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We keep jars of soup base on hand for when we don't have stock or what we do have needs a boost.
But bouillon cubes and granules are mostly salt, little other flavor.
This is what I use: soup base that is stored in the fridge. I'll use the broth that comes in the resealable container for holiday cooking--extra stock in the stuffing or additional stock for gravy.
I don’t use boullion cubes. Read the ingredient list and decide if you want to put so much sodium and dextrose in your body.
I do use Whole Foods reduced sodium chicken broth. It adds a very slight flavor to a dish. There are some new products out now, calling themselves bone broths. But I haven’t tried them. They might add more flavor to a dish.
For robust chicken flavor, make your own broths using chicken carcasses, or whole chickens. I like to use a cooked carcass with three or four chicken wings. I keep some in the freezer for this purpose. My best results have happened using a slow cooker, but you can get a good product using a pressure cooker.
Directions for doing this abound on the web. It is not hard. Save bones from a chicken dinner and proceed. Or you can buy a chicken and make broth from it. Freeze for use later.
We buy the Kitchen Basics unsalted broth in waxed cardboard/paper boxes so no tinny taste. Looking at the ingredients, KB seems to be the best non-organic chicken broth we can find. We also buy their other broths, but I still have a problem with the beef broth. Every single one on the market has a funny aftertaste to me, so, if we are having something like French Onion soup where the beef broth is front and center, I suck it up and make my own, then freeze.
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100% agree. I use the KB STOCK almost exclusively. I keep some granules around but rarely touch them.
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