Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth (2024)

FAQs

Can you overcook bone broth in an Instant Pot? ›

It's absolutely possible to overcook Instant Pot bone broth.

Keep an eye on your cook time and especially your depressurizing time. Overcooked bone broth will taste bitter and I can't imagine it'd be very enjoyable.

Making bone broth in your Instant Pot is easy, economical, and healthy. It's a great way to stretch your food dollar and provide your body with a boost of nutrients and protein.

That minimum ratio—a pound of chicken per quart of water—was sufficient to extract enough gelatin from the wings to give me the loosely gelled stock above. If you can pack in even more chicken and aromatics, your stock will only get richer and more gelatinous.

This way of using bone broth is SUPER simple. Simply substitute broth for water at a 1:1 ratio. For instance, instead of 2 cups water, use 2 cups broth. If you've only got 1 cup on hand, use it and then add a cup of water.

Instant pot bone broth can be as healthy as regular made versions. You can achieve the same gel consistency as you can with a traditional long simmer in a stock pot.

A pressure cooker makes bone broth in a fraction of the time the slow cooker does, but both are excellent options. We've shared methods for both below, it all depends on what works best for your timeframe.

Traditional recipes recommend using bones rich in marrow and flavor, such as beef marrow bones, oxtails, beef feet or beef neck bones. For this article, we will focus on beef marrow bones. To make a nutritious and delicious beef bone broth, we recommend using beef marrow bones or beef oxtails.

Keep adding water if it evaporates and the levels drop below the bones. Add a splash of Apple Cider Vinegar. This helps to leach the minerals out of the bones and increases the nutrient content of your broth. On Stove Top turn up the Heat until the water just bubbles.

Bone broth (despite the higher price tags) is basically another name for stock. It is thick and contains collagen. Some chefs say that to make really good bone broth the bones need to have been cooked for a long period of time for more collagen and flavor.

Thankfully, the collagen and amino acids in bone broth are incredibly beneficial for joint aches and pains. While everyone is different, we've seen customers rave about joint pain disappearing with regular bone broth consumption. To see benefits for joints and cartilage, we suggest drinking 2-4 cups of broth per day.

Is 2 cups of bone broth a day too much? ›

Not only does it help build and repair muscle tissue, but it's also been shown to support satiety and reduce levels of ghrelin, the hormone responsible for stimulating feelings of hunger. Typically, around two to four cups per day is recommended to support weight loss and boost muscle building.

Transfer the bones mixture to a very large pot or saucepan with a lid. Add the celery, bay leaves and peppercorns and cover with cold water – it should come about 5cm/2in above the contents of the pan. Drizzle in the vinegar. Cover with a lid and bring to the boil, then turn the heat to a very low simmer.

Canora cautions against overcooking your bone broth, which can actually seriously hamper the flavor. Once you go past the 16-hour mark or so, “you start breaking down the bone itself and it starts infusing a bad flavor to your broth,” he explains.

Typically, bone broth simmers for a surprisingly long period of time. Cooking it for 12 hours produces a deeply flavorful and excellent result, but it's not uncommon to let bone broth cook for 24 or even 36 hours—at which point the bones begin to crumble, and their nutrients and proteins seep into the broth.

Unfortunately, once you overcook a piece of meat in the pressure cooker, there's no going back. You'll be left with a pile of dry, crunchy, tasteless fibers and no amount of additional pressure cooking is going to put that moisture back into the meat.

Bone broth should simmer covered for at least 12 hours for the best flavor. Cooking it for 24 hours provides even deeper flavor and more nutrients as the bones slowly break apart.