Chicken Chick

Question

I'm a trainer certain chicken company and I show people how to cut chicken. Although I've been looking around for the name of the certain part of the chicken which is the tenders and I cant find what it is in Spanish. Can someone help?

Welcome to SpanishDict, Ladybrooks. - rac1, Jul 2, 2017

Thank you and hello. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for:

solomillo de pollo (tenderloin of chicken)

This is not just a slice of chicken breast meat. It is a small piece of breast meat, one per each half of breast, which is the most tender (and expensive) part of the chicken breast.

I think the technical term of this in English is chicken breast tenderloin, but sometimes they are sold as chicken breast tenders.

Other things are also sold as chicken tenders, which many other places call chicken fingers. These may be strips from anywhere on the breast or even be made from ground chicken or reconstituted chicken that may include dark meat and may even contain some skin and fat and binding agents (chemicals)

I used to work for a food chemical company which produced phosphates for treating meats, seafood, cheese and other foods for many purposes (some very worthwhile). One of the not so nice reasons was so that the producers could combine cheaper cuts and even add more water and other cheap fillers and sell it for $4-6 per pound.

A chicken breast on the left. A chicken breast tenderloin on the right.

THank you. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Answer 2

According to Daniela's description of "tenders", I could say that in my country we can buy chicken breasts filled in with different things depending on the manufacturer or slaughterhouse I've heard of olives, eggs, even ground chicken, bacon or other things. They are usually at least middle sized but definitely not small. Most people call them "arrollado de pollo".
We can also buy "miniaturas de pollo", which are very small .These are not filled but breaded and pre-fried. For all the other small parts of the chicken like wings, neck or others we call them "menudos de pollo".

I tried to see the photo on the Internet and they are like "milanesas de pollo". Big pieces of chicken salted and condimented and with a crust of egg and breaded outside and not stuffed.
Definitely it the photos are ok, milanesas de pollo

No. Not strips of chicken breast. Tenders are a separate meat attached to the chest bone right behind the breast. Thank you though. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Answer 3

I know that they have wings legs, internal organs like heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, etc, but they don't have "tenders" This is an English word describing small formed pieces of chicken breast usually filled in with rib meat.

In Spanish these are called "dedos" or "ofertas" de pollo.

My 5 cents: Tiritas de pollo o pechuga picada :) - 00376109, Jul 2, 2017

Inflation is sad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents. :) - bosquederoble, Jul 2, 2017

¿No ven uds. que ella nos está tomando el pelo? She says she's trains people how to cut chicken, and she cant find the name of the part which is the "tenders" Geez!! - Daniela2041, Jul 2, 2017

Me perdí el chiste. ¿Cuál es la tomadura de pelo? - polenta1, Jul 2, 2017

She probably doesn't know English very well. She may be from another country. - rac1, Jul 2, 2017

Actually they do! They are located right behind the breast. I'm trying to find the name for it in Spanish thank you. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Strips of white meat can pass as tenders but tenders are in fact a piece of meat separate from the breast. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Answer 4

Per Wikipedia:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiras_de_pollo

Las tiras o palitos de pollo (también llamadas en inglés fingers, ‘dedos’ y tenders, ‘tiernos’) son un estilo de pollo frito que solo incluye pollo, sin huesos ni piel.

from the English side:

Chicken fingers, also known as chicken tenders, chicken goujons, chicken strips or chicken fillets, are chicken meat prepared from the pectoralis minor muscles of the animal.[citation needed] These strips of white meat are located on either side of the breastbone, under the breast meat, sometimes just pulverized chicken flesh. (pectoralis major).1[2] They may also be made with similarly shaped pieces cut from chicken meat, usually the breast

This is very useful. I hear Spanish speaking coworkers use ALL of these thank you. - Ladybrooks, Jul 2, 2017

Answer 5

Hello!

Here are the links relating to your question:

• Spanishdict article from 2008
• wordreference

Hope this helps.

Regards!

Answer 6

Well I found it! I wasn't entering the correct English name which would be tenderloin instead of tender, which is what we usually say thank you all!