If you’ve never made your own chicken broth before… prepare to have your mind blown. This is the second recipe in our Rotisserie Chicken Series. Once you learn how easy it is to make homemade rotisserie chicken broth in your crock pot, you may never go back to store-bought again. It’s cozy, customizable, zero-waste, and perfect for anyone who wants to stretch a single rotisserie chicken into multiple meals.

And here’s the best part: If you have a crock pot, you can make this. Truly.

One of our favorite weeknight shortcuts is grabbing a rotisserie chicken from The Fresh Market. (Hot tip: on Sundaysthey sell a full chicken dinner (they do everyday, but on Sundays it’s on sale) rotisserie chicken, two sides, AND cornbread, which easily becomes a simple meal or two all on its own.) Once we’ve enjoyed the dinner, the leftover chicken bones become the base for the most flavorful broth you’ll ever make.

Homemade broth is one of those things that feels special, but requires almost no effort. You literally throw everything into the slow cooker, fill it with water, and walk away. Eight hours later (or however long, honestly), your house smells amazing and you have liquid gold ready for soups, stews, casseroles, pan sauces!

And yes… you can absolutely leave the onion skins and garlic skins on. We do! We just trim off the roots if they’re too dirty (we usually buy ours straight from a local farm).