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The Instacart guide to chicken back
About chicken back
Chicken backs are what's left of the chicken after you or the butcher cuts away the breast, wings, and legs. The backs are mostly bone and skin and sometimes include a piece of meat called the oyster. The oyster is two round pieces of dark meat located near the thigh. The amount of meat you get with a chicken back depends on how it's cut, but it's often similar to that of a wing. Even though chicken backs usually have just a small amount of meat, they're popular meal items in the southern United States.
Chicken backs are often used to make bone broth or stock because they have lots of flavorful marrow. Many restaurants also feature battered and fried chicken backs on their menus, calling them chicken ribs.
The nutrition information for chicken back varies depending on whether it includes the skin. A 1-ounce serving of chicken back with the skin on has:
- 96 calories
- 7 grams of fat
- 28 milligrams of cholesterol
- 28 milligrams of sodium
If you remove the skin, the calorie content drops to 57, and the fat reduces to only 3 grams. Removing the skin also removes all the cholesterol and reduces the sodium to 23 grams.
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Cooking tips for chicken back
Chicken back makes delicious bone broth. If you have several backs, you can make a large batch and freeze the broth in small portions, so you always have it when you need it. After you simmer the backs in water to make broth, make sure to pick all the meat from the bones and use it in your favorite chicken recipes.
You can cook chicken back using almost any method you would use to cook chicken wings or drumsticks. Although this cut is often used to make stock, chicken back is delicious when prepared in several ways:
- Fried chicken backs: Substitute chicken backs for wings to make fried chicken. The bones have just as much meat as wings do, and the flavor is delicious.
- Jamaican stew: Chicken backs are often used to make Jamaican brown stew. This classic Jamaican dish is made with chicken, aromatic spices, vegetables, and a browning sauce to give it a touch of sweetness.
- Cornbread stuffing: Use the meat from chicken backs to add flavor to cornbread dressing or stuffing.
- Soup: In addition to making chicken stock, the meat from chicken backs makes a great addition to soups such as chicken noodle or chicken pho, a Vietnamese soup with onions, ginger, herb and spices, vegetables, and serrano chili peppers. Add chicken back to any soup recipe that calls for chicken, and you'll get lots of flavor.
- Curried chicken back: Curried chicken back is another Jamaican dish made with the meat from the chicken back, garlic, tomatoes, ginger, fresh herbs, and Indian curry powder.
You can find chicken back with the legs attached, a combination that's perfect for roasting. Massage olive oil into the chicken, and sprinkle Herbes de Provence over the front and back of the legs and the back. Sprinkle sea salt over the front and back, and then bake it in the oven for 45 minutes.
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FAQs about chicken back
Whether you purchase chicken backs in a large package and don't need all of them or you have a back leftover from a whole chicken you butchered, you can put what you don't need right away in the freezer. Place the back or backs in a plastic freezer bag, and press out all the air. Seal the bag tightly, and put it in the freezer. Raw chicken will last for a long time in the freezer, but the USDA recommends consuming frozen raw chicken parts within nine months.
When you are ready to use the backs, pull the package out of the freezer, and put it in the lower part of the fridge to thaw it out. This will ensure the chicken never exceeds the refrigerator's temperature, keeping it safe at all times. If you don't have time to thaw chicken back in the fridge, you can run it under cold water.
Grilling is another way to cook chicken back. Prepare it by seasoning with salt, pepper, and your favorite poultry or barbecue dry rub on both sides. You can also marinate the backs before grilling. The grill will add good flavor, and you can pick at the meat just like you would wings or drumsticks.
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