Red Badger's Giblet Gravy Recipe ... Post YOUR Fave Thanksgiving Recipes!.........

Red Badger's Kitchen | Every Thanksgiving | Red Badger

[Red Badger]

Ingredients:

1 pkg giblets from your turkey

1 tub pkg chicken livers

1/2 lb chicken gizzards

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

2 cubes chicken bouillon

2-3 stalks celery minced

1 medium yellow onion minced

1 quart water

2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth

6 hard-cooked boiled eggs

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 cup milk or Half and Half

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Directions:

In a 2 quart or larger pot, simmer the giblets, livers, and gizzards, salt, pepper, bouillon, celery and onion in 1 quart of water for 40 to 50 minutes or until the gizzards are tender. If you have a pressure cooker it's half that time.

Drain liquid, and reserve in pot. Put onions and celery back into pot, simmer while doing the rest.

Chop turkey and chicken livers, mince turkey and chicken gizzards and strip and chop neck neck meat and return to pot.

Add chicken broth to your reserved liquid or if you have a turkey, use drippings (about 1 1/2 cups and 1 can of chicken broth).

Chop eggs and add to broth. Mix cornstarch and milk together and slowly add to broth. Stir well until thickened. Reduce heat to low.

Nutrition Facts: Who cares!!!!!! It's THANKSGIVING!!!!..........

I make it every Thanksgiving! It great poured over stuffing and turkey! Even all by itself!................

[Red Badger]

I don’t know where you would buy any of those things except the cauliflower!................

[Red Badger]

My aunt, many, many years gone now, used to put all the meats and eggs thru a hand cranked sausage grinder!

I guess it made them invisible!..................

[texas booster]

Red Badger, thanks for starting the Thanksgiving recipe thread for 2020.

Here is a thread from 2002 started by Carlo3b, one of the professional chefs that has graced FR through the years. I love this story of his Italian grandfather hosting the extended family's feast.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/779858/posts

And the recipes from Freepers everywhere are great, too.

[Track9]

Baked of course. Lots of butter

[dp0622]

Thanks for the tip man :)

[dennisw]

Sweet potatoes are great for your lo-carb complainers. They are low-glycemic and slow release of carbs. So all can eat this on Thanksgiving day.

Pass me the dark meat, far more tasty and filling. The day after the white breast meat is good in sandwiches as long as you have mayo or a cranberry sauce in there to moisten the white meat.

A well made stuffing is the bomb so pass me this.

[DUMBGRUNT]

How do you prepare the giblets when they are inside the turkey cooking in the oven?

I have noticed on several T-day feasts that the package of giblets came out of the bird with the stuffing?

IIRC my wife discards the package prior to roasting, but others roast them in the factory sealed roasting pack?

The same hostess, not so comfortable with ciphering...

With the first slice on the table, the bird hemorrhage and went into hypovolemic shock !!!

That non decimal minutes /hours thing can be tough.
I doubt recovery from that event is possible for me.

[Red Badger]

LOL!..............I have never seen that happen!..............

I did see one time TOO MUCH STUFFING in a turkey and it ‘burst’ inside the oven!..................

[Larry Lucido]

1/2 lb chicken gizzards

Why don't you just drop off some lobster shells and chicken skins?

[PJ-Comix]

On Thursday, I’ll be posting a video of me preparing Thanksgiving GARLIC turkey. It will be smoked turkey INUNDATED with garlic, garlic, GARLIC!!!

[moovova]

There's a reason I stay out of the kitchen when the wife's cooking. Somebody's gotta man the fire extinguisher.

[Red Badger]

Well, Deep Fried chicken skins are fine..........................the lobster shells are a bit chewy, though................

[moovova]

Gotta say though...that recipe sounds like what Mom used to make...except for the chicken livers.

[whitney69]

I see a lot of lead dishes, here’s a vegetable:

A can of green peas, (or frozen), shrimp, celery (chopped), and Mayo. Mix, salt and pepper, put on table. Simple, tasty. Supplies a good veggy and a little seafood side for the bird.

wy69

[metmom]

Mine is much simpler.

Turkey broth, mostly from the drippings in the pan.

Salt and pepper

Arrowroot powder.

Mix the arrowroot with some cold water and stir until dissolved. Add as much turkey broth as you want and salt and pepper to taste.

Stir over medium heat until thick. MUST keep stirring or it turns into a gelatinous mass.

Arrowroot is a thickening agent that makes THE BEST GRAVY ever. It’s not pasty tasting like flour, and it doesn’t have that clear look that cornstarch does.

Arrowroot is also gluten free. It works for people with celiac who can’t do flour.

[Red Badger]

Where does one get Arrowroot powder?
I have never seen it....................

[KC Burke]

The package is not a factory sealed roasting pack for giblets and should always be removed and giblets and/or neck rinsed and cooked to insure temperature is satisfactory.

Any stuffing, with or without gizzards, liver and other giblets, hinders the uniform cooking temperature of the Turkey or other bird.

[Daffynition]

Use corn starch instead. Or flour. Or tapioca.

Arrowroot is used as the thickening agent

[PROCON]

The Thanksgiving dinner you will be alloted under a Biden administration...you know, to save the climate.

[metmom]

I also cook the giblets, except the liver, separately in a pot with onion and celery and also use that to make the gravy if there’s not enough drippings otherwise. It’s better than just water because at least it’s got flavor and you are not extending the gravy with tasteless water.