Simple Beef Broth Recipe
Beef Broth is a taste maker. Beef Broth is added into the soups and other recipes for enriching the taste. Beef Broth gets its taste from beef flavored with cloves and celery.
Ingredients
4 pounds cut up beef shanks and veal shanks (a mixture of these meats with flesh on the bones)
3 quarts water
2 carrots, cut in short lengths
2 medium-sized onions, each quartered
2 stalks celery
1 bay leaf
2 whole garlic cloves
2 whole cloves
4 to 6 whole black peppers
1/4 teaspoon thyme
Salt to taste when you use broth
Directions
Place shanks in a roasting pan and bake in a very hot oven (450°) for 20 to 25 minutes or until nicely browned.
Transfer meats to a large pan and add water; rinse roasting pan well with some of the water to remove any browned particles and add to the large pan.
Add to meat the carrots, onions, celery, bay leaf, garlic, cloves, peppers, and thyme.
Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 2 hours.
Pour broth through a wire strainer and reserve meat and vegetables for other uses only if their flavor is good.
Cool broth; then chill.
To store in the refrigerator (no longer than 4 days), leave the fat layer on the surface until you are ready to use the broth; then lift the fat off and discard.
To freeze, remove the congealed fat and transfer broth to freezer containers, allowing expansion room at the top of each container.
Transfer meats to a large pan and add water; rinse roasting pan well with some of the water to remove any browned particles and add to the large pan.
Add to meat the carrots, onions, celery, bay leaf, garlic, cloves, peppers, and thyme.
Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 2 hours.
Pour broth through a wire strainer and reserve meat and vegetables for other uses only if their flavor is good.
Cool broth; then chill.
To store in the refrigerator (no longer than 4 days), leave the fat layer on the surface until you are ready to use the broth; then lift the fat off and discard.
To freeze, remove the congealed fat and transfer broth to freezer containers, allowing expansion room at the top of each container.
