Pressure Canning Chicken Legs with Forjars Canning Lids

Perfect timing for reminding me to get my old chicken outta the freezer. I always listen to your advice about canning. I've only been canning for 2 yrs. I've spent that time with you here, LEISA, and you've helped build my pantry skills. Five years ago, I would have never thought I'd have a pantry. Honestly, I didn't own a Ball jar! Thanks again for your guidance and encouragement that means so much to me. xo

Love this. I just scored six 10-lb bags of chicken hind quarters @ just $0.49/lb and will can them up. My DH and I eat canned chicken 2 - 3 times a week and prefer the dark meat. It fits with my heart-healthy keto diet, as I am diabetic and the only one left in my family - who all died from heart disease. Eating this way has not only greatly improved my health and I've kept my A1C in the low 5s for 3 years, but I've also lost and kept off 40 lbs!!! Thanks for all your vids.

I love the idea of having this product be for me and the dogs! If I've had room in the canner and been doing meat, sometimes I'll put the yukkier stuff in one quart and label it for the dogs: chicken skin, cartilage, etc. The next time I go into town chicken legs will be on my list. Thanks for all you do!!! I love all of the idea sharing here. :)

Four products if you count (and I do) the chicken fat (schmaltz). It's amazing to cook with and adds lots of flavor. I just keep a jar in the fridge instead of using toxic vegetable oils like canola or safflower. Olive oil is the exception. They don't use solvents to extract it.

Bone-in is shorter processing time because bone conducts heat better than the meat does so it heats up faster.

i don't know how i missed this video. Chicken legs are what i add to my dog's food, but not the bones. So, i get the legs in 5 lb bags on sale by the case from our butcher and boil them, canning the broth for myself and canning the now shredded chicken legs in quart jars with 1 cup of broth and the rest water. Pup never misses a meal. He has a bad heart condition, and it was always tuff to get him to eat. Not anymore. And hey, it's great for soups too.

I found large packages of chicken legs clearanced at Sam's the other day and thought of this video. So today I'm giving it a try. I was able to get 7 qt jars with 4 legs & 1 qt jar with 5 legs. I'm having to can in 2 batches but I can't wait for the results. Thanks for the idea. This is my second meat canning process. I'm almost comfortable with letting go of my fear of the pressure canner.

We pressure canned little Cornish hens whole. They turned out great and created the best broth! Never thought about doing a jar full of drumsticks.

In my quarts I usually do 2 legs and 2 thighs. Good broth and chicken for dumplings with lots of flavor. I get the leg quarters and cut them apart to can.

If you don't have a dog, you can also rinse off your pressure cooked bones and grind them. You now have bone meal for your garden. It annoys me that I only found this out a few weeks ago, and I have made a LOT of bone broth over the years. This will work for pork or beef bones as well, especially if you add a teaspoon or two of ACV to the cooking liquid. Full cycle, no waste.

I just finished canning chicken legs and thighs the other day. I'm ready to do some more. They will be good for dumplings and soup this winter.

Just added 20 lbs of leg quarters (Perdue .69 a lb) to my WM order since you gave me canning fever again!! I'm thinking if things get really bad, I can use this chicken with rice to feed my dogs, with dehydrated veg and fresh eggs to round it all out. I prep for them too!! Thanks Leisa. God bless. ~~Laura

I love this!! I cook chicken for meals, then make bone broth. This will save me sooo much time. Now to just pull up my big girl panties and dive in to pressure cooking without my mother screaming: move back it could blow! Thanks to binge watching all your videos and the Canuary videos, I'm starting to think it's not as scary as my mom made me think all those decades ago. Thank you so much for the step by step, simple instructions! ❤️

I use cooked chicken for my dog too she loves it dog food is junk too so I try to make some of mine so my little girl will be healthy!!! Thanks again!!

Hi I just got up the courage to start up with canning burger ( I purchased the 4 jars wide mouth lids thank-you) then I was discouraged by a farmers market person with horror stories jiggler pressure cooking. :( I am re watching your videos again for support. Really enjoyed the chicken stalk one as I drink that in AM. On the ( meat plan ) some veggies... helped my arthritis and trigger fingers. Also, the stalk would be so healing to add to someone's care package! Thank you so much. Gotta find that courage again.

"...legitimately, it's ugly." LOL! I have to agree with you on that. Wish I had some chicken legs in the freezer to do this with but we hardly ever buy them. But I could totally do this with thighs! Thanks, Leisa.

From what I remember the thicker the bone has to do with the canning time. Also the dark spots of stuff are actually the marrow from the inside of the bones and full of nutrients. Great video Liesa as usual.

I recommend everyone writing the cost of the meat on their lids after canning. I did this starting in 2020 I have chicken I'm opening up to this day from 2020 where I documented I bought that chicken for as low as .89/lb for thighs to .49/lb for leg quarters. Not seeing those prices ever again

I did mine raw pack no water. But this time I’m going to add water and I’ll love having the broth.when I canned mine in some pints I had to chop the bone tip off the legs. That reddish stuff is also bone marrow.

Anyone that doesn't have doggos but does have a garden, the ground up bone could be used as bone meal for plants that like that.