Lamb Hearts

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Howdy,

I bought some Lamb hearts from Tesco as I was interested to see what they tasted like figured I would try the hearts (and souls) of some animals..

any tips or recipes for cooking these? I have never tried before!

Thanks

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I usually just stuff them with something, then brown them in a frying pan then bake them in an oven, but obviously each to their own. You could try stuffing them with some sort of mushroom/garlic stuffing or sage/onion.

Just remember to trim the layer of fat from around the heart. It isn't tender at all!
 
They stew well too. Rinse them out well because they'll be full of blood and remove any tubes you don't like the look of. Then basically brown and casserole them as you would stewing lamb. 2.5 hours is a good time :)
 
Jonny69 said:
They stew well too. Rinse them out well because they'll be full of blood and remove any tubes you don't like the look of. Then basically brown and casserole them as you would stewing lamb. 2.5 hours is a good time :)
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I was going to suggest long, slow braising.
 
Do they really taste much better than a lamb shoulder or leg then? Because if not, I don't know why people eat this junk. It's been made fashionable by foodies because restaurants can sell cheap offal at hilarious prices.

I try not to be closed-minded but this stuff all tastes like dry buttholes to me, so I have no choice.
 
Probably just me but I would find the idea of eating another animals heart a bit weird. It'd be like, yup this realy is a dead animal I am eating. I know its just meat and I have no qualms about eating any other bit of an animal, its just the heart, its like its personal. :)
 
This is how I eat heart

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Bubo said:
Probably just me but I would find the idea of eating another animals heart a bit weird. It'd be like, yup this realy is a dead animal I am eating. I know its just meat and I have no qualms about eating any other bit of an animal, its just the heart, its like its personal. :)
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ever had faggots or haggis? all sorts of offal in these and both are fantastic.


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Robbie G said:
Do they really taste much better than a lamb shoulder or leg then? Because if not, I don't know why people eat this junk. It's been made fashionable by foodies because restaurants can sell cheap offal at hilarious prices.

I try not to be closed-minded but this stuff all tastes like dry buttholes to me, so I have no choice.
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Why is it junk?

Traditionally it was eaten so no piece of the carcass was wasted. That animal cost your family a lot, and you did it good bloomin justice by making the most of it. It just happens that offal can offer some of the most amazing / different textures and flavours over the more vanilla cuts too.

Although the same rings true with all meat, get crap offal from a crap butcher / store, cook it in a crap way and it will, funnily enough, taste like crap.
 
Lol junk, what you smoking. Offal is very good for nutrients. Traditionally the prized bits have been offal like liver and heart.

It's only very recent screamish rubbish that has relocated it to junk. There's no basis to call it junk.

And was it Brazilian chicken heart kebabs? That's why I want to get hold of them for, looks like a tasty recipe. But so hard to find, Internet shopping only really, but the usuall problem postage is to expensive unless you bulk buy.
 
The chicken hearts were just barbequed ones on a skewer, they were awesome.

lamb hearts,

I stuffed them with home made pork stuffing with mushrooms etc. I then seared them in the pan and then braised them for 2 hours in a sauce i made from red wine, tomatoes, herbs and beef stock.

end result was an awesomely rich sauce and tender hearts which tasted amazingly! and yes, they are not junk! its just because people are pansies these days that people eat less parts like this! I dont understand the fact people will eat a leg of an animal/bum/arm etc but not anything else (knowingly anywayy).

You're missing out! I had sweet breads recently, and they were ammmmmmmmmazing! stop being girls and try these things!
 
It sounds like Tropeiro that you went to - those chicken hearts were rather nice, like a cross between mushrooms and snails in garlic.

Speaking of offal I need to get some haggis in - haven't had any for months!
 
A cross between mushrooms and snails you say? Omg, I simply must eat more of them!

Bleurgh.

You've allow been suckered into paying over the odds for the bits that really should just be fed to pigs.
 
I am in the agreement with the above poster, I wouldn't eat such crap. It's only popular because these 'pro cirtics/celeb chefs' say it's cool to eat it. Nah.. you're alright I'll stick to proper cuts and not the junk that should be fed to an animal.
 
Over the odds?
3.40 per kilo for chicken hearts, sounds ridiculously cheap to me.

There are no proper cuts of meat.
It is far from junk.

And if you're talking about high end restraints, again you're wrong. They're generally ~£40 for three courses and you don't just get one cut of meat.
For example this main
Barbary duck breast with duck hearts and faggot, fondant potato, celeriac and spinach
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Wizzfizz said:
You know exactly what I mean.
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Only sort off, No left over animal parts should be fed to other animals.

And you need to break your programming and ditch the it's junk idea.
It's a very modern, very western idea. Which holds no water.

If you look at hunters, livers and hearts are the price of the kill, if you look at countries which haven't been westernised, like Japan and brazil, such dishes are extremely popular.

And yes you can break your brainwashing parents/society.
I grew up on chicken, beef, lamb and only a couple of cuts, no seafood and only cod and haddock. Oh and all meat cremated. Now I enjoy a far more varied tasty diet.
They way I do it, is I generally (but not always, depends how hard it is to cook) at decent restraunts, like la trompette, chezbruce, harwood arms etc and well the only thing I haven't liked so far is Roe, but neither was it totally disgusting. Sweat breads, foie gras, loads of seafood, steak tartare I first tried in such restraunts and love them, seafood is now some of my favourite eats.
 
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Programming?

It might be modern and a cool thing to do, but I don't buy into the 'craze', I'd rather starve than eat such crap. I couldn't care less what a hunter eats or someone from Japan or Brazil for that matter.
 
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