Best Instant Pot Bone Broth (Homemade Pressure Cooker Bone Broth)

Let me show you how I make the best instant pot broth. This nutritious and tasty bone broth in a pressure cooker is very easy and quick to make.

With a few ingredients that you mostly have at home, you can make the best bone broth in a pressure cooker. This homemade pressure cooker broth is nutritious and nourishing.

What are the Uses of Pressure-Cooked Homemade Bone Broth?

The instant pot bone broth has many uses, and they include:

• Used as a base for soup recipes.
• Used in place of water when you are preparing pasta or cooking rice.
• Used as moisture when preparing mashed potatoes.
• Used for cooking vegetables.

One good thing about all of these is that the bone broth adds more nutrients and flavor to whatever you are cooking.

Why you should consider making Bone Broth

What is bone broth? A bone broth is a homemade stock that includes bone and is cooked for a long time, which makes the connective tissues and tendons dissolve, and in turn, soften the bones, and makes them fall apart.

Bone broth has a high concentration of nutrients and collagen – this is so because the bones take a lot of time to cook, and this help dissolve more of the collagen and nutrients from the bone into the broth.

The bone broth can be the bones of beef, chicken, turkey, pork, or whatever meat you are cooking. While also cooking, vegetables like onions and carrots, as well as herbs, garlic, and seasoning can be added for flavor.

Another reason you should consider making a bone broth is the TASTE. If you have tasted bone broth before, then you can attest to the fact that it tastes a lot better than regular broth or stock.

Many people use bone broths in place of stocks when making soup. I do this from time to time too, and the soup always comes out fine. You should try this with your soup or stew some other time.

Making bone broth in an instant pot saves you over a dozen to two dozen hours than when you make it on a stovetop. In 3 hours, your bone broth is ready when made on an electric pressure cooker. This is why you should always consider using an electric pressure cooker.

You don’t want to joke with an instant bone broth – it is healthy, nourishing, and filled with collagen and minerals. The length and intensity of the cooking bring out the nutrients and gelatin in the bones.

Ingredients for Making Bone Broth in the Instant Pot

Note: For this recipe, I used chicken bones. However, you can also make use of beef, turkey, and pork bones. Let’s take a look at the ingredients I used in making this chicken bone broth.

• Bones from chicken – I used about 3-4 lb chicken. Having used my chicken skin for other recipes, I use the bone for this broth recipe.
• Vegetables – these are important. You should consider adding onion, garlic, parsnip, carrots, and celery. They add nutrients to your recipe.
• Apple cider vinegar – this ingredient helps in extracting nutrients from the bones.
• Seasoning – bay leaf, salts, and peppercorn are important ingredients to use for this recipe.
• Fresh herbs – consider adding thyme, sage, rosemary, and parsley to the recipe.

• Bones from 1 whole chicken
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• Water
• 1 large onion
• 6 garlic cloves
• 1 medium parsnip (scrub and cut into large chunks)
• 3 medium-sized carrots (scrub and cut into half)
• 3 celery ribs
• 1 bay leaf
• Salt to your desired taste
• 8 peppercorns
• Fresh herbs (thyme, sage, rosemary, and parsley)

Instructions

• Put bones, vegetables, herbs, peppercorns, and vinegar into the instant pot.
• Fill the pot with enough water to cover the contents of the pot.
• Wipe the rim dry with a kitchen towel.
• Lock the instant pot lid. Set the valve to SEALING.
• Select MANUAL or HIGH PRESSURE and set the cooking time to 120 minutes.
• If you want a gelatinous bone broth, then you should cook for another 120 minutes – this time, on LOW PRESSURE.
• Allow pressure to naturally release for about 20 minutes.
• Before unlocking the lid, manually release any remaining pressure using the valve.
• Before you strain the bone broth with a mesh-lined strainer, you should allow it to cool off.
• Having strained with a mesh-lined strainer, store in jars.
• Add salt to your taste.

Note

Before cooking on low pressure for a gelatinous bone broth, you should consider adding more water to avoid the pot contents from getting burnt. Before doing this, however, you need to release the pressure.

Why you should Cook Bone Broth in an Instant Pot

As I have mentioned earlier, cooking bone broth on a stovetop will take between 12 – 24 hours to achieve, but with an instant pot, you can do this between 3 -4 hours. Great, right?

Another benefit of pressure cooking your bone broth is that you conserve as much liquid as possible, as the bone broth avoids evaporation, which can reduce the quantity of your liquid.

Benefits of this Bone Broth Recipe

Here are some amazing benefits of bone broths, and this should convince you in making one for yourself.

• With this bone broth recipe, you don’t get a bone broth that gels.
• This bone broth recipe is filled with a lot of vitamins, minerals, gelatin, and collagen.
• You can use this bone broth recipe when making other recipes.
• You may decide to sip this bone broth recipe as a beverage.
• This bone broth recipe may help boost immunity and fight against inflammation.
• The healing properties of this bone broth recipe can help with your healing process when ill.

How to Store Pressure Cooker Bone Broth

Storing a pressure-cooked bone broth is not as difficult as you might think. They can be stored in a refrigerator or a freezer.

Storing Instant Pot Bone Broth in a Refrigerator

• Pour inside mason jars or any sealed container, and keep inside your refrigerator.
• It can last up to 5 days in there.

Storing Bone Broth in a Freezer

• Pour inside ice cube trays or silicone muffin cups, and put in the freezer.
• The moment the broth is frozen, remove it from the tray and store the block in a zip-lock bag or any airtight container that can be kept in the freezer. Place back in the freezer.
• Whenever you want to use your bone broth, just remove the amount of broth you want to use and reheat it on the stove or in a microwave. You can as well put the frozen broth in the soup directly to dissolve.