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If you are a regular reader of A Family Feast, you already know that delicious soups are on the menu at our house quite a bit! Today we’re sharing our recipe for a delicious Asian Chicken Stock.
This Asian chicken stock is a variation of our basic chicken stock recipe. It is flavorful with hints of ginger, scallions and cilantro, but it’s not a hearty and robust stock by any means. Instead, this stock is meant to be a flavor profile in Asian soups and other dishes where the other ingredients take center stage.
This stock can be mixed with soy sauce, fish sauce, chili paste or other Asian ingredients – it’s delicious and versatile — and it’s perfect for our Asian Noodle Soup as well!
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Asian Chicken Stock
Ingredients
- 3 pounds of chicken bones, or small hens uncooked
- 5 pound chicken fryer
- 6 chicken feet, or 6 chicken necks, or one turkey wing
- 6 chicken wings
- Enough hot tap water to cover
- 2 1/2 ounce peeled and sliced ginger
- 1 full bunch of scallions
- 1/4 onion peeled (about three ounces)
- 2 stalks celery cleaned and broken in half
- 1/2 bunch cilantro
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 6 black peppercorns
- 1 1/2 gallons cold water
Instructions
- In a large stock pot, place chicken bones or hens, fryer, feet or necks or turkey wing and chicken wings. Fill with just enough hot water to cover. Quickly boil and simmer for five minutes. Strain and discard the water – this will remove most of the impurities from the stock.
- Wash the stock pot and return chicken products back to pot.
- Place all other ingredients in with the chicken and fill with 1 ½ gallons of cold water.
- Slowly bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 4 hours, skimming occasionally.
- Once the stock has simmered and reduced, strain and reserve stock for Asian recipes.
- Stock may be frozen. (We use zip lock bags to freeze the stock and thaw out the stock as needed).
- Pick the meat from the whole fryer and save for soup or other dishes. Discard all other solids.
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Very interested in trying this Asian chicken stock. but -just wondering once the fryer chicken has been cooked for 4 hours to make the stock, I notice that you recommend using the meat from the chicken for other dishes. But I’m wondering is the chicken meat still flavorful enough to use for other dishes (in soup or whatever)? Is it too dry or is it still good meat?
Hi Richard – Great question and you’re right – after the 4 hours, the chicken may not be the most flavorful. In some of our other (more recent) recipes, Jack suggests taking the meatier bones out after about an hour of simmering and picking the meat off the bones – then adding the bones back to the stock for the rest of the cooking time. That way, if you plan to use the meat in other recipes, it isn’t as cooked. Hope that helps!