• How to Make Dodo Gizzard or Gizdo

    This dodo gizzard dish has been without a doubt one of the most popular dishes ordered in all my years of catering. It is always a crowd pleaser. The sweetness of the plantain and the crunchiness of the gizzard seems to do an amazing job impressing everyone. It is always the first item on the menu to go. It is typically served as an appetizer at Nigerian weddings or as a side-dish. The ingredients are very accessible world-wide as long as you have a chinatown in your city. Gizzard I find is not typically sold in regular grocery stores depending on how multi-cultural a city is. However, you can easily find chicken gizzard in asian grocery stores. You can choose to make it less spicy by reducing the scotch bonnet peppers you add. Do enjoy this tasty side-dish. 

    Recipe for Dodo Gizzard

    Ingredients

    2 ripe Plantains
    1 cup of Gizzard
    2 large Scotch Bonnet Peppers( Ata Rodo)
    1 seasoning cube
    1 Medium sized Roma Tomato
    1/2 cooking spoon vegetable oil
    1 clove of garlic
    1/2 teaspoon of ginger
    1/4 bulb of onion
    1 cup of chopped bell peppers (green, yellow, red) 
    1.5 teaspoon of salt
    2.5 cups of water
    2 spoons of oil – for frying
    Method
    *Wash the gizzard and season with 1 teaspoon of salt, one large scotch bonnet pepper, 1/8 bulb of Onion and boil with 2.5 cups of water for 20 minutes on medium heat.
    *Peel and dice the ripe plantain, season with ginger and fry.
    *chop the rest of the onions, the roma tomato, the scotch bonnet pepper, green bell pepper and garlic
    *Heat up the vegetable oil, fry the onion and garlic on medium heat for 3 minutes.
    *Fry the chopped roma tomato, bell peppers and the scotch bonnet pepper
    *season with the rest of the salt, seasoning cube and stir in the gizzard.
    *Add the fried plantain and stir in and leave to simmer for 5 minutes.

    Serve warm with Tooth picks 🙂

    This is a popular Nigerian party appetizer dish.

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    18 comments on “How to Make Dodo Gizzard or Gizdo”

    1. Ronnie Reply

      what type of spoons do u mean when u say 2 spoons of oil??? and whats the 2 spoons of oil and the 1/2 cooking spooon of vegetable oil for??? and what do u mean by 1/4 of onion nd then later 1/8 onion? and do you fry the gizzards before stiring it in as u did with the plantains??? because i was told u fry both plantain and gizzards!!

      • Afrolems Reply

        Hi Ronnie, The 2 spoons of vegetable oil are for frying the plantain. The 1/2 cooking spoon is for stir frying the gizzard and dodo. 1/4 bulb of onion is all i used for the recipe. Remember you can modify this to fit your dish. I used half of that to cook the gizzard and half of it to stir fry the final product. I did not fry the gizzard before stirring it in as I was going to fry it in the sauce anyway.

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    7. Opeyemi Reply

      This is my question,what if i want to be selling it,i know i will have to enclose it in a container but wont the Gizdo get spoilt or how can i preserve it?If there is a preservative,tell me.

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