A quick how to on cooking an entire raw chicken in water in a pot.

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Ingredients

• 1 raw whole chicken plus giblets
• Water to cover it
  • Can also use a broth, but plain water is great
• 1 onion, quartered
• A few garlic, crushed but whole
• Bundle of herbs, like cilantro and mint and parsley, or whatever ya like

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Directions

Place everything in a big pot and fill it with water til it covers it all. It’s okay if the chicken sticks out a little. Bring it all to a boil for a bit, then let simmer - the water should continue to be active throughout the cooking process.

Depending on the size of the chicken, it will take around an hour to hour and a half to two. Chicken should be cooked to at the very least 165F degrees, so the best way to check is to have a thermometer in hand and sticking it in the densest part of the chicken, like a thigh. It should easily clear and read higher than 165F, not be on the precipice.

Once cooked through, remove the chicken and extras, strain the broth - and you now have chicken broth, which you can use for different dishes! - and do what you will with the chicken meat like, for example, shredding it and saving it for a different dish, like pozole. You can also eat and save the giblets, like the liver and chicken neck. Once the meat is removed, you can also make a bone broth with the leftover bones, but that’s for a different how-to..

That’s it!!