Poultry cut: where it is, price, recipes
Chicken heart
A few grams of red muscle with a clean, meaty flavor. Thread them by the dozen on a skewer and grill them fast: in Brazil, coração de frango is a churrasco staple.
- Grilled
- Pan-seared
$5/ lb
- In French
- Cœur de poulet
- Japanese side
- Hatsu (heart)
- Where it sits
- Giblets. The gizzard grinds grain with the small stones a hen swallows; yakitori cooks call it "sand liver".
- Tenderness
- 3/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 1/5
- Price
- $5 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~3 cm
Compared with its neighbors
Compared with Chicken liver, Chicken heart is less tender (3/5 vs 4/5), milder (4/5 vs 5/5) and costs $1 a pound more.
| Cut | Tenderness | Flavor | Marbling | Price | How to cook it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken heart | 3/5 | 4/5 | 1/5 | $5 / lb | Grilled, Pan-seared |
| Chicken liver | 4/5 | 5/5 | 1/5 | $4 / lb | Pan-seared |
