Layer all ingredients into pint jars then fill with hot chicken stock leaving 1 to 1 ¼ inch of head space. Best Chicken Noodle Soup.
How to Can Homemade Chicken Soup.
Pressure canning chicken soup. Pressure Canning Makes about 8 16 oz pints Hot steaming bowl of chicken soup is sure to cure the winter blahs. Customize your homemade chicken soup with egg noodles broken bits of vermicelli or rice while heating just before serving. Prepare weighted gauge pressure canner jars and lids according to manufacturers instructions.
In a large stainless steel saucepan combine chicken stock chicken celery carrots onions bay leaves and dried basil. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and boil gently for 30 minutes.
Leave 1-inch headspace. Place your lids on and process according to pressure canning instructions. How to Can Homemade Chicken Soup.
Pints 1 hour and 15 minutes. Quarts 1 hour 30 minutes. You might notice a difference in processing times compared to my canning soup page here.
Heat jars and lids in simmering water until ready for use. In large pot add all ingredients except chicken. Bring to a boil cover and simmer 3 minutes.
Pressure canning homemade soup is a great way to fill your panty with easy to heat and eat meals with no added chemicals preservatives or sodium found in commercially processed cans. You control the quality of the ingredients and can even customize the vegetables and seasoning to your liking. Pre-cook chicken and the broth.
Check your canner valves for safety make sure you have proper canning tools. Put the herbs basil parsley bay leaf and fennel if desired into the bottom of every empty jar. Sprinkle salt and pepper now or wait until re-heating for serving.
For vegetable soup fill the jars half full of solids add broth allowing 1-inch headspace and process in a pressure canner. There needs to be space for the hot liquid to circulate between the food particles. Pieces of cooked beef or chicken can be added to the vegetables to make a vegetable meat soup.
Recommended Processing Times for Pressure Canning Soup When youre canning soup process pints for 60 minutes and quarts for 75 minutes. The exception to this is you need to process pints and quarts containing seafood for 100 minutes. You might need to adjust your processing based on your altitude.
Vegetable soups in a broth base may be safely canned using the process time for the ingredients that takes the longest process time for the individual ingredients in the soup. Most soups will take 60 to 90 minutes to process in a pressure canner depending upon size pints or quarts and ingredients. Process the brothvegetablechicken mixture in a pressure canner at 15 PSI for 75 minutes if youre doing pints and 90 minutes for quarts.
Allow your jars to sit undisturbed for at least 12 hours and be sure to listen for the lids to ping. If one did not seal refrigerate and eat immediately. Best Chicken Noodle Soup.
With just onions garlic broth beans tomatoes and herbs this is one of the easiest soup recipes for canning developed by our Test Kitchen. Stick to dried beans soaked and partially cooked in soup recipes for pressure canning. Fully cooked commercial canned beans get ubermushy once recanned in soup.
I spent the whole of my Saturday canning chicken soup from scratch. I had a look in my chest freezer and saw that I still had a bunch of chicken. Fill the pressure canner with 5cm 2 inches of water.
Place pressure canner onto heat and bring water to a boil. Warm up the lids by placing into a heat-proof bowl of boiling water not over heat and wait 5-10 minutes while you fill the jars with hot soup. Layer all ingredients into pint jars then fill with hot chicken stock leaving 1 to 1 ¼ inch of head space.
Add lids and rings then place in pressure canner and process for 75 minutes on 10lbs of pressure. Chicken and Rice Soup Quart Jars 12 cup chicken cooked and diced. I pressure canned some chicken and rice soup.
It turned out great. I read alot about not using rice in pressure canning but I put just a tablespoon in and. First when pressure canning chicken meats or any low acid food the processing temperature must be 240 degrees-F to destroy bacterial spores that emit toxins.
Boiling water is only 212 degrees-F. However the temperature in a pressure canner will reach 240 degrees at 11 psi dial gauge.