Schmaltz (Rendered Chicken Fat)

[violetpastille]

Does anyone use this? Share with me your wisdom. What do you do with it? The chicken skins are accumulating in the freezer...

I tried this recipe to render the fat from chicken skin:
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/04/schmaltz-rendered-chicken-fat-recipe.html


Do you eat the grizbenes? Any hints to make them taste good?

[dweller]

1. essential ingredient

in chopped liver...

can be used in many dishes as an flavor enhancer

[agingdem]

5. memories..

cut the chicken fat into small pieces...chop a small onion and place chicken fat and chopped onion into a pan...sprinkle a little salt..cover and on a very low flame let it simmer...after sufficiently browned drain on a paper towel..

[mitch96]

7. That smell is intoxicating!!

My Mom, then my father used a small cast iron pan just for rendering chicken skins to fat. Then used your recipe to make, pardon the spelling Gribenas?..Chicken cracklings fried with the aforementioned onions.. That smell takes me back to my childhood in an instant..
No wonder none of the men on my fathers side of the family made it past 60!!!
Guaranteed to clog every artery in your body.. but delish!!!
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[agingdem]

8. gribenes...

my mother would add gribenes to scrambled eggs and serve with a bialy..delicious but oy the heartburn...

[Danmel]

2. Honestly, I'm amazed my family has lived this long

Considering the amount of schmaltz we ate growing up. In matzo balls, in chopped liver. Sometimes even smeared on challah.

[agingdem]

6. I know what you mean

my mother cooked everything in schmaltz and I mean everything...yes, matzo balls and chopped liver..but she fried chicken, fish and hamburgers in schmaltz, too...growing up I had this gnawing pain right below my breastbone...I thought it was normal...when I left home and went to college the dorm offered broiled chicken, flame broiled fish and hamburgers and within weeks the pain was gone and it scared the hell out of me.. so I went to health center and explained to the nurse I was dying because the gnawing pain had disappeared...I think I may made her day

[Turbineguy]

3. Hmmm......

I always thought of "schmaltz" as a certain type of popular music. Singer of "rendered chicken fat" sounds complicated.

[violetpastille]

4. Yeah, this is probably my favorite recipe for schmaltz

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