Recipe: Dragon Gills

April 19th, 2008 § 3 comments § permalink

Procrastinating by spending hours in the kitchen instead of the library is a great way to fail school.

Anyway, I bought some chicken giblets1 the other day and I’ve been really looking forward to cooking them. If you’ve never had giblets and are a little grossed out by them – don’t worry! They don’t taste strange, they’re just extremely chewy. So if you like tendons, you’re sure to like giblets (gizzards are my favourite)!

Chicken Giblets Sassy Style

Now this recipe is an original so don’t go thinking I’m just copying and pasting some disgusting chicken innards recipe on here. When I read up on gizzards, I realized that they have to be cooked for a long time. You know what else is simmered for a long time? Tea eggs! One of my favourite street-vendor-foods (and extremely easy to make), tea eggs are simmered in a pot with soy sauce, star anise (or five spice powder), and green tea. Hence, that is how I decided to infuse flavour into my gizzards! I call this dish “Dragon Gills” (because all Chinese dishes have crazy names).

Dragon Gills

» Read the rest of this entry «

  1. Technically, giblets are gizzard, heart, and liver, but there was no liver in mine. []