Never throw away your roasted turkey or chicken carcass!!! It's super easy to make a delicious broth that can be used for soup or in other recipes in place of canned broth.
1. Place your carcass and whatever is left from the pan drippings, skin and all in a stock pot and add about 2 quarts of water (depending on the size of your carcass). I recently used a little over 2 qts for a 5 lb turkey breast carcass.
2. Add a couple celery stalks and carrots cut into large pieces and some fresh thyme if you have it on hand. A couple shakes of dried thyme would work fine, too.
3. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer for about 3 hours. I usually just taste it occassionally to see if it's strong enough.
4. Let cool and strain broth into a lidded container. Refrigerate to let the fats solidify on top so you can skim them off.
5. Now, you know all those jars you keep "because you'll need them someday"?? Measure broth out in 1 or 2 C amounts, label your jars and freeze!
SO much better than the canned stuff!!
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