Or you can also use a large stockpot on the stovetop and let it simmer all day long! (Mmmmm your house will smell so yummy!)įYI: The longer you cook the bones, the more nutrient-dense your broth will be.Ĭheck out this easy bone broth recipe below that you can throw together in minutes!īones from a whole chicken or turkey. You can add vegetables, herbs and spices to add flavor to the pot with everything, then you can throw it into a slow cooker, leaving it to do it’s thing for 24-48 hours. The most common types of bones used for this include:Īll you need for a good bone broth is bones (see above.), water and a bit of apple cider vinegar (to help leach minerals from the bones). I have only ever made my bone broth with a chicken carcass from a rotisserie chicken, but you can use just about any bone! This stuff is AH-mazing for your body, and if you don’t believe me go ahead and do some research yourself! There is a reason why our grandmothers and their grandmothers made this when their kids were sick, because it worked and if it’s not broke… don’t fix it! Now I could sit here all day listing benefits, so you get the idea.
lol), it is easy for our bodies to digest and absorb, high gelatin protein that is full of amino acids, and it is also high in protein and rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur, and trace minerals which aid in tons of support for our hair and nails and good bone health, supports our immune system, and has collagen which in bone broth heals your gut lining and helps to reduce intestinal inflammation. From being an anti-inflammatory to the remedy for a common cold (clears throat. THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF COURSE!!!! There are so many health benefits to bone broth. (A lot of people make it and just drink the broth by itself every day to stay healthy which doesn’t sound like such a bad idea during the winter months! ) Either way, you drink or by itself, or prepare it in a soup, will be beneficial to your health and your body, so enjoy! I always make for my broth to be used for my vegetable chicken soup. Every time it has been so so good and better than the time before. My mom was actually the one who told me about bone broth, so I have been making it whenever the house gets a cold or sickness sweeping through it like the plague. This is what happens to us stay at home mamas when we are doing this all day and stuck in the house full of germs! We are most likely the next ones to catch it!! (AND I HAVE BEEN TAKING A SH** TON OF VITAMIN C!!!) But that is ok because I typically than begin to OD on echinacea, and bone broth soup… hence… why I am even writing this post because as I type, the bone broth is brewing away on the stove in preparations for tonight’s chicken vegetable soup! to… ME! Ugh!! We all know that is what we get for letting them sleep with us, cough on us, sneeze on us, wipe their noses, give them kisses and snuggles, clean up their puke and wipe their tears because their fever is just making them miserable. They were both now in school and passing germs back and forth to each other, then eventually…. Last winter, Grayson and Garrett were sick so much.