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Enhance the flavor and nutrition of your soups and broths with our chicken backs. These bones are perfect for making a flavorful and nutrient-rich broth ideal for broths, soups and stews.
To create a delicious and healthy broth at home, put your chicken soup bones into a large pot with vegetables like celery or carrot and aromatic herbs like parsley or thyme. Add water to the top and let it simmer for about 20 hours. The result will be a rich and flavorful broth that you can use in soups or drink on its own and enjoy all of its nutrients and health benefits.
At Seven Sons, we take pride in our ethical pasture-raised poultry program and hold ourselves to high standards of regenerative and sustainable agriculture.
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Seven Sons ensures all their products adhere to strict protocols to provide our customers with products that are environmentally conscious, healthy, and humanely raised.
At Seven Sons, we understand that consumers today are more concerned than ever about the use of antibiotics, harmful additives, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production.
We believe that the responsible use of antibiotics is important for both animal welfare and public health. We prioritize raising our animals in a stress-free environment, using animal husbandry practices that promote health and hardiness.
We take pride in offering high-quality, ethically-raised meat that is not only delicious and nutritious but also environmentally sustainable.
At Seven Sons, we believe in ensuring our customers get only the best quality products for their health.
That’s why we don’t use any animal by-products in our non-ruminant animal feed for our pasture-raised pigs and ethically-produced chickens.
Additionally, our ruminant animals do not receive animal by-products as they get all the nutrition they need from grazing and foraging on regenerative pastures.
Our commitment to providing meat that is both healthy and ethically raised ensures that our customers can enjoy high-quality meat while also supporting the environment and animal welfare.
When you choose Seven Sons, you can be confident that you’re making a positive impact on the world through your food choices.
At Seven Sons, we are committed to integrating regenerative agriculture practices that not only produce high-quality products but also improve the health of our soil, animals, and the environment.
Our regeneratively raised ruminant animals are strategically moved across open pastures, where they graze on nutrient-rich grasses. This grazing process helps to build the animals health and resilience while enhancing the carbon sequestering of the soil – helping to combat environmental degradation. As the weather and seasons allow our chickens and pigs rotate across the same pastures as our cattle and sheep for additional diversity and regenerative impact. By using regenerative agriculture techniques, we can prevent the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides on our pastures, which can be harmful to the environment. Instead, we can rely on natural systems to support the health of our animals and the land they graze on. Choosing regeneratively raised meat from Seven Sons means youre also supporting sustainable farming practices prioritizing the health of our animals and the planet.
At Seven Sons, we treat animals with respect and care. Thats why all of our animals are humanely raised in a low-stress environment, with plenty of extra room to move and express their natural instincts.
We take pride in the fact that our animals are treated with the utmost care and attention. From open pastures to low-stress handling and humane harvesting, we’re committed to ethical farming practices. We only partner with family-owned abattoirs with humane, transparent operations.
Instead, we raise our animals naturally, with wholesome nutrition, resulting in meat that’s better for your health and well-being. Delivery
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You can also use the chicken backs to make the broth for Chicken Pho (Phở Ga). Chicken backs are a popular staple in Jamaica, so they find themselves into a variety of dishes including this Jamaican curry and can be substituted into the classic Jamaican dish, Brown Stew. Even the humble chicken back can shine!
Instead, we raise our animals naturally, with wholesome nutrition, resulting in meat that’s better for your health and well-being. Delivery
We take pride in offering high-quality, ethically-raised meat that is not only delicious and nutritious but also environmentally sustainable.
Seven Sons ensures all their products adhere to strict protocols to provide our customers with products that are environmentally conscious, healthy, and humanely raised.
To create a delicious and healthy broth at home, put your chicken soup bones into a large pot with vegetables like celery or carrot and aromatic herbs like parsley or thyme. Add water to the top and let it simmer for about 20 hours. The result will be a rich and flavorful broth that you can use in soups or drink on its own and enjoy all of its nutrients and health benefits.
Our regeneratively raised ruminant animals are strategically moved across open pastures, where they graze on nutrient-rich grasses. This grazing process helps to build the animals health and resilience while enhancing the carbon sequestering of the soil – helping to combat environmental degradation. As the weather and seasons allow our chickens and pigs rotate across the same pastures as our cattle and sheep for additional diversity and regenerative impact. By using regenerative agriculture techniques, we can prevent the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides on our pastures, which can be harmful to the environment. Instead, we can rely on natural systems to support the health of our animals and the land they graze on. Choosing regeneratively raised meat from Seven Sons means youre also supporting sustainable farming practices prioritizing the health of our animals and the planet.
When the time came, I poured the broth through a colander into a large metal bowl (careful—it’s HOT!). I got about 4 quarts of broth which was not terribly golden because I had neither used vegetables nor roasted the backs, which are nice touches but not necessary. I usually use broth in things like rice or as a soup base to which I will add veggies anyway, so I don’t worry about adding the flavor during the broth-making process. It comes later. I was pretty happy with the yield. The leftover meat is great for tacos, casseroles, BBQ sandwiches, or even to throw into soup that you make with all that broth.
In this case, I’d say the chicken backs are wonderful if your primary goal is to get loads of broth plus a little meat if you don’t mind the work. If you want the golden chicken broth color right off the bat, you’ll need to add bouquet to this, such as herbs, carrots, celery, and onion. I usually opt to wait to add the veggies and use them as part of the meal for frugality’s sake, but I frequently add scraps that I have saved in the freezer, such as potato peels, carrot tops, celery leaves, onion roots, etc, in order to improve the flavor, and again, make something out of nothing that is extremely nutritious.
I (Jerica) love making huge batches of broth as opposed to small ones, since it is a time-intensive process, and adding more bones and water simply increases the yield, but not really the work. In this case, I decided to make about a half batch in my 16-quart pot just so I could document what I did easily. I used 3 bags of chicken backs, which have 3 carcasses each, so 9 total. It was about 13 lb of chicken backs, and would have cost me roughly $35 if I had bought them from myself at farmers’ market.
*The cooking time for meat-on cuts is important. If you cook it more than an hour, the bones will begin to fall apart and the meat will turn tough and stringy. It is best to pick off the meat after an hour of simmering, then return the bones to the pot to continue simmering.
So from chicken backs you get two things: broth AND meat, which is perfect for making chicken tacos. Check out Jerica’s real lard-made flour tortilla recipe here.
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FAQ
What is the healthiest part of the chicken to eat?
Are chicken backs high in fat?
Are chicken backs good for bone broth?
What parts of the chicken are edible?
Are chicken backs good eating?
Chicken backs are good eating if you have the right chicken backbone recipe. Chicken backs have a high bone to meat ratio, meaning they’re mostly bone, without a lot of meat. That said, some chicken backs you buy may be meatier than others. Good chicken backbone recipes will take advantage of both the meat and bone in chicken backs.
What are the benefits of eating baked chicken?
Roast chicken provides a good amount of protein with lower amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol, which contains more red meat. In addition, chicken meat contains large amounts of niacin and phosphorus, as well as small amounts of other minerals and also vitamin B-12, which is part of the beneficial vitamin B complex.
Are chicken backs good for stock?
In this, they are really no different from chicken wings, which also have no meat on them, but which fly off the menu because people buy them for the tasty coatings. Cooks elsewhere tend just to use Chicken Backs to make stock from. They are good for stock because they have a lot of bones with flavourful marrow inside them.
What are chicken backs used for?
Our chicken backs are fairly meaty and are typically used to make broth and to harvest the remaining meat. 2013 is the first year we have been able to offer this cut, and we are excited to share the results with you. 9 Chicken Backs in a 16-quart stock pot, ready for cooking!