Quail testicle chawanmushi or HOW I MET POULTRY TESTICLES
In Australia where I've lived for most of my life, it's illegal for poultry to be sold with the offal inside. The first time I had the privilege of being able to access beautiful birds with heads and insides, I'd just moved to Madrid and bought a beautiful duck from one of my most favourite people now, Higinio at Hermanos Gomez Ortiz with the intention of learning how to break down poultry to make yakitori, as inspired by Michael who also let me creep watch him break down several birds at his incredible house yakitori night. I was all set for a chill Sunday afternoon when I stuck my hand up the bird's uh.. cavity and IT WAS FULL OF INSIDE BITS. To be honest, even in Australia, I'd never really worked with poultry so well, as usual, it was start at the hardest bit first day for me haha. As a benefit of being able to access such incredible poultry here, I came across a lot of parts I'd never really seen before taken directly from the animal - hearts, livers, ov...
