The Best Instant Pot Bone Broth

Maria — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:34:00 +0000

This instant pot bone broth is so simple to make and takes no time at all to make. Just save your left over bones and you can have bone broth in just a few hours. This is a gut healthy food that nourishes your body from the inside out all by simmering some bones and veggies if you choose.

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Why make The Best Instant Pot Bone Broth?

Bone broth is incredibly healthy for you. It is well known for it’s ability to heal and seal the gut lining. It has a lot of nutrients that is found in the bones and the joints. You have bone marrow and collagen to name a couple things.

It is wonderful to add it to your meals as you cook or drinking it warm with a little bit of salt for added flavor. When you save up the bones from cooking a chicken or the bones from a ham roast or even a steak, you then have all you need to make this healthy broth.

When you make your own bone broth at home, you know it’s the best. What you can buy at the store isn’t of the best quality since they don’t cook it for as long as it should be done. You also don’t know the quality of the bones that are being used.

Let’s not forget that when you make your own, your saving money by saving the bones from previous meals.

What are the health benefits of bone broth?

It is known for being able to heal and seal the gut lining. Babies tend to have a “leaky gut” and when they are to start solids. Bone broth probably one of the best things you can give them before they start solid foods. It will help their gut to seal up so they have an easier time digesting their food.
It may help your skin to have more elasticity.
The collagen may help to support your joints.
It’s very high in quality protein.

How to use The Best Instant Pot Bone Broth

Many people add it to the meals they cook. They will use it as a base when making soup or stews. You could also add it to your pot to cook rice in, instead of using water. I find it gives the rice more flavor and a nutritional boost. The same thing can be done when cooking your pasta.

A lot of people, like myself, like to just warm it up on the stove, add some salt for flavor and drink it like that.

Here’s a good recipe that I like to use as a base for my bone broth.

Can I use my slow cooker to make bone broth?

You can use your slow cooker. A lot of people don’t have an instant pot and will use their crock pot instead. It does take longer to make the bone broth, usually about a whole day or longer. You also loose a lot of liquid when it cooking because the lid is not sealed like an instant pot lid. Also, be careful if you are using an older model of a slow cooker because they can be lined with some not so healthy things. You can read more on that here.

How to Make The Best Instant Pot Bone Broth?

First you will want to save up some bones. I like to keep a gallon zip lock bag in my freezer that I just add any bones to until the bag is full.
Let your bones thaw a bit. This will make it easier to get it to fit in your instant pot since mine usually forms one giant lump in the bag.
Add enough bones to the pot to make it 1/2 to 3/4 full.
Here is where its optional – you can add any scrap veggies you have. Celery, onions, carrots, etc. I don’t but you can if you please, it can add some flavor to the final product.
Apple Cider vinegar – just a few tablespoons (I like the Bragg brand that has the “Mother”). It’s optional though, for health reasons I don’t add any and mine turns out just fine.
Fill the pot with water until it’s just a little bit above the top of the bones.
Place the insert in the instant pot and put the lid on and turn the knob on top to “Seal”.
Once your machine is on, press the Soup/Broth button and set it to low pressure for 3 hours.
Once it’s finished and your ready, strain out the bones. I like to give them to my chickens, they get calcium from the brittle bones as well as lots of protein, which means better eggs for me.
I then like to put a funnel over a half gallon jar with a fine mesh strainer to filter out the small bits of bone and meat.

How to store Instant Pot Bone Broth?

After I strain the bone broth, I let it cool to room temperature. I then store my bone broth in the fridge in mason jars for up to a week.

Once it’s been in the fridge for 12 hours or so you will find that it will be like Jello in your container. This is from all the collagen that was pulled from the bones. When you see this, you know that you had a good ratio of water to bones in your pot. You want to have the jelling, that is what makes a healthy bone broth.

How to freeze Instant Pot Bone Broth?

You can store it in mason jars, be careful to fill to just below the bottom of the neck to allow for expansion or at least an inch below the top of the jar if using a straight neck jar.

You can also put it in ice cube trays to make for easy distribution if you just want it to season a small dish.

I like to freeze mine in small blocks. I will add them to some Super Cubes silicone molds and freeze them in that and then pop them out and store in gallon zip lock bags.

I like to use this 1 cup portion size when I freeze bone broth.

Left to Right – 1 cup, 2 cup, 1/2 cup and 2 Tbsp

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