What to do with giblets

Mrs_Chip

Oh how I miss being able to get a chicken with the giblets in!!!

I put the neck and the liver into the roasting dish alongside the chook. When it's cooked I take the neck out and take the meat off and I mash up the cooked liver (although this is my favorite bit!) and add both to saucepan for the gravy. The heart is a nice titbit when roasted too, for a kitty, dog or human!

Neck bones go in with the carcass for stock.

Horseunderwater

Poultry Giblets:

Most fresh wrapped birds do not have them (supermarkets). However - if you look at the frozen ones in the supermarket, some will say with and some will say without giblets.
A use for them:
Stock: Large pan full of 2/3rd water. Add all giblets into pan, add 2 -3 carrots, whole onion, whole stick celery and whole stalks parsley tied together if you can. (bouquet Garni). Add Dst sp salt and ground black pepper. Maybe some cayenne pepper. Boil it up and then simmer for about an hour or so. Strain via sieve. Allow to cool and store in freezer in smaller portions and use as needed. Old ice cream tubs ideal. Use the cooked meat as cat food after picking out soften bones. Most cats/dogs love it.
Or: Cook them in a slow cooker, pick any bones out and add veg and make a chicken broth type soup with added pasta or seed barley.
If you have a pressure cooker and are OK using one. It only takes 15 mins if that at high pressure to do stock. Can be done for any fowl type bird.
I do it with Duck giblets at Christmas. But I have done it with turkey and Chicken and pheasants in years past, just not lately.

redlady_1

He wasnt a supermarket bird. A while back I asked about ethically sourced meat as I wanted something which made despatch quick and as painless as possible. I found a farm in Devon called Pipers and ordered this beast from there. They are not cheap but did what I wanted them to do.

He even looks different from supermarket chooks and the gibs were in their own sealed packet with the Chicken.

Pitlanepiglet

Have you tried feeding FK cooked liver and bits? Our dog eats raw meat but won't eat raw liver/giblets - they have to be lightly pan fried!

scrabbles_2

OOoh I didn't realise you could ever get chickens with giblets these days! I can't even get them from my butcher as "people don't want them" they all get removed at the abattoir and sold to wherever before they are taken anywhere near his shop. I am envious!

kerri_gt

Hi all, another giblet related question I'm afraid. I bought a turkey yesterday from the supermarket (well i couldn't resist as it was down to £4.30 from £22 :money:). I've (badly) butchered it now into various parts that resemble drumsticks, wings etc and they're in the freezer (I didn't want to roast the whole bird and then freeze bit as I want to use it to make other batch cooked meals and I'd then have to refreeze cooked and frozen meat IYSWIM - so frozen raw).

Sorry, I digress. I am a little stumped with the giblets - I'm not really into making gravy or stock from them (made home made stock once and it was foul - sorry, no pun intended) and it put me right off. But I did make a lovely steak and kidney pie the other week. I've got some chopped steak in the freezer, could I use the giblets (liver and heart minus the neck) as a kidney substitute in similar style pie?

Loathed to give them to my cat as she's spoiled enough and she turned her nose up when I cooked her liver before.

zippychick

ive merged this with our giblets thread