How To Cook Chicken Hearts

Leticia Celentano Author: Leticia Celentano Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
How To Cook Chicken Hearts

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Chicken heart is one of the most useful offal and one of the ingredients loved by many housewives. Chicken hearts taste great and pair well with many foods.

 
 

How long to cook chicken hearts until tender

Chicken heart is one of the most useful offal and one of the ingredients loved by many housewives. Chicken hearts taste great and pair well with many foods. Therefore, they are used for cooking second courses, soup, salad, barbecue, stuffing for pies, pancakes and dumplings.

The calorie content of chicken hearts is low, so they can be cooked for diet food, including for a child. Hearts contain many vitamins and mineral salts, which is good news. To make chicken hearts soft, it is advisable to cook the freshest ones that have lain in the store for no more than 1 day. Otherwise, the blood that is in the hearts may deteriorate.

Before cooking, the blood from the hearts must be removed. To do this, the hearts are soaked with salt, washed well, cut in half. Chicken hearts are cooked quite quickly and easily, so housewives actively use them in their dishes.

Recipes with chicken hearts

Ingredients:
  • Water
  • chicken hearts
  • Bay leaf
  • Onion
  • Allspice
  • Black peppercorns
  • Salt
We will need:
  • Colander
  • Pot
  • Skimmer

How to cook chicken hearts step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

To boil chicken hearts (500 grams), we need water (2 liters), salt (2 tsp), 2 onions, black peppercorns (3 pcs.), Allspice peas (3 peas), 2 bay leaves, colander, saucepan, slotted spoon.

Step 2

 

Rinse the hearts and soak for 30 minutes in salted water.

Step 3

 

After soaking, wash the hearts again well. Cut off the vessels, films and, if desired, fat, while cutting the hearts in half. Rinse again.

Step 4

 

Bring the water to a boil and put the hearts into the boiling water. Boil 3-4 minutes after boiling.

Step 5

 

Drain the water and rinse the hearts under running water.

Step 6

 

Bring fresh water to a boil and put the hearts into it. This time there should be a little water - it should only slightly cover the hearts on top. Cook for 20 minutes, skimming off any foam with a slotted spoon. Then add salt, peppers, bay leaf, peeled onion and cook under a lid over low heat for another 20-30 minutes until the hearts are ready.

Step 7

 

Readiness is checked with a fork or wooden skewer. You have to break your heart. If at the same time a colorless liquid is released, then the hearts are ready, and if it is reddish, they should still be boiled.

Step 8

 

Drain the water. Boiled chicken hearts are ready.

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