Bone broth {also known as stock} used to be a staple in every home in days long gone. Our society of fast food and supermarkets made this tasty, nutritious super food all but obsolete. Why take the time to make stock when you can easily buy a can or box of pre-made broth instead? Well, those store-bought alternatives might be easy, but they possess nowhere near the nutrition or flavor that homemade stock has. Fortunately, homemade poultry stock has been making a serious comeback!
If you’re serious about your cooking tasting amazing, then {as every chef already knows}, homemade stock {also often called bone broth} is an absolute necessity. And if you’re serious about your health, again, bone broth is a must.
Benefits of Homemade Poultry Stock
There are many benefits that can be gleaned from consuming homemade poultry stock, but here are just a few to give you a glimpse into its power:
- Boosts immunity. Enjoying homemade chicken soup while recovering from a cold isn’t just coincidental. It helps you heal faster!
- Heals the gut. Maybe you have leaky gut syndrome or other such tummy troubles. Bone broth helps this, too.
- Assists with joint pain and inflammation. It makes you move better.
- Promotes healthy bones. Strengthen your bones thanks to the nutrition in homemade stock.
- Grows healthy hair and nails. Even your hair and fingernails will be healthier thanks to the gelatin in the broth.
Uses of Homemade Poultry Stock
You probably don’t particularly want to use stock for beauty recipes, but it’s great to ingest! Here are a few ways to eat it up:
- Drink it plain. Seasoned just right, homemade poultry stock is a serious treat. It is like comfort food and liquid gold in your mouth.
- Make soup. Use it as the base for many soup recipes.
- Create gravy. Mmmm…gravy! Stock makes perfectly delicious and healthy gravy to serve with mashed potatoes or your Thanksgiving meal.
What’s the Difference
So you may wonder what the difference is between poultry stock and beef stock. Well…not much really! The savory but slightly sweet flavor profile of the poultry stock recipe I’m sharing below has been tried and proven true to taste best with the lean flavor provided by poultry. I have a separate recipe for beef stock which I will probably share one of these days as well. However, it is totally okay to swap the chicken pieces with beef bones if you want to. It’ll still be super nutritious and yummy!
AMAZING. I tried this recipe last year for making gravy with Thanksgiving meal when the recipe was in the turkey roasting post. So easy and everybody raved over how good it was. It tastes so good just by itself too. Many homemade stocks I’d tried in past were pretty bland and gross lol.