How to Boil a Chicken
Recipe to simmer a chicken and create broth that can be used for multiple recipes.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 60 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 mins
- Yield: 4-5 cups chicken 1x
- Category: Basic Skill
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 3-5 lb Chicken
- 16 cups (one gallon) of water (or enough to cover the chicken by an inch in the pot)
- 1 Tablespoon Kosher salt
- 1–2 medium carrot, cut in half
- 1 celery rib, cut in half
- 1 medium onion, quartered
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed
- 1–3 bay leaves
- peppercorns
Instructions
- Remove the chicken from its packaging, ensuring to remove anything in the cavity and trimming large pieces of fat, and place in a large stock pot.
- Add enough water to cover the chicken by at least an inch.
- Add the salt, carrot, celery, onion, garlic, bay leaf and peppercorns
- Bring to a boil on medium/high heat
- Reduce the heat and simmer for about 45 minutes until chicken is cooked through. (Turn chicken over at least once during the cooking process)
- Turn off the heat and remove the chicken from the stock pot to a large bowl
- Cover with foil and let cool for about one hour until cool enough to handle
- Debone the chicken
- Pour the chicken stock through a fine mesh sieve, throw out the vegetables and save the chicken stock
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