You’ll always be one step ahead when making that pot of chicken soup.
Do you ever buy a pack of chicken that’s larger than you need when making dinner? Or perhaps the family pack was on sale, but you don’t need that much right now?
If you only use chicken bones for soup and not actual chicken pieces, this hack also works.
Reader Nechama N. shared that when she buys chicken bones for soup, she immediately divides them up into soup bags and freezes them so she can just dump them into the soup pot each week.
You’ll love knowing that the chicken for your soup is ready to go (one less item on the grocery list)!
For sure! When I skin chicken, I save the skin in ziplocs, portioned out, and freeze, and then toss that into the soup too. Adds tons of flavor.
Soup tastes much better with fresh chicken vs frozen…
You can always take it out the night before and defrost it!
That’s not fresh 😉
The chicken is never really fresh. Fresh would be right after shechting and Kashering. At the end of the day your “fresh” is really a dead chicken.
You can often buy chicken that was not yet frozen, that is what is meant by “fresh”. Many say you can’t compare.
I had an extra cutlet from a family pack and made cream of chicken right then
I do this with herbs in the “bug bags”
Great idea!
I switched to turkey drumsticks instead of chicken.
Brings the soup to next level.
I recently started doing the same. And then I use the turkey to make pulled turkey with bbq sauce. Its so easy to pull apart. Is almost as good as pulled beef. Family loves it.
Sometimes I specifically buy a whole chicken, cut it into portions and then do the same thing with all the bones and leftover pieces. Makes the chicken soup heavenly!
They sell pre netted chicken in my grocery it’s great
I also do this with vegetables. When I have too many carrots or parsnips or other soup vegetables I prep them, blanch them and pack in small bags ready to toss into a soup. Lightening the load when I make soup.
To make the soup more rich, you can add noodles or rice to the soup, creating a nutritious meal.
This is such a simple yet brilliant idea! I always end up with leftover chicken bones, and this is the perfect way to make use of them. Thanks for sharing this tip!