Best Chicken Bone Broth (Instant Pot)
You just won’t find a more delicious, homemade chicken bone broth recipe than this one. Containing natural collagen, this Instant Pot chicken bone broth is nourishing, wholesome, and super quick and easy to make!
Servings: 2 quarts
Calories: 30kcal
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1 whole, uncooked chicken *
- 1 onion sliced into 8 pieces
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- water enough water to just cover the top of the ingredients
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to your Instant Pot, in the order listed.1 whole, uncooked chicken *, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon sea salt, ½ teaspoon black pepper, 2 teaspoon turmeric powder, water
- Properly close the Instant Pot with its lid and set to cook on high pressure heat for 30 minutes.
- Once it is done, allow 15 minutes for natural pressure release before releasing the quick steam valve.
- Then remove the meat from the bones and set meat aside to enjoy in soups/sandwiches/salads.
- Then continue cooking the bones by setting cook time to 90 minutes on high pressure, and then allow 15 minutes of natural pressure release before using the quick release steam valve.
- Using a colander, fine-mesh sieve, or cheesecloth, strain the bone broth into a large pot, discarding the bones and onion.
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Notes
*You can also use a leftover chicken carcass with some meat and skin left on it or just use a mixture of 4-5 lbs chicken parts on the bone (like legs, breast, wings, or thighs). The extra skin and meat on the bones will give more flavor to the bone broth. The more chicken bones and meat, the more nutritious and richer the broth. Just make sure you remove the meat from the bones after 30 minutes so that it doesn't overcook.
This is controversial and obviously optional, but I rinse the chicken because it's important to me to get rid of any plastic residue that's been leached onto to the chicken from the packaging. I then sanitize my sink right after so there's no issue with contamination.
You can use the bone broth for a soup base, gravy, sip it as is, or concentrate it down either for sauces or for freezing without taking up much freezer space.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 30kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.3g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.05g | Sodium: 3491mg | Potassium: 138mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 4IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 1mg