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Homemade Chicken Stock

Ingredients
  

  • 2 whole chickens cut up by the butcher (backs included)
  • 4-5 carrots unpeeled and cut into halves
  • 3-4 celery sticks cut into halves
  • 2-3 onions cut in half unpeeled
  • nice big handful of fresh dill
  • 2 T. kosher salt

Instructions
 

  • I used a 10 quart stock pot.
  • Place the chickens in the pot along with the onions, carrots, celery, dill, salt
  • Fill pot with water pretty high in pot.
  • Cover and bring up to a boil.
  • Lower to a simmer and slide the cover off a drop to create a little crack for evaporation.
  • Cook on this low simmer 6-8 hours and every 2 hours I add about 4 cups of water as it evaporates. (I do this 2-3 times)
  • Remove from heat and skim out all of the chicken/veggies and discard them.
  • Can pass stock through a strainer, too.
  • This stock can be cooled and frozen for future recipes or used to make soup!