Chicken Stock
Homemade stock means long hours over the stove, tons of ingredients and a big mess, right? 100% wrong. First, up our stock is made of items that were destined for the trash bin. Next, we store them in a ziptop freezer bag. Then we put our slow cooker to work to lazily bubble up 15+ cups of full-flavored stock. So, the answer is absolutely yes! You can make your own homemade stock. (PS: for our Vegetarian and Vegan friends, check out our Vegetable Stock!)We used a 6 quart slow cooker. While the volume is 24 cups, the stock ingredients do take up space, so you’ll yield more like 18-20 cups of stock. You’re looking to add a full gallon-sized zip top bag of ingredients (this was about 3 lbs for us) to the slow cooker. Your ingredients should be predominately chicken, onion, garlic and celery with a smaller ratio of carrot. Carrot is sweet and can take over the flavor of the stock.Take the flavor in different directions.-Add a cup of mushroom trimmings for a flavorful umami stock.-Pop 1 lb…
- Time: 480 min
- Servings: 18
Source: Red Stick Spice Recipes
Ingredients
- bony chicken pieces
- lbs Celery pieces and trimmings, Onion pieces, trimmings and papers and Garlic c
- carrot, cut in large chunks
- Handful parsley stems
- Peppercorns
- Whole Allspice Berries
- Bay Leaves