What’s Inside: Follow these steps at home to make gut-healing 24-hour slow cooker chicken bone broth. Made with chicken bones (or turkey), vegetables, fresh herbs, and lemon juice, this homemade bone broth is rich in flavor and nutrients. It is also AIP diet-friendly, Paleo, and Whole30 compliant.
As a holistic nutritionist, I love to create delicious food that fills my body with comfort and joy, as well as a heap of goodness. This Slow Cooker Chicken Bone Broth also tastes great with turkey bones! You can drink it on its own, but it also makes a great base for smoothies and healthy homemade soups. If you’re interested in more gut-healthy cooking, you’ve come to the right place and can check out my Paleo Gut Healing Cookbook for more tips.
Let’s talk bone broth. Is this just another health or food trend? NO! This is here to stay and I’m so happy it is. This is an old old old remedy, there’s really nothing new about it. If your Grandmother used to make you broth or chicken soup when you were sick – you know what I’m talking about. The benefits are truly amazing.
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Drinking or incorporating bone broth and healthy homemade soups regularly into your diet is so supportive to gut health. You can buy bone broth, however, it can get pricey to buy so often. Making it at home is best because you know what’s in it AND it takes very little effort to make. With only 15 minutes of prep time, the rest is leaving it alone. It might sound intimidating but I promise you it’s not.
If this has you wondering how to add bone broth to your diet, then try an easy soup made with chicken bone broth. Or a fruity blueberry smoothie filled with the goodness of chicken bone broth.
tip! Make broth-making a routine by cooking a whole chicken on Sundays for dinner and use the carcass to make bone broth for the week!
Read: 5 ways to include more bone broth in your diet regularly here.
To make this delicious and nutritious homemade chicken bone broth, gather up the following ingredients:
This chicken bone broth take 24 hours to cook in the slow cooker. But don’t worry, it only takes 15 minutes to prepare and you can walk away and let it cook and marinate overnight.
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Tip: Heat in a mug and drink 1-2 cups a day for amazing results in your digestion, skin, energy, and more!!
Storing Tip: Measure your freezer to see how many mason jars and what size jars a shelf can hold so you can stock it with broth!
Wiggly broth? If you notice gelatin forming on the top when it’s cooled, that’s more than okay… it’s GREAT! That means you have an extra juicy batch, it will dissolve when you re-heat it to drink. It’s also totally okay if you don’t find that, every batch is different.
What’s with the fat? If you have a “fatty” top when your broth starts to cool, that’s also normal! USE IT. Skim it off and store it in a small container to use as “Shmaltz” which makes a tasty cooking fat.
Using a funnel when you strain and pour will make for less mess!
If I had to choose, I think the morning is the best time. This is the time of day your body is at it’s best and can properly absorb all the nutrients in your glass.
The short answer is NO. I recommend you season it to taste when you are turning your broth into soups or drinks. This is just to avoid an overconcentration of salt.
Technically you can – but I like to warm mine if I am drinking it on its own. I don’t bother warming it up if I am turning it into a smoothie though!
If you loved this Slow Cooker Chicken Broth you may now be wondering how to add bone broth to your diet? Check out this list of drinkable goodness that will put your homemade bone broth to delicious and nutritious use:
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