I love making homemade bone broth in the cold winter months. I warm a cup up and sip on it before bed. If drinking the broth alone isn’t appealing, try using it as a soup base. I also make this in a much faster pressure cooker. You can see how I made it here.
What is Bone Broth?
Bone broth is made when the bones of animals like beef and chicken are simmered in water, releasing all the amazing nutrients.
What makes Bone Broth so healthy?
As the bones simmer, they release powerful nutrients, including collagen, gelatin, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, and sulphur. These nutrients help boost and improve health.
Benefits of drinking Bone Broth:
Where do I even begin? Bone Broth helps with leaky gut syndrome, IBS, Crohn’s disease, joints, the immune system, and even skin. It is also said to help with weight loss.
According to Dr. Axe, Bone broth could be called “nature’s multivitamin.” It’s packed with:
- over 19 easy-to-absorb, essential and non-essential amino acids (the building blocks of proteins)
- collagen/gelatin, which helps form connective tissue
- nutrients that support digestive functions, immunity, and brain health
You can read more of this article here.
Something to keep in mind is that this is not the same broth you buy at the grocery store. Unfortunately, store-bought broths do not have the same nutrients as homemade broth. Think of it like a can of vegetables compared to fresh garden vegetables.
What ingredients do I need?
All you need for bone broth is soup bones. Some examples are oxtail, marrow bones, and even short ribs. I just go to my local grocery store and ask the butcher for soup bones, Apple Cider Vinegar, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, and filtered water.
You can mix different bones, too. Leftover turkey bones and or chicken bones are great.
If you don’t want to make your bone broth, you can purchase pre-made bone broth and have it shipped right to your door. I have heard great things about this company.
If you don’t have time to make bone broth in the slow cooker, you can use a pressure cooker. See my recipe here.
Bone Broth Recipe in Slow Cooker
Ingredients
- 2-3 pounds of soup bones like Beef Pipe Bones (ask your butcher) You can also mix these with marrow bones with a little bit of meat on them such as Oxtail or knuckle bones. Ask your butcher to cut these in half or into pieces. You can also use chicken bones.
- 2 carrots cut in half. No need to peel them.
- 2 celery stems cut into thirds
- 1 small – medium onion, chopped White or Yellow
- 1-2 Tbsp. minced garlic
- 2 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar -Braggs Raw Unfiltered Organic Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother this helps to extract the nutrients from the bones.
- a little salt and pepper.
- water to cover the bones. Fill the slow cooker with water leaving a little room from the top.
Instructions
- Add soup bones to pressure cooker.
- Add apple cider vinegar and garlic.
- Add all vegetables and a little salt and pepper. (I like to season the broth before I actually drink it.)
- Add water covering bones. Almost to the top of the slow cooker
- Cook on low for 20-24 hours. Some slow cookers only go to 20 hours.
- Once it's finished remove bones, let cool then freeze them. You can actually use the bones one more time to make bone broth. Just freeze the bones.
- Remove vegetables and strain the broth.
- Pour yourself a cup of bone broth, salt to taste if desired.
- Let cool then store bone broth in mason jars for up to a week in the refrigerator.
- Or freeze in freezer safe containers for up to 3 months.
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