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Also called schmaltz, rendered chicken fat adds rich flavor to many recipes and makes use of parts of the bird that would otherwise be wasted. It is a must in traditional chopped liver recipes, but it is also good for cooking potatoes and other root vegetables. It's also delicious used instead of oil for making.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) using 2 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Schmaltz (rendered chicken fat):
- Get Fats and Skins from 1 Whole Chicken
- Get water
Currently, it's most commonly made with rendered chicken fat. It can also include duck or goose fat. (Not many geese and ducks on the dinner table in recent years.) In Jewish tradition, lard isn't kosher, and dairy can't be combined with certain meats, so rendered poultry. Schmaltz (also spelled schmalz or shmalz) is rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat. It is an integral part of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine; where it has been used for centuries in a wide array of dishes such as chicken soup, latkes, matzah brei, chopped liver, matzah balls, and fried chicken.
Steps to make Schmaltz (rendered chicken fat):
- Cut your fats and skins into small pieces and put them in a Stainless Steel pan. Don't use cast iron or any porous metals. Add the water and cook on Low Heat. You should see the liquid turning yellow which means the fat is rendering. NOTE! Don't use high heat and don't let the fats turn brown. The fat has to have a Pale Yellow color at all times.
- Continue to cook until all the water has evaporated. This may take 1 to 2 hours depending on the amount of fats and skins you have. Once the water has gone, you will start to hear a crackling sound; a sound from the skins cooking. Stir the skins so that they don't stick to the pan and continue cooking until the skin have turn brown. Turn off the heat and let the fat cool. Strain it if there are impurities, keep in jar and freeze.
- The skins have done it's job so you can discard it. Or you it in your next stir fry as special tid bits.
A staple of Ashkenazi Jewish cooking, schmaltz made from rendered chicken fat takes some time, but pays off by adding tons of flavor to dishes like chopped liver and matzo balls. In a medium saucepan, combine chicken fat and skin with just enough water to barely cover. Schmaltz is highly flavorful rendered chicken fat often used in Jewish cooking. It's easy to make and worh the effort as it tastes quite a bit different than If you are making chicken schmaltz at the same time as the chopped chicken liver, feel free to add the browned onions and cracklings to the liver in. What if I told you you couldn't use butter to cook with or as a spread — where would you turn?
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