Instead of pork rinds, fried chicken feet!
Posted on 03/03/2019 3:36:08 AM PST by vannrox
Since forever, our family has used chicken feet to make soup stock.
I alone in our clan am somewhat infamous for eating the things afterwards.
Hey Commie Chinese...you can have the chicken lips Free.
Chicken “paws” are very high in collagen. Great for chicken stock/bone broth! I made stock last night, but didn’t have any “paws”. The only place I can find them is Walmart, but the quality leaves a lot to be desired.
Yes! You need feet to make great stock! I try to buy locally but I think everyone throws the feet away (”No one wants those”). I have an easier time getting pigs’ feet, which are an acceptable substitute, but I wish chicken feet were more common in MA.
A parsnip, turnip & whole onion. Stores around here used to sell a “greens” bunch, I use the flakes if I have to. Sliced carrots. Simmer for hours. Season to taste.
Eat them carefully. You find it’s really skin you eat, like a very thick version of the normal stuff you eat. They have small, thin bones.
I’d eat them again, but would not expect to eat a lot. It’s odd to me and there’s it much “food” there.
As a kid my family would butcher our own chickens. My younger brother was terrified of the chicken feet and I would chase him around the yard with a paw to the point where he would cry. Powerful juju in a chicken foot.
I should mention that we grew up and he is three inches taller and outweighs me by 60 pounds. Lucky for me, he laughs at the childhood terrors I inflicted. Our dad would cut them up for bait after he got tired of my nonsense and we would go fishing.
Before the buffalo wings craze used to be able to buy them in bulk cheap for crabbing. Your post made me realize I should try using the feet as bait instead.
Many years ago one early spring when the snow was melting the dog came home with a baby’s arm and hand.
It was spooky.
only on closer inspection did we discover it was a waterlogged chicken leg and foot.
We use the backbones (necks) from roasters we buy since we no longer have a brood. Where do you crab? We live in SE VA and did occasionally toss out lines with my sons.
They have discovered girls so, we don’t crab much anymore.
I’d have to be starving to eat chicken feet. Although you could pick your teeth with the toenails.
Is that how you got your FReeper name? ;)
May have been a turkey vulture if it was that big...
Used to go to the live poultry market in The Bronx and get the heads. We would use them to catch blue crabs ( we called them blue claw crabs).
I’ve heard parsnips are very good to put in stock, but I’ve never tried them. I need to. I do onion (skins and all), carrot, celery, garlic (peels and all) thyme, peppercorns,and parsley if I have it.
Locally their is a International food mart, run by Koreans and Mexicans(?). They carry all,sorts of food, chicken feet included. See if there is something similar near you.
I’ll check and see, thanks:)
Used to be able to buy a “soup chicken” which was a nice way of saying “old chicken”. The local supermarket butcher said they don’t carry them, but directed me to try the ethnic neighborhoods (Asian or Latino), and lo and behold.
Instead of pork rinds, fried chicken feet!
I like them... any time you can get “meat jello” from cooking down tendons and the like, it’s good stuff for your joints, and makes nice rich broth.
Out of desperation once I made chicken and dumplings using skinless breast meat, rather than cooking down an entire chicken carcass, and it was awful. Worst dumplings ever.
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