Poultry cut: where it is, price, recipes
Kawa (skin)
Skin wound tightly around the skewer and grilled slowly until the fat renders out and it crisps. In Fukuoka it comes from the neck and goes back over the coals several times.
- Grilled
$2/ lb
- In French
- Kawa (peau)
- Where it sits
- Neck. A chicken's neck has fourteen vertebrae, twice as many as a giraffe's.
- Tenderness
- 2/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 5/5
- Price
- $2 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~10 cm
Compared with its neighbors
Compared with Seseri (neck meat), Kawa (skin) is less tender (2/5 vs 4/5), milder (4/5 vs 5/5), more marbled (5/5 vs 3/5) and costs $11 a pound less.
| Cut | Tenderness | Flavor | Marbling | Price | How to cook it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kawa (skin) | 2/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 | $2 / lb | Grilled |
| Seseri (neck meat) | 4/5 | 5/5 | 3/5 | $13 / lb | Grilled |
