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The Best Homemade Chicken Broth

(for Tortilla Soup or Chicken N Dumplin)
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Equipment

  • Instant Pot

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Whole Chicken
  • 1 bundle carrots
  • 1 whole bundle celery
  • 4-5 whole garlic YES–GARLIC PALOOZA - I promise it will deepen the flavor!
  • 2 whole onions
  • 2-3 whole shallot
  • 2-3 whole jalapeño It won’t be spicy - you can use whatever hot peppers you have on hand…thai chiles, habaneros, serrano pepper, etc.
  • Celtic Salt

Instructions
 

  • Put clean chicken in Instant Pot, add in all chopped vegetables, (carrots, celery, garlic, onion, shallot, jalapeño)
  • Select “Slow Cook”.
  • Soup will cook for 8 hours. Don’t worry if you go to bed and it goes beyond 8 hours, the Instant Pot will just go into a “warming” setting.
  • In 8 hours once the chicken broth is finished, allow it to cool for several hours.
  • Then run your hand through and pull out the skin and gently shred the chicken with your hands.. Slimy skin while eating soup is not it. But if you like it—just leave it.

Notes

You can absolutely freeze this in containers for later use. Personally, I always make it and store it in the freezer with the hopes that if I ever get a cold —I’ll have homeade soup—it never happens though, because I hit a lazy week & don’t feel like cooking & end up reaching for the frozen soup lol.