French Onion Soup
The Best Kosher Broth Bases
Kosher foods are foods, which conform to the Jewish religion. This can apply to the type of food itself or to the slaughter method. If you are interested in kosher broth bases, there are various recipes for these. Chicken is especially popular in Jewish recipes and kosher chicken broth is very tasty. It makes a really flavorful base for French onion soup.
You will need a soup chicken for the following kosher broth recipe. Soup chickens are also called boiling fowls or boiling chickens. These are a lot tougher than roasters but the flavor is phenomenal. If you use a kosher chicken, which is salted during the koshering process, you might not need to add extra salt. Taste the chicken broth at the end to see whether or not more salt is required.
If you want to use the chicken from the broth in another recipe, you can pull it off the bones after about forty-five minutes of cooking time, and then return the bones to the pot. Most of the flavor actually comes from the chicken bones. If you want to make a stronger tasting broth, use five pounds of bones and do not bother with the chicken. This is one of the most delicious kosher broth bases you can make.
Easy Kosher Chicken Broth Recipe
Ingredients -
4 lbs soup chicken
2 lbs chicken bones
1 parsnip, chopped
2 onions, halved
3 carrots, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
18 cups cold water
Kosher salt
Preparation:
Put the chicken, chicken bones and water in a soup pot and bring it to a boil over a high heat.
Turn the heat down to medium low and skim off any foamy scum floating on top as it cooks.
This process might take up to an hour.
Add the vegetables and simmer the broth for about an hour and a half, with the pot loosely covered.
This allows some steam to escape and intensifies the soup flavor.
Sieve the kosher broth through cheesecloth.
(Makes 8 Cups)
Kosher Food and Jewish Food
Not all-Jewish food is kosher food because kosher refers to the preparation and slaughter method, as well as the ingredients. Kosher food must meet Jewish dietary laws. Foods like kugel, latke, kreplach, kishka and cholent are typically Jewish, but if they are not prepared in the kosher way, they cannot be called kosher. Kosher broth bases must therefore be prepared in the correct way, as well as with the right ingredients. There are lots of different kosher foods you can make or buy and kosher broth bases are tasty whether you are Jewish or not.
Which Foods are Kosher?
Most shellfish is not kosher and nor are rabbits, pigs, some fish and various birds. Meat cannot be served alongside fish or milk, and poultry and meat must be slaughtered under "shechita" guidelines, which means it, must be slaughtered painlessly by a fully trained kosher butcher. Kosher kitchens must use their own pots, pans, dishes, and utensils. If you are making recipes for kosher broth bases, you will need to use kosher meat or poultry, which you can buy from a kosher butcher or the kosher department of a grocery store.