I'm making Chicken Stock with the leftover carcass from my Sunday night dinner. Anyone have a favorite method and suggested seasonings to follow?
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I'm making Chicken Stock with the leftover carcass from my Sunday night dinner. Anyone have a favorite method and suggested seasonings to follow?
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As the carcass is presumably already roasted and will render a brown stock, the roasted veggies will compliment the flavor and add to it better than raw veggies. The addition of tomato paste roasted with the veggies will add the correct amount of necessary acidity as well as complexity of flavor and deep color. It might be a less harsh choice than lemon, depending on what you are going for.
Personally, if you are truly making stock and not broth/soup, I wouldn't add seasoning (i.e., salt) to the mix at all. Add it later when you use the stock for its final purpose. At that point, I would also maybe use a bit of lemon juice or a very small amount of cider vinegar to balance it out if the tomato paste wasn't enough.