Bone Deep Broth: Healing Recipes with Bone Broth

by Lya Mojica, Taylor Chen

Bone broth is the perfect healing dish—true dietary medicine, especially when properly prepared with locally sourced, grass-fed animals. Plus, it's economical, sustainable, and tasty, which is why so many cultures around the world, from Mexico to Vietnam, depend on it. Lya Mojica and Taylor Chen, who run the company Bone Deep & Harmony, reveal the benefits and simple basics of creating this fabulous meal, and provide recipes for using it in soups, sauces, and stews. Make Borscht, Pozole, Pho, Mole de Olla (vegetables in spicy tomato and chicken broth), Lamb Tagine with Green Olives and Preserved Lemon, and even baby food. Being nutritious has never been as delicious!

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Cooking, Health

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 2016

Reviews

[Mischenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bone Deep Broth is a great book for beginners and enthusiasts. It contains the basics, and also many recipes. Great one to keep in the kitchen. I recommend it to everyone, but especially those that seek true healing of the body.

[Shaina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a hippie and made beef bone broth for the first time this weekend. It turned out perfectly, and I am unreasonably pleased with myself.

[Shawna Williamson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great recipes!

[Sandra Noel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been fighting some health issues for some time, and in studying and researching natural ways to help I discovered bone broth. I wanted to give it a try and this book came along at the perfect time. I sourced some lovely beef bones and got started.

When I first started looking at the book I was taken aback at the amount of bones called for. I was afraid I would have trouble getting that amount together easily, but I was able to source all the bones I needed quickly. I left out the ginger as it and I do not get along, and added some carrots and celery along with the other ingredients and started cooking. Twenty hours later (Yes, you read that right. It simmered on low over night.) I had a lovely bone broth. After it cooled down it went in the fridge for a couple of hours. That solidified the fat so that it was easily removed (You can save the fat and make tallow for candles/soap, as that is covered later in the book.) and I was left with a beautiful bone broth. I felt it was under salted, but that's easily corrected.

There are recipes included in the book to use your bone broth. I've found that it works great to make a simple couscous with just some herbs added. I made an amazing beef stew the other night, and used my bone broth instead of a store bought stock. Yum! Next I'm on to chicken!

I received a copy of this book from Sterling Publishing for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Elizabeth (Liz) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book because I wanted new ideas about bone broth. This was something my grandma would feed us much during my childhood and I got away from it after I got married. I was a young bride, and my now ex-husband (having been raised in Cuban-American ways) couldn't fathom the idea of consuming bone broth, in fact he found the idea repulsive. I remember clearly getting the message I was doing something socially backwards and disgusting, so I stopped. I also stopped eating organ meats for the same reason.

As I read this book, over a decade later I realize the wisdom of my grandmother's cooking. I understand the the reason why I developed early certain defenses others around me lack. Reading this book not only assured me & reconnected me to long tradition of preventative & holistic healing foods but allowed me to reconnect to the loving wisdom of my grandmother.
Today, what my ex-husband conveyed to me and I believed was backwards practice is "trendy," as most age old wisdom seems to be once science catches up to it.

I realize there is regret in my having been away from my grandma's cooking for so long. It seems to be everything she cooked was not just infused with love but wisdom. I shake my head at how I allowed my need to fit in to a new culture to change my own cultural cooking traditions... but I am thankful I get the chance to go back to those practices, this time not just because of the flavor and the warmth it brings to my soul but with the science behind it backing up "grandma's cooking" is the best way to feed & fuel my body.

Thank you so much for writing the book, it felt like a warm hug reading and re-learning those things my grandma knew instinctively

[Cynthia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have been making homemade broths for a long time. I found this interesting as It is written from a Chinese medicine perspective and makes claim for broth as a healing food for digestive issues. There are are a nice range of recipes for everything from Mexican mole to Bolognese to simple broths. The authors run a business supplying bone broth to Chinese medicine clients so have an informed understanding of that way of healing.

Obviously, as these broths are based on bones, vegans and vegetarians might find this of less use. I have also made many vegan and vegetarian broths and they are very easy to do.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delicious bone broth recipes. The lamb broth was great. The listing of Optional Additions is so informative. Plus the recipes for adding bone broth to your cooking are super.

[Mrs Reddy Katzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Divine Book - Have Made and stored the Broth and i am now starting the recipe's ... cant wait to try them

[Melanie CJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basic recipes were great. Unfortunately my dad who I’m making soup for has no interest in any of the recipes other than the first few that tell you how to make the various base broths.

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book looks like a great reference for making basic bone broths of various kinds, and also includes many recipes that use the broth as an ingredient.