Chicken gizzards. A gizzard is a muscle found in the digestive tract of a chicken. If you've ever seen chickens pecking away at the ground, they are in fact swallowing tiny bits of grit and gravel, which travels through the chicken's digestive tract and eventually lodges in the gizzard. Drain and chop into bite size pieces.
Learning more about chicken gizzards may provide you with a couple of new recipes and an appreciation for this organ's high nutritional value. A gizzard is an organ found in the digestive tract of a chicken. Similar to a stomach, the gizzard is used to grind up the foods the bird eats. You can have Chicken gizzards using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chicken gizzards
- You need 1 lb of chicken gizzard.
- You need 1 of ⁄2 chopped onion.
- It's 2 of garlic cloves, chopped.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of Olive oil.
- It's 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce.
- It's 1 tablespoon of soy sauce.
- It's 2 teaspoon of thyme.
- Prepare 2 teaspoon of spice.
- Prepare 1 of ⁄4 teaspoon black pepper.
- You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
- You need 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Gizzards are considered a delicacy in certain cultures, and provide a healthy dose of certain vitamins and minerals. Slice onion, garlic and set aside. Preheat oil and drop in the carefully chicken gizzard, turn the heat to medium and saute for a few minutes, just when they start to turn brownish, crunchy color, drop in onion and garlic. Grilled chicken gizzards are sold as street food in Haiti and throughout Southeast Asia.
Chicken gizzards step by step
- Mix all ingredients except onion, garlic and olive oil into a large bowl.
- Heat up the saucepan, and add olive oil, onion, garlic and marinated gizzards into the pan.
- Bring to a slow cook and Cover..
- Stir occasionally. Turn down heat to low and simmer for approximately 3 hours..
Giblets consist of the heart, liver and gizzard of a bird, and are often eaten themselves or used as the basis for a soup or stock. Gizzard and mashed potato is a popular food in many European countries. Place gizzards into a medium saucepan, and cover with water by about an inch. Add salt and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium and boil, covered, until tender.