how to boil chicken for stock

[southeastastra]

then what do you do with the stock? fed up of throwing away lots

I make lots of soup

freeze it in pots and use it every time you make soup/stew/curry... wherever you'd chuck in a stock cube. Yum

freeze it in stock cubes for the next time you make gravy.

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Minestrone; Dice onions and peppers and mushrooms and celery and smoked streaky bacon.add grated carrots and potato tothicken.Then add 2 tins tomatoes and garlic and herbs and spaghetti broken up.Add water and a dash of worcester sauce andtomato puree.Simmer and serve with crusty bread.

you can freeze the bones from different chickens then make a big stock pot in one go - you need onion, carrot, celery, bay leaf, poss other herbs and boil the bones up for a good couple of hours or so on a steady simmer, and yes, use it as base for soups, or as liquid for stews, casseroles, sauces, or as medicinal broth if someone's got a cold.

if you boil the stock right down so it reduces and its thick you can add some sweetcorn dash of soy sauce and a little beaten egg on top and you have chinese chicken and sweetcorn soup

You can buy a whole chicken and take into pieces (cheaper than buying the pieces; requires a small very sharp knife and a bit of squidgy effort, there's a good web tutorial at wonderhowto.com but you can find others by searching for 'deboning a chicken').

Then, you can make stock with the bones - I think I remember someone saying it tastes better if you roast the bones for a bit, so you could try doing that with herbs and the other veg you'll then use for making the stock later. simple recipe for stock here.

Use stock to make risotto, it only tastes right with proper stock. A bit of a faff but seriously worth it.

Nigel slater does a good recipe somewhere, as does Jamie Oliver. My method is in my head and has no measurements attached so a bit difficult to explain.

And stock makes any number of good soups, gravy etc. Use wherever you would use a stock cube.

oh, and second littleteapot as to the method. Either use raw carcasses from which you have used the meat for something else, or the leftovers from a roast.

Buy a pack of raw chicken wings and bung them in the pot too, lots of extra bones, and not expensive.