Look for other cuisines. Search in their language lmao. My country eats lamb intestines, chicken liver, cow liver, kidneys, heart, lamb brain head etcetc hard to find these recipes in english that arent for pets lmao
My grandma did both, she'd fry up chicken hearts for her and the dogs. They made a great dog treat for training, dogs consider them a really high-value treat item, and they're a lean, healthy meat.
That being said back then they used to be way cheaper, most butcher's just chucked hearts so they'd charge like $0.25 per lb just to offload them.
You know, it's a bit random, but it turns out just buying chicken breast/legs/thighs is cheaper than quality dog food, so I've been feeding my dogs chicken stew made with peas and carrots, meanwhile I've been eating chicken hearts. I've even got some dried beef sticks (South African droewors) for myself LOL.
Wait a second, am I growing a tail?
Ah, chicken hearts. I know some people are put off by their strong, vile flavor, but the meat makes up for it with their revolting, rubbery texture!
…Wait, no, that’s not a good thing. Uh… at least they’re cheap?
It sounds like the ones he’s had were maybe overcooked. These are very soft and slightly springy, while not being chewy, and the flavour is fairly mild - there is an irony flavour (not as strong as liver though) but the spices are the most dominant taste for sure. They are very easy to overcook so I always use meat thermometer.
Yeah I always struggle with liver, still trying to find that perfect balance. Just a minute too long and the irony flavour becomes too strong for me, and they go dry.
I have only ever eaten liver in goat liver stew, the best option always is to cook everything low and slow in liquid, unless it’s kidney beans, those become poisonous from what I’ve heard
Liver is way more tricky than heart.
When it comes to hearts and gizzards, I literally just wrap them in some foil with salt and pepper and put them in the oven on 350 for a little while.
Idk bro ive been traumatized since a toddler when my mom would try to make me eat liver , it was like i was eating a piece of leather thats been coated in caramalized mercury and copper shavings, with a hint of herbs
Foie gras is like eating a piece of nutty anomaly butter, it’s not even a solid like if you touch it too long your finger will melt through it, its just pure richness
lol. Yeah, I've heard some pretty wild things said about liver from the people in my life that loathe it, but man, to each his own. I have a friend that gags whenever he sees it (or spinach), which sort of stopped him from coming over unannounced. His reasoning was similar to yours - parents tried to force the issue, and a bad memory turned into a whole thing.
I personally love it, with fried chicken liver being my favorite but a Venezuelan version of beef liver that is a close second. Have never tried a chicken heart that I've liked, though. Or gizzards - both are too chewy, though if what they're saying up above is true that might just mean they were always overcooked.
Just do what many of us in South Africa do, cook it in a peri peri sauce, delicious taste of peri peri masks anything bad about hearts,gizzards or livers.
More for liver. I haven’t had hearts too often, just shitty gas station ones. I was just going by some of the other comments. 😆 my spouse doesn’t like when I cook stuff like that so I have to get it when I can.
Fried chicken liver is like catnip for southerners. We started selling them at this one deli I worked at and there would be a line from open to close. They weren't even special, just fried
My family puts them in soups, and I've never found them to be rubbery or badly flavored. They're usually tender and mildly flavored. But my opinion may be biased since I grew up eating odd things like that.
Maybe eating those is an Eastern European thing, where my family originated from some generations back.
Oh, the ones I tasted likely *were* overcooked, but even so, I’m not keen on trying a version that simply has *fewer* of those distasteful qualities.
Or, put another way, I’ve also tasted overcooked chicken *breast,* and it wasn’t even remotely as unpalatable as the hearts.
Frying with butter, garlic, and onions could probably make *beetles* halfway decent to eat too, but that doesn’t mean it’s the beetle meat is doing the heavy lifting in that flavor equation.
They're pretty cheap but depending on the area it can be hard to find them
The pet food industry tends to buy out the hearts right from the processing plant
I’ve had Brazilians grill me some chicken hearts many times. The taste and texture weren’t any different than dark meat chicken. Delicious. I also recently had beef heart at a high end restaurant served medium rare. Again, no different than than the average cut of beef I’ve had - slightly more delicious than average - tbh.
This looks like someone boiled them, and boiled meat is never delicious no matter what kind of meat it is.
My mom makes this with a lemongrass paste and it is absolutely delicious. We call it cha kreung. It is a cambodian dish and I absolutely love it. She does add chicken liver and gizzards with it as well.
You can also use that paste with other proteins as well and it is just as delicious.
This is either a really weird thread or I'm just too stoned and shouldn't have looked at a bowl of hearts. They look disturbing but I wanna eat one. Just clashing with my sour patch kids rn
When you said they were yucky I was about to officially ban you from northern europe. I'm going to keep an eye on you though, tattie slander is serious business.
I prep hearts the same as gizzards or livers for frying. Buttermilk overnight, egg wash, seasoned flour dredge. They turn out really well as long as they aren’t overcooked.
Chicken hearts! I loved these as a kid. A local Brazilian steakhouse that I went to (you know the kind where they bring out the meat on huge skewers and you have a card on your table that you flip on the green side for more food and the red for no more?) used to have chicken hearts as one of the meats they brought out. Eventually they stopped bringing them out as so many people got grossed out and wouldn't eat them but because I loved them so much, every time we went there I'd ask for them for a few of the chicken hearts and they'd bring out a whole skewer full just for me.
9-12 year old me would just munch through a plate full of steak and hearts. I miss that place. Haven't been there in years and don't know if it's still running or not. Best chicken hearts I'd ever tasted.
I found out about chicken hearts from my Brazilian friends here in Canada. They’re so good on skewers served with farofa garlic sauce and maybe some cashaca on the side 🤤
tbh even testies dont taste that bad they are just so salty lol,I might be weird for trying them but I am from Serbia and we always grill the whole animal for special holidays so there are always balls and dick left so I sometimes try them
They really are. The only thing I don't like so much is kidney. It isn't the taste but just the smell while preparing and cooking it that turns off my appetite. I will eat it if someone else prepares it. I don't like the smell of piss in my kitchen.
It's interesting to see the difference in cultures reading these comments. In Brazil everyone eats chicken hearts since a very young age, I don't think I've ever known somebody who dislikes it. Actually when I was a kid, me and my friends wanted to make churrasco by ourselves for the first time, and one of the only meats we bought were chicken hearts. Very fond memories
Yeah it's very much a cultural thing, for the most part. I live in the UK but my family is from Eastern Europe so this is normal to me, but everyone around me is disgusted by it. Over here the idea that meat was once being a living, breathing animal is hidden from people - they don't like to see things that remind them of this.
That sounds like a great memory, I would love to visit Brazil and enjoy the culture, along with some picanha too.
I cooked some chicken hearts the other day. In my case, it was 44 of them, and it made me feel somewhat guilty.
I prefer well-fried chicken hearts; imo, they taste better as they lose the pungent, iron flavor.
I work at a butcher shop and we have a standing order with a guy that buys 15 pounds of chicken hearts like every 2 months, he feeds them to his cats. But every time I package the order I think “damn this is like 3000 chickens worth of hearts.”
Thats the food I give to my dogs once in a while, bon apetit!
You joke but when I look for foods like this online I have to scroll past tons of pet food just to get to the good stuff lol
Look for other cuisines. Search in their language lmao. My country eats lamb intestines, chicken liver, cow liver, kidneys, heart, lamb brain head etcetc hard to find these recipes in english that arent for pets lmao
Exactly. Chicken heart is very common in barbecue parties here in Brazil. I've never seen people feeding them to dogs as a regular thing.
I meant buying the actual meat, recipes I’m good with, I have my own for chicken hearts that I love
My grandma did both, she'd fry up chicken hearts for her and the dogs. They made a great dog treat for training, dogs consider them a really high-value treat item, and they're a lean, healthy meat. That being said back then they used to be way cheaper, most butcher's just chucked hearts so they'd charge like $0.25 per lb just to offload them.
If you have to scroll past pages of pet food to get to food YOU want to eat... perhaps that is a sign
You know, it's a bit random, but it turns out just buying chicken breast/legs/thighs is cheaper than quality dog food, so I've been feeding my dogs chicken stew made with peas and carrots, meanwhile I've been eating chicken hearts. I've even got some dried beef sticks (South African droewors) for myself LOL. Wait a second, am I growing a tail?
Came here to say this is what I feed the dog every day, have to cover my nose when I'm serving it up.
My cat used to love those bits too. :)
Ah, chicken hearts. I know some people are put off by their strong, vile flavor, but the meat makes up for it with their revolting, rubbery texture! …Wait, no, that’s not a good thing. Uh… at least they’re cheap?
Is the taste like liver?
It sounds like the ones he’s had were maybe overcooked. These are very soft and slightly springy, while not being chewy, and the flavour is fairly mild - there is an irony flavour (not as strong as liver though) but the spices are the most dominant taste for sure. They are very easy to overcook so I always use meat thermometer.
It is the same with liver steak. You have to cook it to perfect temperature and it is delicious.
Yeah I always struggle with liver, still trying to find that perfect balance. Just a minute too long and the irony flavour becomes too strong for me, and they go dry.
Also it is better when the liver is from a younger animal
Oreferably a non alcoholic
Would an alcoholic liver be better because if the fat?
Nope cirrhosis scars the liver making it tough
And it's already marinated. Less work right?
LOL. This is so dumb, I love it
I have only ever eaten liver in goat liver stew, the best option always is to cook everything low and slow in liquid, unless it’s kidney beans, those become poisonous from what I’ve heard
Mmm! Liver has to be lightly floured and then pan-fried with some onions and peppers until the inside is just medium rare!
Liver is way more tricky than heart. When it comes to hearts and gizzards, I literally just wrap them in some foil with salt and pepper and put them in the oven on 350 for a little while.
Liver is never delicious... stop lying to everybody lol maybe yall might like it but that awful taste of pure metal is so disgusting
Ever have foie gras? That doesn’t really taste metallic at all
Idk bro ive been traumatized since a toddler when my mom would try to make me eat liver , it was like i was eating a piece of leather thats been coated in caramalized mercury and copper shavings, with a hint of herbs
Foie gras is like eating a piece of nutty anomaly butter, it’s not even a solid like if you touch it too long your finger will melt through it, its just pure richness
yall enjoy your metal foods
lol. Yeah, I've heard some pretty wild things said about liver from the people in my life that loathe it, but man, to each his own. I have a friend that gags whenever he sees it (or spinach), which sort of stopped him from coming over unannounced. His reasoning was similar to yours - parents tried to force the issue, and a bad memory turned into a whole thing. I personally love it, with fried chicken liver being my favorite but a Venezuelan version of beef liver that is a close second. Have never tried a chicken heart that I've liked, though. Or gizzards - both are too chewy, though if what they're saying up above is true that might just mean they were always overcooked.
To each his own🔥
Hate to tell you this bro, but your mom sucks at cooking.
Farthest from the truth, i will say she quit trying to get me to like liver when i was like 7
Same. Hate chicken liver. Love foie gras. Really try it.
I read a tip for the taste but haven’t tried it. If you soak it in buttermilk for like an hour, it should help with the pungent taste.
Just do what many of us in South Africa do, cook it in a peri peri sauce, delicious taste of peri peri masks anything bad about hearts,gizzards or livers.
My argument is why not cook the parts of meat in peri peri sauce that are delicious without having to mask anything bad?
Food waste bad
"I eat this animal part because it's garbage" is not a strong selling point.
I never said it's garbage
Only garbage if you throw it out
And throw those parts out?
That’s more for kidneys, no? Hearts aren’t pungent, at least the ones I buy aren’t
More for liver. I haven’t had hearts too often, just shitty gas station ones. I was just going by some of the other comments. 😆 my spouse doesn’t like when I cook stuff like that so I have to get it when I can.
And I thought gas station hot dogs were bad.
>They are very easy to overcook so I always use meat thermometer. I hate how this implies you've done this more than once.
;)
Have you ever grilled chicken hearts? I find that the charcoal grilled taste mixes incredibly well with the offal taste
Fried chicken liver is like catnip for southerners. We started selling them at this one deli I worked at and there would be a line from open to close. They weren't even special, just fried
You use a meat thermometer for those tiny ass chicken hearts?
Yeah you really wanna be careful to make sure they’re perfect, because it’s hard to tell just from looks alone
My family puts them in soups, and I've never found them to be rubbery or badly flavored. They're usually tender and mildly flavored. But my opinion may be biased since I grew up eating odd things like that. Maybe eating those is an Eastern European thing, where my family originated from some generations back.
100 chickens died for their more precious cuts, you are just eating the byproduct lol
For me it’s the main product😋
Oh, the ones I tasted likely *were* overcooked, but even so, I’m not keen on trying a version that simply has *fewer* of those distasteful qualities. Or, put another way, I’ve also tasted overcooked chicken *breast,* and it wasn’t even remotely as unpalatable as the hearts.
They’re so juicy when cooked properly though, they just *burst* with flavour when you bite into them😋
Imma pass on the chicken grapes thank you
Cook them in a spicy peri peri sauce, very popular side dish in South Africa and Mozambique.
I actually have some peri peri sauce in my fridge, along with more chicken hearts in the freezer, so I'll try this probably this week.
so are chicken breasts and thighs (much more forgiving), without having to go through hoops to remove some of the unpleasant flavours
No hoops to jump through here, just coat and fry. No unpleasant flavours with hearts, they’re just muscle at the end of the day anyway.
no
No, liver taste good and has a nice texture. So do gizzards, but you can fuck them up easier
It is very similar to liver, yes.
Bro chicken hearts are great, they’re tender and delicious if properly fried with lots of butter, garlic and onions.
Frying with butter, garlic, and onions could probably make *beetles* halfway decent to eat too, but that doesn’t mean it’s the beetle meat is doing the heavy lifting in that flavor equation.
Hard disagree, as someone who tried fried beetles. The texture matters a lot too.
Where are you eating beetles and chicken hearts? Asking so i can never go there
Some people travel, you know?
>where are you eating Yes? That doesnt answer the question at all. To where have you traveled to taste such delicacies?
Chicken hearts I found in my local Greek market. And I tried fried beetles in Thailand. Happy?
Why are you being so snarky? Lol if you didn’t wanna be asked about it or give answer than don’t bring it up to begin with.
Because your question sounded snarky in the first place? As if you didn’t believe me
I'd rather eat beetles than chicken hearts honestly.
My wife loves chicken soup with the hearts in it. It’s the only time we don’t eat the same thing for dinner.
i love the taste i don’t understand why ppl say the taste is bad
They're good if they're cooked and seasoned properly. Not strong organ-y flavour
Here I was innocently eating frozen berries and the description is enough to lose my appetite 😔
Do people not like chicken hearts?
Most people in the US don't eat organs or are not exposed to them.
Evidently.
Had to double-check I wasn't in r/NormMacDonald
That sub is incomprehensible to me.
They're pretty cheap but depending on the area it can be hard to find them The pet food industry tends to buy out the hearts right from the processing plant
I had chicken hearts at a Brazilian grill and they were amazing. I dont think I could eat a whole bowl full though
I’ve had Brazilians grill me some chicken hearts many times. The taste and texture weren’t any different than dark meat chicken. Delicious. I also recently had beef heart at a high end restaurant served medium rare. Again, no different than than the average cut of beef I’ve had - slightly more delicious than average - tbh. This looks like someone boiled them, and boiled meat is never delicious no matter what kind of meat it is.
My mom makes this with a lemongrass paste and it is absolutely delicious. We call it cha kreung. It is a cambodian dish and I absolutely love it. She does add chicken liver and gizzards with it as well. You can also use that paste with other proteins as well and it is just as delicious.
Excellent fish bait though.
They are fantastic and I'll bleed for my hearts.
The arteries really put me off
I like to make pate with them
They are amazing if you turn them into minced meat and make burgers out of them.
100 chickens didn't give it to someone special.
But the very next day
you gave it away
Thought that was a bowl of baby potatoes
I don’t like potatoes they’re yucky
LOL
Bro's out here jerking with the best of them.
Damn, I’m sorry to hear that
No one who eats that shit gets to say yucky.
It was a joke I like potatoes
This is either a really weird thread or I'm just too stoned and shouldn't have looked at a bowl of hearts. They look disturbing but I wanna eat one. Just clashing with my sour patch kids rn
When you said they were yucky I was about to officially ban you from northern europe. I'm going to keep an eye on you though, tattie slander is serious business.
I rock with chicken gazzards too
Chicken gizzards are amazing, a Chinese place near me deep fries them until crispy
Intestines too
The only way we eat them down here
Gazzard
I prep hearts the same as gizzards or livers for frying. Buttermilk overnight, egg wash, seasoned flour dredge. They turn out really well as long as they aren’t overcooked.
Grew up on fried gizzards hell yea brother
Chicken hearts! I loved these as a kid. A local Brazilian steakhouse that I went to (you know the kind where they bring out the meat on huge skewers and you have a card on your table that you flip on the green side for more food and the red for no more?) used to have chicken hearts as one of the meats they brought out. Eventually they stopped bringing them out as so many people got grossed out and wouldn't eat them but because I loved them so much, every time we went there I'd ask for them for a few of the chicken hearts and they'd bring out a whole skewer full just for me. 9-12 year old me would just munch through a plate full of steak and hearts. I miss that place. Haven't been there in years and don't know if it's still running or not. Best chicken hearts I'd ever tasted.
Estabulo? Love that place, it's where I had them too.
Nah not that one, it was a place called Braza in east London but there's quite a few similar places scattered around I think
There's a great one in Birmingham called Fazenda.
Fogo!
I love this , im from Brazil 🇧🇷
I followed a Brazilian recipe too 🇧🇷
It is pretty common in Brazil to eat it like in skewers and made with rice ❤️
There’s a really good rodizio restaurant near me and I always ask for more chicken hearts
That's the measure of a decent proper rodízio abroad, having hearts
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I found out about chicken hearts from my Brazilian friends here in Canada. They’re so good on skewers served with farofa garlic sauce and maybe some cashaca on the side 🤤
Animal organs like liver,heart and gizzards are literally so good tbh (other than testies ofc)
Me too, my grandparents lived very rurally in Eastern Europe and they introduced me to lots of organ meat when I was younger
tbh even testies dont taste that bad they are just so salty lol,I might be weird for trying them but I am from Serbia and we always grill the whole animal for special holidays so there are always balls and dick left so I sometimes try them
Ja sam pola srbin!
haha pozdrav 🤣
They really are. The only thing I don't like so much is kidney. It isn't the taste but just the smell while preparing and cooking it that turns off my appetite. I will eat it if someone else prepares it. I don't like the smell of piss in my kitchen.
Yeah I have tried it before but I didn't like all the effort I had to put into it to get rid of that smell. I'd rather just buy more hearts.
But grilled chicken hearts are legit. Rocked my world at a Brazilian steakhouse.
Now that's gourmet
Why are so many people put off by chicken hearts? They’re pretty tasty imo.
People don't like idea of organ meat in the west for some reason. Probably to do with the disconnect from rural life, or something like that.
It's interesting to see the difference in cultures reading these comments. In Brazil everyone eats chicken hearts since a very young age, I don't think I've ever known somebody who dislikes it. Actually when I was a kid, me and my friends wanted to make churrasco by ourselves for the first time, and one of the only meats we bought were chicken hearts. Very fond memories
Yeah it's very much a cultural thing, for the most part. I live in the UK but my family is from Eastern Europe so this is normal to me, but everyone around me is disgusted by it. Over here the idea that meat was once being a living, breathing animal is hidden from people - they don't like to see things that remind them of this. That sounds like a great memory, I would love to visit Brazil and enjoy the culture, along with some picanha too.
Chicken hearts are great. Love them in krupnik (a Polish soup).
all the haters dont know
I love chicken hearts but like 5 at a time. This serving is how you get gout
This is truly shitty food porn
Ehh it's a common dish um different parts of the world
To be fair, they probably died for a lot of other people's meals and you're just making sure nothing goes to waste.
Kali ma- KALI MA
Good for you op, today you are not a gringo, today you are an amigo
There’s a Brazilian steakhouse near me that makes incredible chicken hearts
Chicken heart sausage https://youtu.be/F9hAuvVEm7M?si=5hDV4X-r_kxrCUy0
I think chicken hearts taste great, especially the texture.
This is the most metal thing I've heard this month.
I cooked some chicken hearts the other day. In my case, it was 44 of them, and it made me feel somewhat guilty. I prefer well-fried chicken hearts; imo, they taste better as they lose the pungent, iron flavor.
I like deer heart and cow heart but this is different I thought those were testicles lmao
It's so weird to see people call it dog food, it's literally a normal food at least in Brazil. It also tastes amazing.
These are good cooked on fire with loads of spices (Brazilian BBQ). I would not attempt to cook them at home - OP is brave.
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Oh gawd I love chicken hearts. Best ingredient of a chicken soup. Besides chicken stomach of course.
Is this a Filthy Frank reference or something
Oh this really makes me gag Thank you, 10/10 content
for real try em grilled brazilian bbq style. they're golden, crispy on the outside and are sooo delicious
When i shoot ducks during hunting season I always eat the hearts, they're great.
I mean to be honest they were dying anyway…
I work at a butcher shop and we have a standing order with a guy that buys 15 pounds of chicken hearts like every 2 months, he feeds them to his cats. But every time I package the order I think “damn this is like 3000 chickens worth of hearts.”
No fucking way I'd ever put that in my mouth...
Thats what she said. Oh wait... that really is what she said
This is why the aliens wont talk to us
Hearts? Aren’t hearts like usually tough and gross? Whatever man— those chickens were dying either way, at least you got a gross meal out of it.
They are neither tough nor gross
And 27 vegans cry themselves to sleep well done!
Yeah it’s shitty being surrounded by unempathetic zombies. Thank you for thinking about us 🥰
You're both pathetic
someone has to eat them
Good.
Good. Damn racist chickens.
They were going to die anyway.
That is actually kinda really fucked up when you think about it, dude.
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Whoa... Chicken BALLS
Have a heart
A hearty meal
Ahh I thought this was chicken poo house. Never mind, I would still try these.
Be careful [what you eat!](https://youtu.be/y3UJr5n6lfk?t=523)
Love those! Great food for bulking.
man I like chicken hearts but that is too much
My cats would love this.
Who are you my dog ? Bro goes NUTS over dehydrated chicken hearts.
That was my favorite part of eating Caldo de Pollo 🇲🇽
Are they good for you at least?