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Chicken Broth (Brodo e Pollo) for Tortellini

Author: Roz | La Bella Vita Cucina

Ingredients

  • One 6-pound chicken hen
  • 1 package beef soup bones (if you can get them)
  • 1 4- pound beef roast
  • 3 carrots cut in 3's
  • 1 large onion cut in 1/4's
  • 3 celery stalks with leaves cut into thirds
  • 1/4 bunch of Italian parsley chopped
  • salt

Instructions

  • Give that chicken a nice bath (clean it) and empty the contents of the cavity inside.
  • Cut up into large pieces so that it cooks a little bit faster than if you cook it whole.
  • Cut up all of your veggies.
  • Cut your beef roast up into about 2 or 3 large sections.
  • Fill a LARGE deep pot half way full of water.
  • Make sure that you have enough room from the top of the pot to put the rest of the ingredients in without overflowing the water.
  • Put all of the ingredients into the pot of water.
  • Cut fresh Italian parsley from my garden just minutes before chopping it up and putting it into the pot.....it is fresh, fresh, fresh!
  • Bring up the heat to high and get it to a low, rolling boil.
  • Immediately lower the heat and simmer until the beef is tender.
  • During this simmer, continually remove the junky stuff that rises to the top with a strainer.
  • The cooking on simmer and straining process takes about 2 - 3 hours.
  • Take all of the ingredients out of the broth with a hand strainer.
  • With very thin tea towels covering a colander/strainer, pour the broth through them into another pot......this is a lot of work and usually needs two people to do this.
  • Be careful, the broth is very hot while you do this!
  • Continue to strain the broth into clean tea towels about two more times until the broth is completely clear and free of any ingredient remains.
  • Taste, add more salt to taste.
  • If you make this the night before, refrigerate it, and then the next day, skim off any fat/grease from the top (it will solidify in the frig and be very easy to remove).

Notes

  • A Step-by-Step Photo Guide is on my blog to help you make this delicious Chicken Broth.