After almost a year and half in Nicaragua I can now say I have seen how a chicken is killed and prepared for dinner. We have eaten chicken many times when we visit houses, but the food was always ready for us. I never thought I really had the desire to see the process of how a chicken goes from roaming around the house to being part of the meal, but surprisingly I found it rather interesting. We were staying with a family in a community called Corozo. Marbelys asked me if chicken was okay for lunch and if I was interested in helping her. Her husband killed the chicken by twirling it around very fast; the chicken moved a bit after, but it did not bother me the least. Then you put the chicken in boling water for a mintue to help remove the quills. The quills were easy to remove and low and behold it looks like a chicken we buy in the stores
. Then she proceeded to burn some of the little hairs off by holding it over the wood fire. After the hairs have been burned off she cleaned the bird with soap and water. Now starts the butchering; cut the feet off first, then the head, cut open the body and clean it out with water and then remove the stomach and other organs and the last step is to cut the chicken into smaller pieces for cooking. We had fried chicken and a speciality dish (I forgot the name of it) made up of the organs and mint and wrapped in a bannana leaf. Lunch was delicious. Although I may never be able to kill a chicken at least I know how to prepare the chicken.
After almost a year and half in Nicaragua I can now say I have seen how a chicken is killed and prepared for dinner. We have eaten chicken many times when we visit houses, but the food was always ready for us. I never thought I really had the desire to see the process of how a chicken goes from roaming around the house to being part of the meal, but surprisingly I found it rather interesting. We were staying with a family in a community called Corozo. Marbelys asked me if chicken was okay for lunch and if I was interested in helping her. Her husband killed the chicken by twirling it around very fast; the chicken moved a bit after, but it did not bother me the least. Then you put the chicken in boling water for a mintue to help remove the quills. The quills were easy to remove and low and behold it looks like a chicken we buy in the stores
. Then she proceeded to burn some of the little hairs off by holding it over the wood fire. After the hairs have been burned off she cleaned the bird with soap and water. Now starts the butchering; cut the feet off first, then the head, cut open the body and clean it out with water and then remove the stomach and other organs and the last step is to cut the chicken into smaller pieces for cooking. We had fried chicken and a speciality dish (I forgot the name of it) made up of the organs and mint and wrapped in a bannana leaf. Lunch was delicious. Although I may never be able to kill a chicken at least I know how to prepare the chicken.
2 comments:
this is perfect! I just did a post on chickens in Pomona, I found a chicken with a chick nesting in our back yard. Now I know what to do. Perfect timing.
Thanks for the informative post, and I loved the pictures! I must confess...I've been here 2.5 years already and still haven't seen a chicken killed. *sigh* - Alan
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