Chicken livers - how do you cook them??
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Comments (3)I would fry the chicken in a little olive oil, remove the chicken, add the marinade to the pan and simmer to thicken....add back the chicken to re-warm ands erve. Sounds good! Linda C...See MoreChicken liver lovers
Comments (24)Seagrass, I looked at a bunch of methods I found on the Web and picked the simplest one. Lots of recipes call for adding onions or apples to the fat, but I wanted to try it first without adding another flavor, so mine is just fat and nothing else. All you do is collect the fat trimmings each time you make chicken and save them in the freezer till you have at least a couple of cups' worth. If you remove the skin before you cook chicken, you can add cut-up pieces of that as well. Then just put it all in a heavy skillet over low to medium heat and let it melt slowly, watching so it doesn't burn. Some recipes said to add water to the skillet, but I didn't. As the fat liquefies, you can pour it off into a container. Eventually all that will be left are the pieces of skin, which you can cook till they get brown and curly. Then, if you're suicidal, you can eat those. They're called "gribenes" in Yiddish, and they're as delicious as they are lethal. The melted fat gets poured through a very fine sieve, or even a coffee filter if you're compulsive (I was). I have almost all the schmaltz I made that first and only time still in my freezer. I'm not sure how long it's supposed to keep, but it seems fine, and that was quite a while ago. I guess I could make more if I needed it. It's not something we use a lot of, but it's comforting to know I have some if there's ever a national schmaltz emergency....See MoreChicken - liver, gizzard, heart
Comments (6)I agree, leave out the liver, or it can make everything taste like liver. I love chicken liver and cook it separately, but never add it to gravy, stock, soup, etc. The gizzard is very "muscular", it's part of the digestive system and has to be cooked for quite a while before it's tender. The heart is shaped like the heart of every other creature and is the only piece left after identifying the liver and gizzard out of that little package of giblets. My girls used to fight over the heart. I like gizzards done in the pressure cooker, it tenderizes them nicely. The livers I just want sauteed with bacon and onions. The cooked gizzard and heart used to get diced up and added to the gravy when Grandma was cooking. Annie...See MoreHow do you cook chicken for a recipe?
Comments (23)There is a difference between poaching and simmering. I would not poach a chicken but simmer it. Found this online. Poaching Cooking in liquid with a temperature ranging from 140F to 180F is called poaching and is typically reserved for cooking very delicate items like eggs and fish. At the correct temperature, the poaching liquid won't show any visible signs of bubbling at all, though small bubbles may form at the bottom of the pot. This means that the best way of checking that the temperature is correct is with an instant-read thermometer. Simmering Simmering is cooking in liquid that's a bit hotter than poaching from 180F to 205F. Here we will see bubbles forming and gently rising to the surface of the water, but the water is not yet at a full rolling boil. Because it surrounds the food in water that maintains a more or less constant temperaure, simmering cooks food very evenly. It's an excellent choice for culinary preparations including stocks or soups, starchy items such as potatoes or pastas, and many others. One of the downsides to cooking this way is that it can cause the food to lose vitamins and other nutrients by leaching into the cooking liquid. Boiling The hottest of these three stages is boiling, where the water reaches its highest possible temperature of 212F. It's actually the least likely of the three to be used for cooking. That's because the violent agitation caused by the rolling boil can be too rough on food and will often damage it. Water at a full boil would be a bad choice for cooking an egg outside its shell, as we do when preparing poached eggs, because the agitation would cause the egg to fall apart. The same holds true for delicate fish as well as some pastas. Sue...See More- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoseagrass_gw Cape Cod thanked writersblock (9b/10a)
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