What is this really tasty part of a chicken found in a cavity in the hip?
About once per month, my mother prepares chicken with rice and a currysauce with pineapple. I don't know exactly what the method of preparation is of the chicken because it's prepared by one of those traveling grilling trucks.
However, what I do know is that there is a small (like 2 cm wide and half a cm deep) cavity in one of the hips of the chicken that's filled with really tasty meat. The cavity is open on the inside and I think it's the best part of the chicken. It appears to be some kind of organ meat, but I'm not sure what exactly it is. I also don't have a picture of the meat, sorry.
What could this meat be?
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Those are the chicken oysters -- muscle meat, not organ meat. I'm glad you've learnt to enjoy them by intuition, as they are indeed a prized portion of the chicken.
Wikipedia tells me the French call this portion sot-l'y-laisse: "(only) a fool leaves it there", because it is little known, easily missed, and much prized.
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Well done.I didn't think anyone else knew that ! I am an ex professional chef,of 35 years. I have seen enough fowl to last a life-time. The oyster meat is indeed a tasty morsel....we used to rack up 'brownie points''to see who had 'earned' the right to eat them. Point of interest...You'll find the equivalent of the 'oyster' in other fowl,from the tiniest sparrow,to the biggest ostrich too,and just as tasty !
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