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The widest spread of all livestock enterprises specifically, the poultry production
III. LESSONremains
OVERVIEWand constitutes an important pillar of food and nutrition security improvement as
well as socio-cultural and economic development in the world. It is a major meat and egg
contributor and vital source of nutrients for people in many developing countries.
In this module, basic information will be given about the principles in preparing and
cooking poultry dishes, nutritional benefits, market forms, and plating and presenting the
finished products.
V. LESSON Poultry
CONTENT and Game Dishes
Poultry are feathered animals raised for the table for human consumption. They are
raised domestically and commercially. Chicken is the most popular kind of poultry. Game
birds are quails, pigeons, partridges, pheasants and wild ducks. They are hunted in the field or
forest and raised in captivity. Poultry and games are omnivores. They eat seeds and insects.
Poultry is the general term for domestic bird including chickens, turkeys, ducks,
geese, and game especially raised to be eaten for their meat and eggs. It is classified
according to breed, weight, and age.
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Kinds of Poultry
1. Chicken
Chicken is the most common, popular and largest group of poultry as to age or
degree of maturity. They are classified as:
Pullet - A baby chicken which is four to six weeks old and weighs mostly 1 lb. It is
suitable for roasting and grilling.
Broiler - A young chicken usually 9 weeks old and weighs about 2 pounds. It has
soft, pliable, smooth skin and flexible breastbone cartilage.
Capon - A surgically unsexed male chicken, weighing about 4 to 7 pounds with
tender, flavorful and lots of white meat. It is a more expensive poultry.
Broiler Fowl - An older chicken weighing 8 pounds and about 8 months old.
Broilers provide at suitable for stews or casseroles.
Layer-or the bro-hen - The laying hen is about 1 ½ years old and weighs 4 ½ to 6
pounds.
Stag - A male chicken with coarse skin, a toughened and darkened flesh and
hardened breastbone cartilage. It is under 10 months of age and weighs 3 to 6 pounds.
It is known as the rooster.
Roasting Chicken - It is eight weeks old and weighs 3 to 4 pounds. It is the best
size for a family.
2. Turkey
Turkeys are not readily available in the market. They are classified into:
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b. Young hen or young tom - Young hen weighs 12 to 16 pounds. while young tom
is 12 to 30 pounds.
c. Old hens or old toms - This is the breeding stock of turkey. Its meat is best used
or picked for casserole dishes.
d. Yearlings - These are turkeys under 15 months of age when marketed.
3. Duck
Broiler Duckling or "Fryer" - This is a young duck usually when 8 weeks of age,
with tender meat, soft bill and windpipe.
Roaster Duckling - A young duck usually under 16 weeks of age with tender meat
and has bill that is completely hardened and windpipe that is easily dented.
Mature Duck or Old Duck - This is more than 6 months old, with tough flesh,
hardened bill, and windpipe.
4. Goose
Young goose or gosling weighs from 4 to 10 pounds with tender, fatty, creamy-
white flesh which becomes light brown when cooked. It has a slightly gamey flavor.
Mature or old goose is more than 6 months old and weighs 10 to 18 pounds. These are
rarely used in food service.
Chicken and games are sold in the market or grocery stores in various purposes.
Following are the various market forms of poultry.
Live Poultry - Live poultry are those that are still in cages. When buying live
poultry, choose those that are alert, healthy, well-feathered, free from broken bones,
bruises and blisters.
Dressed Poultry - Dressed poultry are slaughtered poultry with head, feet, blood,
and feathers removed, but with viscera intact. This form of chicken is available in
most markets. Good dressed poultry have moderate fat covering, free from
pinfeathers and have no missing skin or parts.
Drawn Poultry - These are dressed chicken with visceral organs, feet and head
removed. They are available either chilled or frozen. Frozen poultry with freezer
burns should not be purchased.
Boneless Chicken - These are dressed and drawn chicken with all the bones
removed without destroying the shape of the chicken.
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Ready to Cook Poultry - Poultry that are dressed, drawn, and processed for
cooking
Choice Cuts - These are the parts of poultry packed and sold separately in
supermarkets or in wet markets. Such parts are wings, drumstick, thighs, back,
breasts, legs, halves and quarters. Chicken feet, heads, intestines, giblets and gizzards
are sold in wet markets and bought as preferred by buyers.
Poultry Cuts
Chicken Parts
Whole chicken
Drumstick Breast
Half Thigh
The common cuts of poultry available either in supermarkets or wet markets are
the following:
a. Whole Chicken - It is not cut and available either fresh or frozen.
b. Halves - Poultry is cut into two, from front to back through the backbone and
breastbone with wings attached.
c. Breast - Chicken is cut with wings and back portion removed.
d. Whole Leg - It consists of the drumstick and thigh of poultry.
e. Thigh - It is the portion of the leg above the knee joint. It can be prepared
boneless and skinless.
f. Drumstick - It is the lower portion of the leg quarter.
g. Chicken Wing - It is composed of the drumette, midsection and tip.
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Poultry's meat is similar with the meat of other animals for human consumption. It is
rich in proteins that contain amino acids essential for body building and repairing
body tissues.
It is also a good source of B vitamins-thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin. Dark chicken
meat is richer in riboflavin and thiamine and is poorer in niacin and more abundant in
fat and connective tissues than white meat.
Dark meat belongs to poultry that are more active and mobile. The flesh of young
chicken is high in niacin.
Carotenoids and carotene are present in chicken. These make the chicken fat
yellowish.
The fat is deposited in the muscle tissue in thick layers under the skin and in the
abdominal cavity.
The fat content of goose, duck or turkey is higher than chicken.
Poultry meat contains monosaturated fat that helps in reducing bad cholesterol and
prevents the risk of heart disease and stroke
Poultry should be processed or prepared before cooking. Here are the steps to
be followed in preparing poultry.
1. Slaughtering
2. Scalding
3. Defeathering or Plucking
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4. Eviscerating
5. Deboning
This is to remove the bones from poultry meat in preparation for cooking
Spoilage
The various types and causes of food spoilage are the following:
Cross-Contamination
Cross-contamination occurs when microbes and dirt from people, raw meat and
raw vegetables transfer to food, on utensils and equipment or through poor storage
practices. This is true when handling poultry and other meat products.
Salmonella is common to raw poultry and game bird. This causes sickness such
as typhoid fever, food poisoning, and parathyroid. The growth of bacteria and the risk of
food borne illnesses can be eliminated through proper handling and storing of poultry. It
is a must that safe handling must be observed.
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1. Wash your hands thoroughly – In washing the hands, use hot soapy water before
preparing the food and after using the bathroom or handling the pets.
2. Avoid cross-contamination - This can be avoided by observing the following
Use one cutting or chopping board for poultry and another one for other food
products.
Always wash the cutting board, knife, and utensils after they come in
contact with raw meat, seafood and poultry.
Use separate utensils to handle raw and cooked food. Use color coded utensils
such as chopping boards and knives.
3. Cook food in proper temperature - Food are properly cooked when heated for enough
time at right temperature to kill harmful bacteria. Use thermometer to measure the
internal temperature of cooked poultry, to make sure that meat is cooked all the way
through. Whole poultry should be cooked to 180°F for doneness. Cook eggs until the
yolk and white are firm and not runny. Do not use recipe in which eggs remain raw
or partially cooked.
5. Clean kitchen surface often - Use paper towels to clean up kitchen surface. Do not
use sponges or cloth towels to clean up surfaces as they harbor harmful bacteria.
Wash cloth, dish towels and sponges often in hot water.
Poultry is cooked like other kinds of food. Cooking poultry involves moist heat
methods and dry heat methods.
Methods of cooking with the use of liquid such as stocks, water, wine, and steam.
It is the temperature of the liquid that marks the difference among the moist heat method.
Simmering (185°F - 205°F) - To cook food in liquid close to the boiling point.
Food items that are simmered are those that are tough and need to be tenderized
by prolonged exposure to moist heat. The cooking liquid is usually seasoned with
salt and most often with aromatics and herbs. At the proper temperature, the
liquid will show signs of the following:
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Steaming - To cook in liquid close to the boiling point. Foods are cooked by
water vapors in an enclosed cooking vessels. Food items to be steamed should be
naturally tender and of a size and shape that will allow them to cook in a short
amount of time. Adding aromatic ingredients to the water will contribute a subtle
flavor to the steamed food.
In this method, the heat is conducted without moisture that is by hot air, hot
metal, radiation or hot fat. It is classified into two categories: with fat and without fat.
Baked and roasted poultry are seasoned and flavored and cooked until golden
brown in color with moist and tender texture.
Sauteing
This is cooking food rapidly in a little fat over relatively high heat. It came
the French word "sauter' which means to jump, referring to the action of tossing
small pieces of food in the sauce pan. A wide shallow pan is best used for sauteing.
The pan is preheated with a little fat before adding the food item to be sauteed. Let
the food item weeps and simmers in its own juice. If the pan
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is full, see to it that there is sufficient space between the pieces of food items, to
steam to escape and prevent toughening.
Pan Frying
Deep Frying
To cook food submerged in hot fat. The pan used is deep enough to prevent
boiling over or splashing of fat and wide enough to remove food items easily. Deep
frying is done with the temperature between 350°F - 375°F.
Poultry dishes can be made appealing and appetizing through proper plating
and presentation. The balance of color, shape, and texture contributes to an enhanced
food presentation, as well as the use of plate that should be proportioned to the food.
The use of garnishes adds eye appeal and enhances the flavors of the food.
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Chicken Italian
Ingredients:
2 lb chicken parts
2 T olive oil
1 C chicken broth
½ C tomatoes (chopped)
1 pc onion (peeled and chopped)
¼ t dried oregano
Ground black pepper (to taste)
Parsley (chopped, for garnish)
¼ t basil leaves
¼ t salt
¼ C flour
¼ C water
Procedure:
1. Brown chicken in olive oil. Pour off excess fat.
2. Add broth, tomatoes, onion, oregano, basil, salt, and pepper.
3. Cover and simmer for 45 minutes or until the chicken is tender.
4. Blend flour into water to form smooth paste.
5. Slowly stir paste into chicken mixture, cook until the gravy thickens.
6. Garnish with parsely. Serve.
7. Makes 6 servings.
Chicken Hamonado
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken (cut into serving pieces)
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp ground white pepper 1
tbsp calamansi juice
Cooking oil for deep frying
½ C garlic (chopped)
1 C pineapple
¾ C sugar Salt to taste
1-2 C cheese (grated)
Procedure:
1. Rub chicken with fish sauce, white pepper and calamansi juice. Leave to
marinate for at least 15 minutes. Set aside.
2. Heat cooking oil. Fry marinated chicken until golden brown. Drain
excess oil with paper towel.
3. In the used pan, leave 2-3 tbsp of oil. Fry garlic. Add prepared chicken.
4. Pour in pineapple juice. Add sugar and cook until sauce is almost dry.
Season with salt to taste. Add grated cheese and cook until cheese melts.
5. Makes 6-8 servings.
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Ingredients:
1 kg whole chicken (chopped into serving pieces)
¼ C butter
1 C button mushroom
1 C evaporated milk
1 C chicken stock
1 C all-purpose cream
1/3 red bell pepper or pimientos (sliced)
3 tbsp sherry wine (if desired)
2 tbsp flour (as needed)
Procedure:
1. Sauté chicken pieces in butter until they turn white in color.
2. Stir in button mushroom and season. Pour in chicken stock and boil for
10 minutes. Add evaporated milk, simmer for 3 minutes (without boiling).
3. Add all-purpose cream and beaten egg. Stir in bell pepper. Simmer
another 10 minutes,
4. Thicken with flour until the desired consistency of the sauce is achieved
5. Add sherry wine. (if desired) Serve hot. Makes 8-10 serving.
Item 5 3 1
Appearance Prepared dishes are Presentable and Plate and
presented attractively acceptable but garnishing are not
through color lacks professional appropriate the
combination, use of touch. prepared
garnishes and plating
technique
Flavor/Taste With pleasing and Adequate but not Bland/Not
appropriate taste. outstanding taste. appetizing
Texture Chicken meat is all Good texture and Chicken meat is
done in all sides servable to diners. somewhat gummy
Tender enough and or tough.
digestible.
1. ACTIVITIES
VI. LEARNING What are the nutritional roles of poultry in the diet? Why is poultry considered
healthier than red meat?
2. Describe the methods used in cooking poultry dishes?
3. What precautions do you need to take in preparing chicken?
4. Why should we practice safe handling of chicken and poultry?
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VII. ASSIGNMENT
A. Book/Printed Resources
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LAPID, FRANCISCO E. AND SOTTO, EFREN. 2010. How to start your own
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PAWSEY, LINDA. 2000. Folds and Frills. Ann Wilson International Sales.
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RONDILLA AIDA, AVENDANO EMMA, ROQUE ELSA. 2016. Cookery Volume I.
Manila, Philippines
RONDILLA AIDA, AVENDANO EMMA, ROQUE ELSA. 2016. Cookery Volume II.
Manila, Philippines
SUBIDO, RORY C. 2004. Food Service and Catering management. A practical Guide.
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