Chicken Gizzards.

[CPASPARKS]

Usually I go out for a little cultural exchange a few times a month to a "Soul Food" on the other side of town.
My favorite is fried chicken gizzards. I ate some today.
Most of my friends like them too. My wife will not touch them.
Kinda like "mountain oysters".....you either love them or hate them.

Does anyone have any recipes for other ways to prepare chicken gizzards.

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

I like to bread them up in crumbs, fry and lightly salt.
Barbecue them on a pizza screen once in a great while too...

[Nytewyng]

Jeez you guys , to each his own I guess , There are so many other good parts to the chicken

[CPASPARKS]

Dean,
You are my "soul" brother.

Rob,
You being a RN....I thought you would extole the bad virtues of high cholesterol in gizzards. We eat all "parts"...

When I was growing up down here in the South...gizzards were really a treat....we would fight over who got the heart, liver and gizzards when mom cooked a whole chicken and cut it up to fry.

Seems like my dad usually got the "innards". The part that was least liked was #3 the neck #2 the back and #1 the butt. My mom always called the butt the "last part that made it over the fence".

MadJack would say............."Gizzards is Gudd"!!!!!

[Nitetimes]

As many of those damn birds that I butchered when I was a kid, it's a wonder I eat chicken at all, let alone all the nasty stuff inside them. I don't even eat the wings and legs! Never could understand the appeal of eating the gizzard. You know what's been in there?....chickens eat there own......

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Kevin,
Actually, I like the hearts and the livers probably a little more...
Wait...
Hearts #1
Gizzards #2
Livers #3 But... Sometimes Livers a lot depending on my taste buds...
Only problem is... There all so damned small, well... The gizzards have a little size to 'em I guess...
Oh Man... I think the meat in the neck is one of the best for flavor, just too many bones. I like to take the neck and slow cook it in a base for soup.
Yumm!!!

[CPASPARKS]

Dean,
Think up a dutch oven heart/gizzard/liver recipe.

I know you can do it.

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Kevin,
I say let's get a contest together...
The best original recipe, featuring All or a combination of Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Hearts and Chicken Liver, with photos of the meal/dutch oven... wins!
You and I will be the judges!!!
I'll have to see what I can rustle up for a prize...
Lemme know what you think...

Hmmm... Let's see.
I'm thinking a base of cheesy scalloped potatoes, intermingled with and topped with a bed of chicken giblets. Oh... and other herbs and spices.... Browned to perfection and served steaming hot!
Awww Man... I can already smell it cookin.

Yeap!!!... A Chicken Giblet Dutch Oven Recipe Contest!!!

[asianflava]

There was a chain called "Maryland Fried Chicken" when I lived in FL. You could order fried gizzards or livers. I like gizzards don't like the texture of liver (any liver).

Anyway, I was there getting gizzards when this old man in front of me ordered livers. As soon as he got them, he removed them from the styrofoam container and dumped them into his paper bag. I guess he was a fried chicken liver purist or something.

I remember a KFC in North Carolina that had gizzards and livers on their buffet. Haven't seen it anywhere else though.

Although I don't remember eating them. I've heard that mullet gizzards are popular in some places.

[Nytewyng]

I guess its an "acquired taste"......... So when gizzards acquire a taste maybe Ill try it

[Ira]

I LIKE THE GIZZARDS BUT SELDOM HAVE THEM! AND I LOVE THE HEARTS! (Brazilian restaurants serve them grilled on a skewer.)

I also like beef and veal hearts on the grill, marinated in some balsamic vinegar and garlic. They taste great, and also make my wife gag when she watches me eat them.

But what part of the chicken is THIS:

When I was growing up, my granny would give me a small rubbery part of the chicken that she called the "poopik," which means belly button in Yiddish. So I always thought it was the belly button, and I loved it.

I must have been 30 until I learned she was actually giving me the rectum.

Do they actually CALL it the rectum, or is there a nicer word for it?

[TomS]

My French Canadian grandmother loved that part of the chicken. She used to call it "The last part to go over the fence".

[subtearanean]

Do they actually CALL it the rectum, or is there a nicer word for it?

They call it the poopik, you noodnik.

All this talk about innards.....makes me want to point you over to here:

http://tinyurl.com/pvjek

Read it through to the end.

Pic # 2 is my favorite.........

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Ira,
Skewered Chicken Hearts on the grill sound great!!!
Several people believe KFC inventd popcorn chicken... Sheesh!!!

[madjack]

MadJack would say............."Gizzards is Gudd"!!!!!

...NO he wouldn't...most empahtically

When I was growing up, my granny would give me a small rubbery part of the chicken that she called the "poopik," which means belly button in Yiddish. So I always thought it was the belly button, and I loved it.

...in my family(Catholics) we called it the "Pope's nose"......

As many of those damn birds that I butchered when I was a kid, it's a wonder I eat chicken at all

you and me both...growning up, my uncle raised hogs, my Grandmother raised veal and milk cows and we raised chickens and muscovey ducks...lots of chickens and ducks...us kids fought the roosters every day for eggs and every couple of months we had general neck wringing party
madjack