Does anyone buy chicken feet and how would you prepare them?

[Ruth n Jersey]

Chicken feet have been showing up in the meat department of my supermarket. I am intrigued by them and wondered if any of you buy them and how do you prepare them? Researching it I've read it makes a good chicken broth. When I was a kid my mom only made chicken soup out of the wings. They were dirt cheap. Now with people eating wings they have gone up in price but at least the wings have some meat on them unlike those scrawny feet.

 

[RadishRose]

I do not. They look so freaky. When they are in my supermarket at times, they're called "chicken paws" Other than simmering for stock I can't imagine what else.

 

[CeeCee]

When I lived in Hungary from 1997-2003 I saw them quite often, mostly to make a good broth for chicken soup. I wouldn't eat them but I saw people who did.

 

[Falcon]

Say what you will but I'd never buy them. They look too yucky. There are other parts of the chicken

on display that are much more appetizing.

 

[CeeCee]

Say what you will but I'd never buy them. They look too yucky. There are other parts of the chicken

on display that are much more appetizing.

Its not as bad as some of the stuff Andrew Zimmern would eat.

 

[Falcon]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I DO watch his show a lot though. He travels all over the world for his shows.

Speaking of chicken feet, I'd NEVER eat anything containing toe nails !

 

[CeeCee]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I DO watch his show a lot though. He travels all over the world for his shows.

Speaking of chicken feet, I'd NEVER eat anything containing toe nails !

That is the gross part, I agree.

 

[Big Horn]

Anyone who has ever had a hot dog that isn't all beef has almost certainly had chicken feet. Canned chicken stock and chicken broth has them as well. Think of this as my happy news for the evening.

 

[Aunt Bea]

If you do some googling you will see some Asian and Jamaican recipes.

I am curious about cooking with chicken feet but I can't bring myself to try them.

It's really silly because I cook pigs feet or trotters without any problems.

I guess we all tend to accept the foods that our parents and grandparents fed us.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[jujube]

There was a restaurant in Hamtramck (a Polish town entirely surrounded by Detroit) that was famous for its hubcap-sized bowls of chicken noodle soup. Floating in the soup would be two giant chicken feet in all their yellow bumpy glory. I asked my friend what I was supposed to do with them and she said to pick them up and gnaw on them. Around me were LOTS of people doing just that. I really don't want to gnaw on a chicken foot, thank you.

 

[RadishRose]

There was a restaurant in Hamtramck (a Polish town entirely surrounded by Detroit) that was famous for its hubcap-sized bowls of chicken noodle soup. Floating in the soup would be two giant chicken feet in all their yellow bumpy glory. I asked my friend what I was supposed to do with them and she said to pick them up and gnaw on them. Around me were LOTS of people doing just that. I really don't want to gnaw on a chicken foot, thank you.

How was the soup though? I was just reading you have to remove the skin as it doesn't taste very good. what's left is bone, collagen/cartilage and some shreds of meat.

http://theelliotthomestead.com/2015/01/chicken-feet/

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

Thanks for your input and photos. I think I'll just leave them in the meat department. Those toe nails are really turning me off.

 

[terry123]

No thanks!!

 

[n_brown]

My ex-wife is Mexican, she used the patas de gallina for Caldo de Pollo.

 

[Camper6]

They are used in a Chinese style meal my friend was fond of. I have also seen them pickled. They are mostly fat.

If I was starving I might try them.

 

[RadishRose]

My ex-wife is Mexican, she used the patas de gallina for Caldo de Pollo.

I didn't see chicken feet in that recipe, n-brown, but that soup looked wonderful!