page_title: Gribenes
hierarchical_section_title: Gribenes
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Шкварки, Молдавская кухня English: Cracklings
context_page_description: In Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, gribenes or grieven are crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions. As with other cracklings, gribenes are a byproduct of rendering animal fat to produce cooking fat, in this case kosher schmaltz.
  A favored food in the past among Ashkenazi Jews, gribenes is frequently mentioned in Jewish stories and parables.
  Gribenes can be used as an ingredient in other dishes like kasha varnishkes, Fleishig kugel and gehakte leber.
context_section_description: In Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, gribenes or grieven (Yiddish: גריבענעס‎, [ˈɡrɪbənəs], "scraps"; Hebrew: גלדי שומן‎) are crisp chicken or goose skin cracklings with fried onions. As with other cracklings, gribenes are a byproduct of rendering animal fat to produce cooking fat, in this case kosher schmaltz.
  A favored food in the past among Ashkenazi Jews, gribenes is frequently mentioned in Jewish stories and parables.
  Gribenes can be used as an ingredient in other dishes like kasha varnishkes, Fleishig kugel and gehakte leber.
caption: Chicken gribenes
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