Name: Turkey Tail + Chicken Bone Broth (Long Simmer)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 240 min
Total time: 250 min
Yield: Makes about 8 cups
Cuisine: Gourmet mushroom
Ingredients: 1 leftover roast chicken carcass (or 2 lb chicken bones); 1 oz dried Turkey Tail, broken into small pieces (about 1 cup loose); 1 large onion, halved (skin on); 2 carrots, roughly chopped; 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped; 1 head garlic, halved crosswise; 3 bay leaves; 1 Tbsp whole black peppercorns; 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar; 12 cups cold filtered water; 1 Tbsp kosher salt (to taste, at the end)

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Turkey Tail + Chicken Bone Broth (Long Simmer)

Dried Turkey Tail simmered for hours with a roast chicken carcass — yields a deeply mineral, golden broth. Sip on its own, or use as the base for any soup that wants soul.

10min Prep

240min Cook

250min Total

Makes about 8 cups Yield

Easy Difficulty

Ingredients

Vegan alternative

Built on chicken bones. For a vegan version that still extracts turkey-tail beta-glucans, make the Turkey Tail Tincture, or simmer turkey tail in a kombu-shiitake broth as a plant-based daily sip.

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Steps

Place the chicken carcass + bones in a large stockpot. Add the Turkey Tail pieces, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorns, and vinegar.

Cover with cold water. Bring slowly to a bare simmer over medium-low — should take about 30 minutes. Don't let it boil.

Once gently simmering, skim any foam from the surface. Cover partially.

Simmer 4 hours, checking occasionally. Add hot water if levels drop below the solids.

Strain through a fine sieve into a clean pot or bowl. Press the solids gently to extract liquid.

Season with kosher salt to taste — start with 1 tsp and adjust.

Cool, refrigerate (lasts 5 days) or freeze in 2-cup portions (lasts 3 months).

Drink hot in a mug as a daily tonic, or use as soup base anywhere broth is called for.

Turkey Tail + Chicken Bone Broth (Long Simmer)

Steps

Other ways to cook Turkey Tail

Turkey Tail Bone-Broth Booster

Turkey Tail Tincture (Alcohol Dual-Extraction Base)