Shmalts Chicken-fat
From ronnymarcus 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 0
The Jews of Poland, Russia, and basically all of eastern Europe had to make do with anything they could get. This led to recipes like Chicken soup from chicken legs, Gefilte fish, Kugel and also SHMALTS for frying or spreading on bead. Read more There just wasn't anything else. SHMALTS is still used today in many jewish recipes. See less
Ingredients
- Fat from as many chickens as you can get shopping list
- 1 kg will usually give you one jarfull of Shmalts shopping list
How to make it
- Just put the pieces of fat in a frying pan (skillet) over low flame until it all melts.
- Pour into jars (through a sieve).
- Let it cool down
- Close jars and refrigerate
- Use as needed for frying or cooking instead of oil
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- SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
- Great for frying onions.
- Wonderful in shepherds pie
- Gives a great taste to meat or chicken dishes.
- Adds extra taste to mashed potatoes.
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- Shmalts can be frozen and thawed as needed
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very good ronny my mom used to do this alot and fry potatoes and other things in it thank you
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Oh... Ronny, nothing better than potatoes fried in this...I grew up in with Jewish friends.. and this was so good! BE STILL MY HEART! Gotta have it once in a while!
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So good and tasty. Thanks for the recipe, first one I have seen. ^5
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