Simple Chicken or Turkey Stock

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Simple Chicken or Turkey Stock
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Serves: 10 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Carcass and Neck from 6 - 7 pound chicken
  • 2 celery stalks, cut in half
  • 2 carrots, cut in half
  • 1 Spanish onion, quartered
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt or more, to taste
Instructions
  1. Combine all the ingredients except for the salt in an 6 - 8 quart stockpot and generously cover with cold water. (If you have vegetables left over from roasting chicken, add them).
  2. Partially cover and cook over a medium flame until the mixture comes to a slow boil. Reduce heat to very low and cook, partially covered, for 3 hours. Do not let it boil during this time.
  3. Strain and refrigerate stock. Discard carcass and vegetables.
  4. When stock has completely cooled, skim off and discard the hardened fat. Add salt to taste.

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Add 1 parsnip, cut in half
1 teaspoon herb of your choice.