Simple & Succulent Canned Whole Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 whole stewing chicken
• 1 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 remove any giblets which may be in chicken and scrub well.
• 2 wash one, one or two-quart canning jar (depending on the size of the chicken).
• 3 add 1 tsp salt to jar.
• 4 pack raw, skin-on chicken into the jar. if it won't fit you may have to cut it up a bit. leave 1/2 to 1 inch head space.
• 5 put jar lids in hottest tap water.
• 6 clean the lip of the jar carefully to ensure a good seal and place lids and screw-tops on jar; finger tighten.
• 7 place in pressure canner filled with enough water (not hot) to come 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the jars.
• 8 process for 90 minutes after pressure has reached 15 lbs.
• 9 please note that it is not necessary to add any water to the jars- the chicken will make a delicious broth which will be gelled unless it is heated. do not de-bone chicken as the bones are neccessary to make a good broth.
• 10 * i often do chicken pieces in pint jars as i live alone. in which case i only add 1/2 tsp salt and reduce the processing to 75 minutes at 15 lbs pressure.