Instant Pot Bone Broth

Nourishing Bone Broth is just the thing to keep your family healthy during cold and flu season. Rich and flavorful, use it as a soup base or just drink by the mugful.

The Instant Pot is a fabulous tool for full flavored, wholesome homemade chicken bone broth. Your fall and winter soups will be FULL of nutritious, immune boosting broth. What a tasty way to stay healthy!

🤷 Why Make Instant Pot Bone Broth

While the word 'instant' might be a bit misleading in this case, as this recipe still does take about three hours, it is a lot faster than the traditional chicken bone broth soup stove top method that could take over twelve hours, usually taking overnight.

You can easily buy broth at the grocery store and don't get me wrong, I have definitely used store bought broth in a pinch, but there is truly no comparison to homemade bone broth. With homemade, you control the quality of the ingredients from the water (I use filtered) to the veggies (organic) and finally the bones, which produces the most amazing organic bone broth. I don't think Campbell's is sourcing out local, free range wing tips.

Speaking of wing tips, those are my secret ingredient for a super thick gel like consistency. And by my secret, I mean the tip I was given by the older Asian lady that runs the poultry counter at the market where I shop. Wing tips are the best bones for bone broth.

Wing tips are those tiny, pointy pieces that are shaped like a feather at the end of a large chicken wing. They consist of almost completely skin, bone, and cartilage, and don't have much meat at all.

I have used chicken feet before as well as chicken wing bones, but the best bones for bone broth are wing tips. They give you just as much gel and are far less creepy than the feet. Let me tell you...straining out those feet is unpleasant! I buy a four pound bag and split the three pounds I don't use into separate bags and freeze them. What do you want that gel for anyway?

Benefits of Bone Broth

There are so many benefits for making your own broth. Here is a brief list:

• Stronger, healthier nails
• Can improve sleep
• Anti-aging
• Anti-tumor
• Anti-inflammatory
• Cell-protecting
• Arthritis and joint-pain relief
• Hydrating
• Immune boosting
• Muscle building

While it's mostly used as a soup base, drinking bone broth daily is not only delicious but has so many health benefits! Drinking it is a great way to get more natural collagen into your body. I could go on, but I'm sure you get the picture.

Simply put: Bone Broth is good. 🙂

🛒 Ingredients You'll Need

The beauty of this recipe is that it's extremely versatile. You can use a variety of vegetable scraps. Some of my favorites are carrots and their peelings, celery stalks, and kale stems. I always use onions and garlic and I leave their peelings in place. When making broth, I don't peel the onions or garlic.

📋 Step-By-Step Recipe Instructions

This is the best bone broth and it's simple to make.

First, gather the bones, some fresh cloves of garlic, an onion, apple cider vinegar, and your favorite veggie scraps. Expert Tip: The apple cider vinegar is said to help pull the minerals out of the bones. Bonus!

Stir everything together in the Instant Pot and lock in the lid in place. Pressure cook on manual/high for 120 minutes (2 hours). Once finished, let the Instant Pot naturally release its pressure.

Once done, carefully remove the lid and using a slotted spoon, remove the veggies and bones and discard. Wait for the pot to cool down enough to handle (or use pot holders) and carefully strain the liquid into glass storage containers. Expert Tip: I split the pressure cooker broth into 2 glass-lock containers that holds 4 cups each.

Place the containers into the fridge and by the next morning, you will be rewarded with the most lovely gel you can imagine.

Store this in the fridge or keep it for longer in your freezer.

It has the nicest, richest globules of fat. The GOOD fat. The fat that feeds your brain, muscles and keeps your gut happy.

💭 Expert Tips and FAQs

• A tip I use, which is also a bonus for reducing waste, is to freeze all of your vegetable scraps. Keep a large freezer bag on the go and whenever veggies get used during the week (like stalks from the kale for my smoothies ) toss them in the freezer bag, squeeze the air out, reseal and pop the bag back into the freezer. Onion skins add an especially nice color to your broth. When the freezer bag is full, it is time to get cooking!
• This chicken bone broth will keep in the fridge for week or 2 months in the freezer.
• Here's where you can buy an Instant Pot on Amazon -  Instant Pot
• A good base for this recipe is onions, carrots, and celery. I always add more vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, mushrooms, leeks, broccoli stem, and asparagus!

🥣 Soups Recipes You Can Make with Instant Pot Bone Broth

I love making my Healthy Chicken Noodle Soup using this recipe. This soup recipe is already healthy, but when I substitute store bought chicken broth with this recipe, the nutritional value is out of this world!

This recipe also works well with creamy based soup, like my Greek Lemon and Chicken Soup (Avgolemono Soup).

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Update Notes: This post was originally published in October 2018, but was re-published with updated step-by-step instructions, pictures, and tips in September 2020.