East-West Chicken Stock

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Soup

Ingredients

  • 4 lb. whole chicken
  • 1 cup chopped yellow onion
  • 1/2 cup chopped peeled Fuji apple
  • 1 bay leaf or 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled, cut into thick slices, and smashed
  • 3/4 cup chopped parsley or cilantro
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 7 1/2 cups water

Directions

  1. Use a sharp boning knife to remove the breasts, drumsticks, and thighs from chicken. Set aside. Remove the wings, and cut the carcass in half through backbone; place wings and both halves of carcass in a Instant Pot. Add water to barely cover. Bring to a boil over high (adjust the saute function on an Instant Pot). After foamy scum appears, remove from the heat, and turn off the cooker. Drain chicken parts; discard liquid. Rinse chicken parts with cold water, and return to cooker. Add reserved breasts, drumsticks, and thighs, onion, apple, bay leaf, parsley, salt and water.

  2. Secure pressure cooker lid. Heat over medium-high to bring to high pressure, and cook for 40 minutes. Remove from heat, and naturally depressurize for 25 minutes.

  3. Release residual pressure on pressure cooker. Remove and discard large solids from stock mixture. Set a fine wire-mesh strainer lined with paper towels, and pour stock through strainer. The stock will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days or frozen up to 3 months.

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