{"id":52702,"date":"2019-03-05T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=52702"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:14","slug":"homemade-chicken-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/homemade-chicken-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Chicken Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you roast a chicken, save the bones and make your own homemade stock. Making homemade chicken stock is one of the easiest and healthiest things you can do for yourself.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52710 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66.png\" alt=\"Untitled design(66)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66.png 800w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Untitled-design66-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><br \/>\n1 chicken carcass, meat removed<br \/>\n1\u00a0 large onion, roughly chopped (no need to peel!)<br \/>\n2 large carrots, roughly chopped<br \/>\n2 celery ribs, roughly chopped<br \/>\nA few sprigs of parsley, thyme or a bay leaf (or a combination of the three)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What To Do<br \/>\n<\/strong>Place the chicken carcass in a pot and cover completely with water, plus an extra inch of water. Bring to a simmer on very low heat. Skim off any foam or film that has floated to the top of the stock.<\/p>\n<p>Add your vegetables and herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Continue to simmer for approximately 5 hours, adding water to maintain the original water level. Strain the stock and discard the solids.<\/p>\n<p>Let the stock cool, then separate into portion-sized containers. Refrigerate stock for up to a week or freeze it indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post written by our meat &amp; poultry buyer, Jonathan Feola.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you roast a chicken, save the bones and make your own homemade stock. Making homemade chicken stock is one of the easiest and healthiest things you can do for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1621,2732],"tags":[3151],"class_list":["post-52702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easy-diy","category-recipes","tag-chicken-stock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52702"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52759,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52702\/revisions\/52759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}