This flavorful broth is made with the bones, feet and wings of pasture-raised chickens.
Add a splash (or more) of apple cider vinegar to draw out the minerals and slow-cook on low temperatures.
Perfection AND Nutritious!
Bone broth is not only a staple in our household, but has been a staple in most cultures for thousands of years.
Why?
Because in this most simple food, your body is nourished with bio-available minerals like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals.
And when it comes to our children, we want to ensure that not only are we nourishing them, and giving them building blocks for health, but that we are also providing them with the foods the body can easily digest.
Bone broth does this in spades!
It stimulates and supports digestion, allowing whatever food you eat with it easier to digest. Why? because of the gelatin.
This one food is our ancestors guiding us to better health - every traditional peoples around the globe included bones in their diet, typically in the form of a gelatin-rich broth.
“Homemade broth, of course, is a whole food product. It’s a slow food, whole food, and real food that has been nourishing and healing people for tens of thousands of years.” - Sally Fallon
Sunday Dinner
In the Fall and Winter, you will find a roasted chicken on our dinner table. Why? Because I save the bones for my bone broth.
But I didn't used to. Prior to my understanding of the nourishing, ancestral, way of eating, that chicken carcass landed in the trash.
Not anymore! Nowadays, the carcass lands in my freezer until I'm ready to make a large batch of broth.
Why is this such a staple in our house?
Because the collagen and cartilage in bone broth are even more important to building strong bones than calcium.
Something we all need, but especially our growing kids. The minerals are in a highly absorbable form creating an electrolyte solution that is far superior to anything else we can consume.
Translation - strong constitutions in ourselves and our children.
Bulk Cooking!
I'm a busy professional mom. I don't have the time to make a batch of broth every week!
Further, in the Summer, it's too dang hot to make a roasted chicken.
So I bulk cook my broth:
It takes one carcass, plus feet, wings and another back (that I purchase from my local farm or butcher). I get about 3 weeks worth of broth - approximately 7 quartz size mason jars and 2 1/2-quart size jars.
The carcass from my roasted dinner? Well that lives in my freezer until I'm ready. And candidly, I normally have about three-to-four of them in the freezer by the time Spring rolls around.
Broth Vs. Stock - What's the Difference
If you Google the question, "What the difference between stock and broth?", you're going to see a whole host of answers, mainly stating that broth doesn't cook for very long and includes meat and vegetables. Stock is with just bones.
Here is my answer: In my world, they are interchangeable.
I don't load up my broth with a lot of vegetables. It's got ginger, peppercorns, salt, pepper, Kombu, apple cider vinegar, and a bay leaf. That's it.
But you could make a glorious mineral rich bone broth like the one from Rebecca Katz, just cook it for at least 12-hours.
In my world of nutrient-dense cooking, there is zero difference between the two. My broth recipe is a minimalist broth.
Quality, Quality, Quality!
I really can't overstate this. The quality of the food we consume has a direct link to the quality of your health.
Plain and simple!
If you don't happen to live in an area where you can easily locate pasture-raised meat, that's OK.
There are high quality, conscientious farms/retailers who will ship pasture-raised meat and wild-caught seafood to your doorstep.
Two that come to mind are US Wellness Meats and Vital Choice.
It's worth every penny!
What do you use your broth in?
Almost everything!
Making a soup - the broth is the foundation.
Making a stew - the broth is the foundation.
Cooking rice or barley or lentils - whip it up with broth.
Have a sick child - warm up some broth and mix it with a small squeeze of lemon and a bit of sea salt and ghee.
It's truly the jack-of-all-trades when it comes to your culinary and nutrient-dense dining adventures and is a super-hero for your health.
My Last Word on Bone Broth!
There are a few basics in transitioning yourself and your family to an ancestral diet. Bone broth should be your very first step.
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