Basic Beef Broth Food

HOMEMADE BEEF BROTH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. In a large roasting pan, bake soup bones, uncovered, 30 minutes. Add carrots, celery and onions. Bake 30 minutes; drain fat., Using a slotted spoon, transfer bones and vegetables to a large Dutch oven. Add warm water to roasting pan; stir to loosen browned bits. Transfer pan juices to Dutch oven. Add seasonings and enough cold water just to cover. Slowly bring to a boil, about 30 minutes. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 hours, skimming foam. If necessary, add water during first 2 hours to keep ingredients covered. , Remove beef bones; cool. If desired, remove meat and discard bones; save meat for another use. Strain broth through a cheesecloth-lined colander, discarding vegetables and seasonings. If using immediately, skim fat. Or refrigerate 8 hours or overnight; remove fat from surface., Broth can be covered and refrigerated up to 3 days or frozen 4-6 months.

BEEF BONE BROTH

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Place beef bones on the prepared baking sheet.
• Roast bones in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, turning over at the halfway point.
• Carefully place bones into a large stockpot and pour in any juices that have collected on the baking sheet. Add celery, onion, leek, and garlic to the stockpot, and add just enough water to completely cover the bones. Stir in bay leaves, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
• Bring broth to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to a very low simmer and cover, venting the lid a bit. Simmer for 12 hours, occasionally skimming off any foam and "gunk" that rises to the top. Add additional water whenever bones and vegetables are no longer covered.
• Remove the pot from the heat and cool broth to room temperature. Strain broth with a fine-mesh strainer into a clean pot. Discard bones and vegetables.

BASIC BEEF STOCK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Trim root end off onion. Slice or quarter the onion, peel and all. Scrub carrots and chop into 1-inch chunks. In a large shallow roasting pan, place soup bones, onion, and carrots. Bake, uncovered, about 30 minutes or until the bones are well browned, turning occasionally.
• Drain off fat. Place the browned bones, onion, and carrots in a large soup pot or Dutch oven. Pour 1/2 cup water into the roasting pan and rinse. Pour this liquid into soup pot.
• Scrub the potato and chop it into chunks, peel and all. Chop the celery stalks into thirds. Add celery, tomato, parsnip, potato, peppercorns, parsley (including stems), bay leaf, salt, thyme, and garlic to the pot. Pour in the 12 cups of water.
• Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 5 hours. Strain stock. Discard meat, vegetables, and seasonings.
• To clarify stock for clear soup: In order to remove solid flecks that are too small to be strained out with cheesecloth, combine 1/4 cup cold water, 1 egg white, and 1 crushed eggshell. Add to strained stock. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, and let stand 5 minutes. Strain again through a sieve lined with cheesecloth.

BASIC BEEF BROTH

Steps:

• Roast the bones at 400 degrees F.
• until a dark golden brown.
• Drain off any excess oil, and combine all the rest of the ingredients in a large stock pot.
• Cover bones with water and simmer on low for about 3 hours.
• Drain the broth from the other ingredients, and strain the broth through cheesecloth.
• Use as desired.

BASIC ANY SOUP OR STEW BROTH

Steps:

• Chop first 3 ingredients the same size, approximately. Sautee with just a bit of salt and pepper over med/low with a bit of butter or oil until lightly browned or caramelized.
• Add bay leaf, red pepper or cayenne to taste and any other herbs and spices to fit your flavor profile. In my base I add fresh rosemary and thyme, other herbs and spices lend themselves to different cuisines. Mexican; oregano, cumin and maybe some jalapeno. Italian; more rosemary, oregano, marjoram. some fresh parmesan. Asian; a touch of fish sauce, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and some scallions. Just add flavor, whatever works with your main ingredient.
• Deglaze the pan with white wine, simmer for about 3 minutes, Pour in the broth, any broth, simmer for 10 minutes or so, then add your goodies. Simmer that for a while, thicken broth if you like, make your soup or stew the way you like. Finish in the crock pot, freeze for an anytime soup or stew. Blend it smooth and add bouillon and thicken for a gravy.
• Salt and pepper at the end to taste. If you add too much salt early in the process, as the broth reduces it may become too salty. If this happens, cut a fist size potato in quarters and simmer in the broth until it absorbs the salt, discard potato.
• To deepen the flavor of the broth, add some powdered (whack em into pieces in the food processor) dried mushrooms, not to add mushroom flavor, but to add heartiness to the broth.