chicken livers

[Wes/Tex]

Quart of Deep Fried chicken livers and a bottle of Texas Pete I'am set for a meal.Gizzards NO to chewy for me.

The secret to gizzards is not to over cook them and eat them right away...they have a habit of becoming boot soles about 10 minutes off the heat!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Perhaps pressure-cooking the gizzards would soften them before battering and deep-frying. I know a long simmer makes them very tender

Hmmmm....., :hmm:

I shall have to try the pressure cooker...,

I cut the muscle from the fiber portion, and then marinate them with soy and garlic and rice wine, PLUS some Adolph's meat tenderizer..., so that the quick cooking of the stir fry for the Kung Pao doesn't turn them into the consistency of a typical red-rubber eraser. :grin:

LD

 

[omarick1948]

There is a right method for frying chicken gizzards that several eating establishments known for great gizzards do in my area. You should par-boil them until tender and then bread and fry them up! Makes a world of difference and fantabuliously good!
:thumbsup:

 

[Nativearizonan]

My dogs have never complained about the gizzards being too tough, so I must be cooking them right.

 

[sidelock]

BULL

 

[sidelock]

Kant git no better'n at.

 

[satx78247]

YEP. - Fwiw, I used too many of both as bait when I was commercial trotlining to eat either one.
(The channel cats DO enjoy them, though.)

yours, satx

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

YEP. - Fwiw, I used too many of both as bait when I was commercial trotlining to eat either one.
(The channel cats DO enjoy them, though.)

yours, satx

You and Clyde are both correct. I had fried chicken livers once, and once was one time too many for me. :barf:

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[satx78247]

Fryer gizzards make 2 suitable baits for channel cat, btw AND they stay on a single hook quite well.
(Livers usually need a treble hook to stay long enough on the trotline for a cat to find them.)

yours, satx

 

[nhmoose]

Chicken hearts are to die for!! Breaded and fried in oil YUM!!!! like eating meat popcorn!

 

[satx78247]

Better you than me. = I used too many "chicken innards" for catfish bait.
(The little "single-server channel cats" love chicken hearts & they stay on the hook/leak blood for a goodly period.)

Btw, all through our college years, my lady/I paid our college expenses with catfish (sold door to door &) dressed to order & with my ROTC scholarship of 50.oo a month.
(Our "single servers" of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds, dressed, sold for a 1.oo each in the late 1960s.)

Note: I suspect that I often went to class smelling of fish.

yours, satx

 

[Gene L]

I kinda like livers. I had the once that were prepared by a buddy's mother and they were delicious, simply cooked with no coating. Haven't been able to achieve that level of goodness since.

As I said, I kinda like them but am fully aware that livers filter out all kinds of chemicals in commercial chickens and feel a little hesitant in eating them. Out of an order, which is about six where I live, I can eat maybe two before my inner doctor intercedes.

I like the taste of gizzards but never ate them as a kid. We grew our own chickens and killing a chicken to eat only furnished one gizzard, so never developed a taste for them. They're chewy, and have in my family been relegated to giblet gravy along with the liver, heart, neck, etc.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Chicken processing plants near here once sold ten pound boxes of frozen livers for about 19 cent a pound. I bought them but fed them to the cats and dogs. Used em for trapping bait too.

I like beef liver but never acquired the taste for poultry liver of any kind.

 

[Ringel05]

Try any of these Dirty Rice recipes;

Dirty Rice

I'm not particularly fond of liver or gizzards but I love me some Dirty Rice. :thumbsup:

 

[satx78247]

When we lived in Jefferson Parish, LA our neighbor (who the inside joke about her was that she was a "full-blood, registered Cajun, with the papers on her") frequently made us dirty rice but, knowing that I don't eat liver, made her recipe with "de-cased" blood "up-country" sausages. = WONDERFUL eating.
(IF she brought us a big pot of that, I didn't care if there was anything else to have for supper but iced tea.)

yours, satx

 

[Ringel05]

When we lived in Jefferson Parish, LA our neighbor (who the inside joke about her was that she was a "full-blood, registered Cajun, with the papers on her") frequently made us dirty rice but, knowing that I don't eat liver, made her recipe with "de-cased" blood "up-country" sausages. = WONDERFUL eating.
(IF she brought us a big pot of that, I didn't care if there was anything else to have for supper but iced tea.)

yours, satx

:thumbsup:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

There is a right method for frying chicken gizzards that several eating establishments known for great gizzards do in my area. You should par-boil them until tender and then bread and fry them up! Makes a world of difference and fantabuliously good!
:thumbsup:

yes that is best way to cook them, I'm fond of heart, liver, gizzard fried or in giblet gravy which I stew the neck down to include the meat also.
smoked turkey necks are good to throw into a pot of rice along with an onion, chopped carrot and a dried cayenne for good campfire fare.

 

[Alden]

Damn but you people are heathens.

No, gizzards are indeed on par with grits -- they are (s)crap for four-legged animals and unloved children. Chicken liver I can do. With lotsa mayo and sweet grilled onion was how Mom did it. But then a coupla plastic containers of them rolled into the corner of the car trunk. In the middle of Summer. Well, we didn't drive too often and they musta exploded within the next 24 hours. The debris field slowly cooked in there for a few days after that. Think we had to junk that auto and chicken liver lost its appeal.

Now beef liver with bacon, onions, and a little Heinz ketchup -- that's food for men!

 

[jethro224]

Now beef liver with bacon, onions, and a [strike] little Heinz ketchup [/strike] side of grits -- that's food for men!

:stir:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I agree that chicken livers are best used to catch catfish (or blue crabs), then you cook and eat either or both of those. :grin: That doesn't mean one cannot use them as food, but you amplify the quantity of the food when using them as bait.

LD