{"id":254,"date":"2020-03-22T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=254"},"modified":"2020-03-22T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T19:25:23","slug":"brown-chicken-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/03\/brown-chicken-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown chicken stock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago we had some chicken legs (thighs and drumsticks), but had decided to take the meat off the bones to stir fry – so we were left with the bones and various scraps plus the skin. I’m trying to be a bit more conscientious about not wasting food, so decided I should make something with these scraps. I found a recipe for brown chicken stock in delicious magazine<\/a> and decided I’d do a variation on that. To be honest I didn’t follow the recipe that closely – it more just inspired me …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d be blanching some broccoli and green beans to freeze, so I reserved the water from that to use to make the stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I put the chicken scraps in a roasting pan and cooked them on 180-200C for about half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken scraps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While that was happening, I chopped some carrot and onion, and softened that in some oil for 20 minutes or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the vegetables were soft and the chicken brown I added the chicken to the veg, and deglazed the roasting pan with some sherry and put that in as well. I then added the broccoli cooking water and a little more cold water (probably about 2 litres altogether, but that’s a bit of a guess), a bay leaf and a little bit of rosemary that I had going dry and then brought it all up to a simmer and left it to reduce for several hours – at least 3, possibly 4 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stock reducing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It reduced by about two thirds it’s original volume – it produced around 600ml stock after I’d strained it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I strained the stock through a sieve and then through the sieve with a little bit of muslin in the bottom (which I’d rescued from a supermarket bought bouquet garni which I’d used to make soup previously.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final result was a cloudy brown stock that doesn’t look that great but definitely has the right flavour. I’ll be using it to make something later in the week …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we had some chicken legs (thighs and drumsticks), but had decided to take the meat off the bones to stir fry – so we were left with the bones and various scraps plus the skin. I’m trying to be a bit more conscientious about not wasting food, so decided I should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}