Unidentified Chicken Part

[tastesgoodwhatisit]

There's some sort of internal bit of the chicken that's about the size of a large marble, is bright orange coloured and appears to come in a cluster. Does anyone know what this is? I can identify everything else spread out on the chicken counter at the market.

[John E.]

Aren't the ovaries the organs that 'produce' the eggs? if so, how could these chicken 'parts' be so-called 'unborn' eggs? (Would not unlaid be more precise).

[sandylc]

I see those regularly at the Asian market.

[smartie]

a big delicacy when we were growing up, they were added to chicken soup for a few minutes before serving and everybody in the family used to fight over who got the eggs in the soup. Haven't seen them for years.

[Bacardi1]

Neither have I. I think that in the decades & decades I've been buying chicken - both from supermarkets & from local free-range farmers - I've come across them twice.

[Bacardi1]

What you're looking at are pretty much "unborn egg yolks" (aka "chicken ovaries), that sometimes get missed when the chickens are cleaned for market.

[tastesgoodwhatisit]

Ah, that sounds possible.

The market where I buy chicken kills them and cuts them up on site (sometimes while you're waiting), so they've got pretty much everything on display.

[sunshine842]

(which would be what I said way back there at the top....)

[Veggo]

Deep fry them and serve with plastic sword toothpicks and a blue cheese dipping sauce. Let your guests try them and then observe them for 20 minutes.

[cajundave]

Then you tell them?

[cajundave]

Give it to the dog.

[carolinadawg]

"Parts is parts".

[sunshine842]

Google "chicken ovaries" -- I think that's what you're looking at.