Among salads for everyday and festive tables, meat salads occupy a special position, as they combine good taste and a pleasant appearance. At the same time, they allow you to preserve a feeling of satiety for a long time, saturate the body with such proteins, trace elements and vitamins necessary for normal work.
Meat salads also include offal dishes. Introducing some interesting liver salad recipes. The photos presented in the article will clearly demonstrate how they will look on your table, and step-by-step explanations of the cooking process will help even an inexperienced chef to cope with this task faster.
The choice of the main ingredient
To make the liver dish tasty, it is important not only to prepare this product correctly, but also to buy one that meets the quality standards. Many shops and supermarkets sell frozen liver, pouring it with water to give more weight. When defrosting, such an offal loses most of its taste, turning into rubber during cooking.
Therefore, it is recommended to buy a chilled liver without obvious signs of icing. When choosing different types of this product should be guided by its features:
- Chicken liver. The fresh product has a brown color, possibly with a beetroot tint. If the liver is light, yellowish or too dark, then it is stale. You should not buy it. If there are greenish spots on the surface, the product will be bitter.
- Beef liver has the appearance of boiled beets. If she has a grayish or orange-brick shade, then the animal was sick. In fresh beef liver, the film on top of it is easily detached. If not, it means that the product has been waiting for its buyer for too long.
- Pork liver should be maroon with gloss. If it is dull and sticky to the touch, the product is stale. It is important to carefully examine the film. If there are bubbles on it, most likely the product is infected with worms. You should refuse to buy, because you can infect the whole family.
Not all liver salad recipes indicate that it is better to soak this offal before cooking in milk or water, slightly flavored with soda (you can also use mustard) to remove excess bitterness. Then the dish will have a delicate taste without the specific shade inherent in the liver.
Elegant salad with pomegranate
Such a salad recipe with chicken liver can be not only a wonderful decoration of the festive table, but also a dietary dish for every day, as it is low-calorie and contains a lot of fiber. To prepare it, you should take:
- 400 grams of pre-boiled chicken liver.
- Two apples of the Golden variety.
- A large bunch of green salad (about 50 grams).
- A handful of pomegranate seeds.
- 2 tbsp. l peeled pine nuts.
- 60 grams of butter and as much olive.
- 2 tbsp. l cognac.
- 1.5 tsp cane sugar.
- 1 tbsp. l wine vinegar.
- 1 tsp honey.
Cooking
The liver should be pre-boiled, cooled and cut into large pieces (3-4 cm long). No need to make the pieces too small, as this product crumbles when mixing the finished salad with the liver, which will significantly spoil the appearance of the dish. Rinse the greens under running water and dry between two paper towels, lightly pine nuts in a dry frying pan until the color changes slightly. Remove apples from the core and cut them into slices 1-1.5 cm thick. In the bowl, mix honey, vinegar and olive oil - this is salad dressing, it should be a little infused. Warm the butter in a frying pan, the fire should be small so that the oil does not smoke.
Place apples there and fry, stirring for several minutes. Sprinkle with sugar, mix again. When the apples begin to change their color, add to them the chicken liver, cognac and keep on fire until the liquid evaporates. Turn off the fire. In a wide bowl, place the salad, torn into pieces of medium size, lay the liver with apples on top, sprinkle with pine nuts and pomegranate seeds. Pour salad dressing with chicken liver. Using two tablespoons, mix the finished dish lightly. Serve immediately while the liver is still warm.
Bachelor Supper Salad with mayonnaise
Those who prefer a simpler and more satisfying option can use the liver and carrot salad recipe with mayonnaise dressing. This dish is prepared very quickly, can be eaten cold. It is ideal as a snack at work. To prepare such a dish, you must have in stock:
- 0.5 kg of liver. It must be poured with water so that the liquid only covers the product, and boil for 10 -15 minutes over medium heat, and then recline in a colander and let cool. Cut into medium cubes.
- 350 grams of fresh champignons. They must be cut into slices and fry in three tablespoons of vegetable oil until a slight blush.
- Boil five eggs to a steep state, cool, peel and cut into small cubes together with three pickled cucumbers.
Mix all prepared ingredients in one dish, add salt to taste and 1/3 tsp. black pepper. Season the salad with mayonnaise (about 4 tbsp.), Mix well again and let stand for half an hour so that the components of the dishes exchange taste.
Beef liver salad with fried onions
Another recipe for a simple salad, which even a teenager can cook. The feature of this salad with liver is fried vegetables. Therefore, it can be used as a separate warm dish (for lunch or dinner). When cold, this is a regular meat salad as a complement to the main course. To prepare it, you will need only three ingredients: liver (500 grams), onions (2 pcs.) And carrots (1 pc.), As well as mayonnaise as a dressing.
The liver must be boiled in a whole piece, because this way it stores more vitamins and minerals, and after cooling, cut into small sticks and lightly fry in a pan, adding two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Transfer the product to a salad bowl.
Chop the onion into thin strips and fry in the remaining oil until transparent, add the grated carrots to it and hold on the fire for another three to four minutes. Vegetables should become soft, but not fried. Put them in the liver, salt, pepper to taste preferences and add mayonnaise. Stir the prepared salad with the liver and onions. It can be served immediately to the table.
Royal Puff Salad
Puffed types of salads have long taken pride of place on holiday tables. There can be several varieties at the same time. Most of these dishes have similar ingredients: meat base, potatoes, carrots and cheese with eggs. We offer unusual and very interesting in its taste salad from the liver. A ready-made photo of this dish is presented below. With the help of the Royal salad, you can diversify the menu and decorate the festive table in an original way. To prepare it you will need:
- 600 grams of liver (pork or beef).
- 350 - 400 grams of crab sticks.
- 8 eggs.
- 2 red onions.
- 4 tbsp. l vinegar.
- 2 tbsp. l cold water for marinade.
- 1 can of canned corn.
- 300 grams of hard cheese.
- 150 - 200 grams of mayonnaise.
This amount of ingredients is designed for two large salad bowls. If this is a lot for you, you can halve the proportions.
Ingredient preparation
Before you start spreading a layer of salad with a liver, forming a finished dish, it is necessary to do the initial processing of the components. First of all, you need to boil the liver in a small amount of water, having not previously forgotten to remove the upper film and veins of the bile ducts. If you soak the product in milk for an hour before cooking, and then rinse and boil, it will turn out to be much more tender and juicier. The liver is boiled for about 60 minutes, but it is better to check the readiness by piercing it with a fork to the middle. If pink juice stands out in this case, you need to boil more.
Cool the finished offal by draining the water, and then cut into small cubes or grate on the largest grater. Cut the peeled onions into four parts and finely chop. Pour them with a mixture of vinegar and water for forty minutes, in order to remove the bitterness and give the slices an original flavor. Eggs need to be boiled for at least eight minutes and cut into neat cubes of medium size. Pre-thawed crab sticks cut into halves along, and then into pieces 0.5 cm thick.
How to lay salad
To make the cooked dish harmonious in taste, the layers in it must be placed in the correct order. In this salad with a liver, they should be arranged in the following order:
- Liver.
- Pickled onion. It should be squeezed slightly, and only then placed on the liver.
- Chopped eggs.
- Crab sticks.
- Canned corn.
- Cheese chopped with a grater.
On each layer, you need to draw a thick mesh with mayonnaise so that the components of the salad are well saturated. It is better to cook it a couple of hours before serving, so that the ingredients have enough time to soak. To make this salad look even more original, finely chopped green onions can be sprinkled on top of the cheese. In our photo, it is located in the center of the dish, but it can be done differently, for example, along the edge.
Cod Liver Salad
Puff salad can be prepared from the liver of not only birds or pigs, but also cod. This product is very high-calorie that you need to consider for those who monitor their weight. According to the recipe, for a salad from the liver of a sea fish for two persons, one should take the following proportions:
- 150 hard cheese. It must be grated. This will be the first layer of salad, which is laid out in a flat salad bowl.
- Cut 150 grams of cod liver with a knife into small pieces and place on cheese, flatten with a fork.
- Thinly chop a small bunch of green onions and cover them with the liver. You need to try to chop it very finely.
- Cut 200 grams of boiled “in jacket” potatoes into small cubes and make another layer of it.
- Cover the potato with a layer of mayonnaise, and on top distribute one pickled cucumber on it: you can cut it into strips or slices - the taste will not suffer. It should be noted that this is the last layer, so it should look attractive.
Such a puff salad with liver takes time to soak, so it is recommended to put it in the refrigerator for an hour. Only then can the dish be served to guests.
Therapeutic salad to increase hemoglobin
Food should be not only tasty, but also healthy. Therefore, it is advisable to include in your diet products that give the body all the most valuable. With this function, salads from the liver do an excellent job. The recipe for the next dish is very simple. Its peculiarity is that it nourishes the hematopoietic system well, therefore it is recommended for those who are prone to anemia, as well as pregnant women. The composition of the salad includes:
- Two eggs.
- Two beets.
- 500 grams of liver.
- Three onions.
- 100 grams of mayonnaise.
- A little black pepper.
- Salt to taste.
For the preparation of this salad, it is recommended to use only beef liver, since it is it that is most rich in essential trace elements that stimulate the process of increasing hemoglobin in the blood.
How to cook
The first step is to boil the beets whole until cooked. Next, we boil the liver until half ready, freeing it from films and veins. It should have a slightly pinkish tint, which indicates that the desired condition of the product is achieved. Still warm liver needs to be cut into bars and fry in a small amount of vegetable oil until a slight blush. Put in a bowl.
In a pan in the same oil, fry the onion sliced into thin circles until soft. He will give the dish the necessary sweetness and a special piquant taste. Put it on the liver, salt and lightly sprinkle with pepper. On top of the onions put boiled beets, chopped into strips and pour with mayonnaise, distributing it evenly throughout the salad. Cut boiled eggs into small pieces (the yolk can be mashed with a fork) and sprinkle with mayonnaise on top.
In the process of preparation, the salad resembles a little layered, but this does not need to be emphasized, since before serving it needs to be slightly mixed, removing the boundary of the layers. This salad is quite tasty, despite the unusual ingredients that are rarely used in this combination. If you add 150 grams of hard cheese, crushed on a grater to such a dish, then it will significantly change. It will become not just useful, but very attractive in appearance, so it can decorate the holiday table. To make it even more original, you can sprinkle it on top of chopped parsley. This delicious salad with liver will take its place among your favorite dishes in your cookbook.
With champignons
It is a very easy to prepare and delicious salad. His recipe is taken from French cuisine. We will need these products:
- Mushrooms - 250 g.
- Liver (beef) - 200 g.
- 2 onion heads.
- Mayonnaise - 120 g.
- Parsley is a small bunch.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
- Salt to taste.
- Ground pepper (it is better to take black) - to taste.
You can cook this salad in 20 minutes. First you need to wash the liver and boil it for 10 minutes. Until it comes to readiness, it is necessary to chop the onion. Peel the champignons, cut into thin slices and fry in oil. Cool the boiled liver slightly, cut into cubes. Pour oil into a pan, put onion and liver. Fry until the onion gains a slightly golden color. Place mushrooms and liver with onions in the bowl. To salt. Spice up. Add mayonnaise. Mix. Garnish with chopped parsley.