Chicken Stock

Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Complex

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
We're Hungry!: Batch Cooking Your Family Will Love

By Ciara Attwell

Published 2021

  • About

If you cook a whole roast chicken then it really is worth keeping the carcass and making your own homemade chicken stock the following day. It’s probably a lot easier than you think and the result is well worth the effort.

Ingredients

  • 1 cooked chicken carcass
  • 3 carrots
  • 3 celery sticks
  • 1

Method

  1. Add the chicken carcass to a very large saucepan or stock pot.
  2. Roughly chop the carrots, celery and onion. There is no need to peel these. Add to the pot.
  3. Crush the garlic with the back of a knife but leave it whole. Add that to the pot.
  4. Add 3 litres