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healthy homemade chicken broth

Healthy Homemade Chicken Broth

4.86 from 7 votes
Create delicious chicken broth at home using leftover roast chicken and vegetable scraps. This broth will comfort you like no other and enhance your favorite soups and sauces.
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 roasted chicken leftovers meat and bones
  • 4-8 cups combination of vegetable scraps and fresh vegetables onions, celery, carrots, garlic, mushrooms, lemon, oregano, thyme, pepper
  • 8-10 cups water as needed to cover stockpot contents

Method
 

  1. Add chicken leftovers and vegetables to a large stockpot over high heat. Fill with water until covered.
  2. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 hour.
  3. Let cool and strain.