Simple Chicken Bone Broth
I love using my oven in the winter to roast just about anything. About two times per month we roast an organic chicken and then I use the carcass to make stock/broth for soups. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember and learned it from Ma McCarthy. But years ago, I never knew what a healing superfood I was making until I became a nutritionist. I’m so excited to share this information with you!
Bone broth has many benefits including:
Wonderful source of very easy-to-digest minerals including calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus
Fantastic source of amino acids. If your broth congeals when it’s refrigerated you know you’ve got lots of gelatin which contains amino acids essential for healthy bones and connective tissue like tendons and ligaments.
Incredible for the building and the healing of the digestive system. Bone broth helps reduce allergies by aiding in the integrity of the gut lining
Immune boosting and anti-inflammatory making it very healing for autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, crohn’s and colitis
Simple Bone Broth
Now that sweet Vienna is ready for eating and drinking more than just breast milk I was super excited to introduce her to bone broth. Guess what? She LOVED it! She’s had avocado, sweet potato, applesauce and banana and the bone broth was by far her favourite. Next up she will have some egg yolks — I’m not going to introduce the white until much later.
She’s having about 2 tbsp per day of the broth because breast milk is still the main source of her nutrition. Solids and broth will only be complementary to breast milk for a few more months as I don’t want to “wean” her for a while yet. A