Homemade Beef Bone Broth

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Homemade Beef Bone Broth

This classic, beef bone broth gives you everything you need for the most nutritionally packed liquid to enhance any meal or provide warmth and nourishment for your body!

Prep Time5

Cook Time2

Total Time2 5

Course: Condiment

Cuisine: American

Servings: cups

Author: Cassy Joy Garcia

Ingredients

2 pounds beef bones marrow, knuckle, etc.
1 onion unpeeled and quartered
2 carrots unpeeled and cut into large chunks
1 bulb garlic unpeeled and cut in half cross-wise
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon black peppercorns whole
1 tablespoon sea salt
4 quarts water

Instructions

Instant Pot - combine all of the ingredients in the Instant Pot and cook on high pressure for 2 hours.
Slow Cooker - combine all of the ingredients in the crockpot and cook on low for 12-24 hours.
Stove - combine all of the ingredients in a large stockpot and cook on a low simmer for 12 hours.

Notes

Tips + Tricks:

Use less obvious bones. Use the bones/animal parts (short ribs, oxtails, knuckles, or neck bones, hooves, marrow bones) with the most cartilage and collagen to produce the heartiest broth.
Save your scraps. If you’re cooking anything with a bone (t-bone steaks, ribs, etc. or chicken carcass for chicken turmeric bone broth) or vegetables (onion, carrots, garlic), save the bones and veggie scraps in a bag in the freezer and make bone broth when it is full. Not only will they deliver nutrients and flavor, but it gives items you would otherwise throw away a second life.
Roast the bones. While not a necessary step, roasting the bones at 400℉ for 30 minutes prior to simmering add a richer, caramelised flavor to the broth.
Ask your local butcher for bones. Ask your local butcher if they have any bone or animal scraps you can use for your bone broth. This is usually a cost effective way to get bones on hand.

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