How to use + store bone broth

"Bone broth is a staple in my family's diet...broth, you see, is a nutritional powerhouse."

--Jenny McGruther from Nourished Kitchen

Bone broths have long been an essential element in traditional foods circles.  Historically, preparing the whole animal has been important to preindustrial societies all over the world—this includes boiling the bones for a healthy soup.  Well, it’s safe to say that bone broth has crossed over into the mainstream with restaurants adding them to menus, and even a walk-up take-out window in New York where you can stroll up for broth in a cup! 

To learn more about this nutritional powerhouse, we turned to none other than traditional foods blogger Jenny McGruther from Nourished Kitchen.  She’s been making her own bone broth for years and uses it daily in her cooking, even sipping it from a mug sprinkled with salt, garlic, and a bit of fresh parsley.  Needless to say, she knows what she’s doing when it comes to this age-old soup.  Jenny gives us the 411 on everything you need to know about bone broth and why this latest health food trend is here to stay. 

Bone Broth Benefits

Bone broths are rich in nutrients and easy-to-assimilate minerals and amino acids.  To break it down, here's how broth does a body good:

• Supports the detoxification process
• Aids digestion
• Heals the gut
• Helps skin by boosting skin-plumping collagen
• Combats the side effects of colds, flus and respiratory infections

Health benefits aside bone broth is also a flavorful, inexpensive and convenient item to have on hand for adding to your favorite recipes in place of water or bland store-bought stock.  What’s not to love?  For more details on the benefits of bone broth, including the key differences between Broth, Stock, and Bone Broth visit Nourished Kitchen.

 

How to Make and Store Bone Broth

Interested in incorporating this ancient elixir into your daily life but don’t have the time to wait for a pile of bones to boil?  Jenny’s got a genius solution for you with her recipe for making perpetual broth in a slow cooker.  It’s the easiest soup you’ll ever make and a great way to use up all those veggie scraps throughout the week.

Get the Recipe for Perpetual Bone Broth >>

If you choose to make a batch over the weekend, there are many ways to store it for convenient use throughout the week.  Jenny suggests 4 different ways of storing broth in batches:

• Freeze it
• Reduce it
• Make portable soup
• Dehydrate it

Get the details: 4 ways to store bone broth>>

To get started enter for a chance to win our $500 Giveaway at Nourished Kitchen!  If you have more questions, visit her blog where Jenny has gathered her most frequently asked questions about bone broth.

 

Have you tried Bone Broth yet?  Anything standing in your way?  Let us know your questions below and we'll pass them along to Jenny, the traditional foods expert.