Beef Stock Recipe

Beef stock recipe is one of the best places to begin when making a great soup. This is a good home made beef stock that you will be using a lot of in the coming months. You will find a much richer and deeper flavor is created when you use this special recipe.

It will take a small amount of time to prepare, but when it comes to making a great pot of soup, it is well worth the effort. You can keep the resulting stock from this recipe in the fridge for up to 4 days or freeze it for up to 3 months.

This beef stock recipe begins with beef bones, but you can also create it using left over roast if you first rinse the seasonings off. As you can see from the list of ingredients, you will be using onions with the skin on that will impart a magical flavor to your stock carrots and celery as well as the parsley and bay leaves also give their own unique flavorings to this incredible beef stock.

Once you have this stock ready to go you can create your favorite beef flavored soup or stew for your family.

4 lb beef bones (shin, leg, neck)

2 onions (unpeeled, quartered)

1 carrots (roughly chopped)

1 celery staks (roughly chopped)

2 tomatoes (coarsely chopped)

16 cups cold water

a hand full parsley stalks

2 bay leaves

10 black pepper corns (lightly crushed)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 450f roast bones turning occasionally for 30 minutes until they start browning.

2. Add onions, carrots, celery, and tomatoes and baste with fat in the pan. roast for 20 to 30 minutes until bones are well browned. Stir and baste occasionally.

3. transfer all bones and vegetables to stock pot. Add a little water to the roasting pan bring to boil scrape up any brown bits and add to stock pot.

4. Add remaining water to the pot and bring to boil skimming frequently. Add parsley, bay leaves, and peppercorns.

5. Simmer for 4-6 hours make sure bones and vegetables are covered with water add a little water if needed.

6. Strain stock through colander then skim as much fat as possible. Cool stock in refrigerator. once cooled the fat will rise to top to be removed.

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