You ought to be careful when doing this as the paprika easily burns on heat, giving a bitter taste to the whole meal. Immediately after adding the paprika I took the pan off the heat until I mixed everything together. Optionally, you can add some hot paprika powder in addition to the sweet one. I used fresh sweet paprika powder from the latest season. This is the heart of this meal, at least the way we like it in Hungary. When the onion was soft and started to turn golden I added the paprika powder. Midway I added about half tbsp salt to it – it helps the onion to soften faster. I put a large pan on high heat and heated roughly 2 tbsp of oil, then I added in the onion and bacon cubes and on medium heat, with constant stirring I fried it until soft. Finally, I prepared the hearts for cooking: I washed them under the tap and cut the bigger ones in half lengthwise. I cleaned 2 garlic cloves and put them aside. Optionally you can drop it into boiling water for a minute or so to be able to pull off its skin easily, but I preferred not to bother with it as I figured the tomato as well as its skin will almost completely disintegrate by the end of the cooking. What better cooking material to use with some death metal playing in the background?Īs it so often happens, I started with chopping the onion.

So I went down to the butcher and bought nearly half kilo of the stuff – the hearts of roughly 40 chickens, I estimated. Both of which are perfectly fine in the case of chicken hearts.

Open minded people ought to be much more adventurous (and self-critical) than simply following their social programming, and ought to judge food by its taste and nutritional value.

It’s fairly good quality protein after all. While I realise many people might have second thoughts about eating various internal organs such as heart, liver, kidney, stomach, brain, etc., I think it is simply a matter of social programming and there is absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t consider, for instance, the heart of an animal an edible food. The first example shall be a simple but delicious chicken heart stew, made the Hungarian way. Today I figured it was time to introduce one of the more controversial food categories to the blog – offals.

Chicken hunter stew