam, scum, or fat, with a ladle, as often as necessary. Simmer, uncovered for 4 hours.
• Strain into a large bowl or storage containers. Cool the liquid to room temperature before refrigerating. (The fastest way to cool containers of stock is in an ice water bath in the sink.) Refrigerate for 2 or 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. Remove any solidified fat that rises to the surface before using.

Steps:

• Open bag of chicken, empty contents into large stock pot.
• Wrap herbs in cheese cloth, tie with cotton string.
• Add all other ingredients.
• Cover with water by 2 inches.
• cover pot, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to simmer.
• Simmer for 4 hours.
• Turn off heat.
• Use tongs to remove chicken one piece at a time.
• Remove skin and fat, discard.
• Remove meat, set aside, discard bones.
• Discard Bouquet Garni when you find it.
• When you've picked out all you can with the tongs, pour remaining contents through a colander.
• Save the good stuff, discard the rest.
• Shred chicken and place 2 cups at a time in sandwich size zip lock bags, freeze.
• scour the pot clean and return the stock.
• Let cool then chill over night.
• Next morning remove congealed fat with a spatula.
• Reduce or not as you see fit.
• Place 2 cups at a time in sandwich sized zip lock bags, freeze.
• Supposed to keep for 3 months, I've never kept any that long.

Steps:

• To make this stock in an Instant Pot: Add the chicken carcass to a 3- or 6-quart Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker. Chop the onion into eighths, and slice the garlic head in half crosswise to expose the cloves; dump the alliums into the pot over the chicken. Crush the bay leaves and add, along with the salt, black peppercorns, and turmeric. Add enough cold water to reach the max line in the 3-quart or to cover the bones in the 6-quart (5 to 6 cups). Gently stir and cover with the lid. Pressure-cook on high for 1 hour and let the pressure release naturally.
• To make this stock on the stove: Follow Step 1, but place all of the ingredients, including the water, into a large heavy-bottomed pot, such as a Dutch oven or stock pot, and gently stir. Bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to maintain a gentle simmer. Cover and cook until the stock is deeply golden, the chicken bones are falling apart at the joints when you try to pick them up and the vegetables have turned to mush, about 3 hours.
• Strain the contents of the pot through a colander set over a large bowl; press the bones to get out all of the liquid. Taste for seasoning, adjusting with salt as desired. Ladle the stock into large mugs for sipping, or use as an ingredient in your cooking. Alternatively, you can let the strained stock cool slightly before transferring into quart containers and storing in the refrigerator.
• This chicken stock will keep in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 4 months. Heat individual portions in coffee mugs to drink in the morning for breakfast, or use as a base for soups, stews and porridges throughout the week.

Steps:

• On the stove top, combine chicken, vegetables and water in a dutch oven or other large pot with a lid then bring to a boil over medium-high heat; skim off foam then reduce to a simmer at medium-low.
• Add the remaining ingredients and cover (if you put the seasonings in at the beginning you will lose some of them when skimming the foam-- for this reason corned beef seasoning packets are also best added after skimming the foam).
• Simmer until the chicken is cooked through-- about 45 minutes-- checking occasionally, if a lot of the water has boiled off, add more.
• When done remove the chicken and vegetables with a slotted spoon and strain the liquid to reserve as stock for soup, stew, or whatever you want; you must use it within four or five days if refrigerated or much longer if frozen.
• For dumplings: put the stock back on the stove at a simmer, taste the broth and add salt/pepper as necessary; if it's not rich enough, put the heat on high and boil it down to reduce until to your liking. For the batter, cream the butter in a bowl with a fork, then beat in the eggs and stir in the rest of the ingredients, blending well. The consistency should be such that it allows you to drop gobs of it into the pot; if it's not soft enough, slowly mix in broth to desired consistency. Drop the batter into the simmering broth by the teaspoonful (do this in whole "chunks", don't drizzle) and cook for about 10 minutes, until dumplings are set and cooked through. Serve immediately in the broth.