Name: Easy Homemade Chicken Stock
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 240 min
Total time: 255 min
Ingredients: 1 chicken carcass (from a roasted chicken) (or 6-8 bone-in chicken pieces, most of the meat removed); 3 carrots (roughly chopped); 2 stalks celery (roughly chopped); 2 onions (skin removed, roughly chopped); one handful of fresh parsley, chopped; 2 lemon slices (optional); 3/4 cup red or white wine; 3 teaspoons tomato paste; a dash of Worcestershire sauce; salt and pepper (to taste); 10-12 cups water; 1 tablespoon olive oil (ONLY FOR STOVE-TOP METHOD)

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This Easy Homemade Chicken Stock is the perfect recipe for making Chicken broth or stock at home! Make it on the stove-top or in the slow cooker to save time and money!

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I don’t know about you, but we know plenty of people who are in the middle of a crazy polar vortex right now – our friends and family are reporting temperatures as low as minus 52 degrees Celsius!! Thankfully we live in an area of the world with much milder winters (it was plus 9 degrees Celsius yesterday!), but that kind of cold is just crazy, in my opinion, and if temperatures like that don’t motivate you to make a nice big pot of this Easy Homemade Chicken Stock I don’t know what will!!

Several years ago I started making my own homemade chicken stock to save money. My husband is a big fan of roasted chicken, and so I’d roast a small chicken once a week or so and have the carcass left over. This Easy Homemade Chicken Stock is the perfect use for a leftover chicken carcass or even leftover chicken bones, if you roast your chicken in parts.

It’s SO easy to make on the stove if you have the time, but if you don’t (I never do!) it can be made in the slow cooker overnight. Yes, you read that right…this Easy Homemade Chicken Stock is SO EASY you can actually make it in your sleep. Literally.

What’s the difference between chicken stock and chicken broth?

Stock and broth are very similar, but with one main difference: Stock is made from boiling the bones of the chicken and broth is made from boiling the meat of the chicken. Both are delicious and work well in many recipes, although I prefer making stock since you’re able to develop a lot more flavour and colour, which results in a better-tasting homemade soup! If you’re not using previously roasted chicken bones for this recipe (it’s ok if there’s a little meat left on them!), be sure to roast the meat and bones first to get that gorgeous amber colour in your homemade stock!

Looking for more delicious cold-weather soup ideas? Try these 25 Comforting Winter Soups!!

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I hope you love this Easy Homemade Chicken Stock as much as we do! Let me know in the comments below, in what homemade soup recipe would YOU use this Easy Homemade Chicken Stock? I’d LOVE to know!

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