The liver, as you know, is responsible for filtering toxins in the body. But this does not mean that cattle liver should not be eaten. On the contrary, this organ is hematopoietic, and if you want to increase hemoglobin level, and at the same time strengthen immunity, you just need to include the liver in your diet. Beef liver is especially useful. It contains vitamins A, C and B, valuable amino acids (lysine, tryptophan and methionine), as well as minerals such as calcium, copper, sodium and iron. To strengthen the walls of blood vessels and reduce the risk of heart disease, you need to eat liver more often. After all, it contains heparin in large quantities. From beef liver, you can cook a lot of delicious dishes. These are cutlets and pastes. Good liver in fried and stewed. In this article, we will review liver salad recipes. Beef liver has an amazing property to combine with almost all food products. A variety of vegetables, fruits, cheeses, mushrooms, eggs and even fish - all these components will peacefully “coexist” in one salad bowl. Do not believe? Read and try to implement the recipes below to see for yourself. Liver is considered a dietary product. It is low-calorie (only 100 kcal) and does not harm the figure.
Product Preparation
There are many salad recipes in which the main ingredient is beef liver. These dishes can be both cold and warm. In the latter case, the liver is fried and added to the salad just before serving. There are snacks in which all the ingredients are stacked in layers. And finally, there are simple recipes for beef liver salads, where all the ingredients are mixed. But if it is enough to wash and chop vegetables for snacks (or open a jar if they are pickled), then the situation with the liver is not so simple. The liver is sold raw, and we need to prepare it accordingly before introducing it into the dish. Liver is in a transparent bag. And we need to remove this film. With a sharp knife we pry off its edge and pull it away from us, pulling it off a piece of liver like a stocking. Next, you need to cut the bile ducts. If this is not done, the liver will get a bitter taste when cooked. After that, the liver can already be boiled, fried or steamed - depending on what the cooking recipe prescribes.
A simple beef liver salad: a step-by-step recipe
At the first stage, let's deal with the liver. Half a kilogram of offal is thoroughly washed, cleaned from the film. Put in cold water (two-thirds of the volume of the pan). Add salt, a few peas of pepper and two bay leaves. Put the pan on medium heat. As soon as the water boils, we make the flame minimal. We cook the liver until ready for about twenty minutes, constantly catching the resulting foam with a slotted spoon. Beef liver is better than pig, because it does not give bitterness at all. At the second step, we take out the finished liver from the broth and let it cool. Cut into thin strips or rub into large strips.
At the third step, we clean and chop two onions finely. In a pan, heat a mixture of butter and vegetable oils (one tablespoon each). We pass the onion until soft and light golden. We spread it on a dish.
Lightly fried onions and liver are two ingredients that use almost all liver salad recipes. Now we turn to the features of our appetizer.
Further actions
The fourth step is to prepare Dutch cheese. A piece of 200 grams should be rubbed with large chips. Go to the next step. Two hard boiled eggs. We cool them, clean, cut into small cubes. All ingredients can be stacked in a salad bowl. The next stage - we take out two pickled or pickled cucumbers from the can. We cut them into thin slices or straws. Salt the beef liver egg salad, season with black ground pepper, cardamom, nutmeg. As a sauce, the recipe recommends mayonnaise (120 grams). But this fat dressing can just as well be replaced with sour cream or natural yogurt. Mix all the components of the salad. We decorate the dish with finely chopped dill and parsley.
Option 1. With corn
Above, you read the step-by-step basic instructions on how to cook a salad with beef liver. There are many options for this recipe. For example, here is one of them, with canned sweet corn. We prepare liver (400 grams), as in the previous recipe. We also grind it with straws or on a grater. But the onions are replaced with green ones. One hundred grams of feathers cut into a salad bowl. Two hard boiled eggs, clean, cut into pieces. Open a can of corn. We strain the grains from the liquid. For beef liver salad, we need 350 grams of corn. We boil two carrots in their uniforms. We clean them, cut into small cubes. We connect all components. Salt, season with mayonnaise and spices. Serve in portioned bowls covered with lettuce. Garnish with grated cheese.
Option 2. With mushrooms
Corn and carrots are excluded from the list of ingredients, but potatoes and mushrooms or mushrooms are added, as well as some other ingredients. The rich composition of this appetizer can be attributed to the festive salads of beef liver, although it is prepared extremely simply. Half a kilo of liver, we first boil and cut into small pieces. Mushrooms (100 g dry white or 200 g fresh mushrooms) soak or clean. If you want to make a warm salad, get cold ingredients first. Chop three pickles and two onions as small as possible. Catch twenty pitted olives from a can. Cut lime or a small lemon into thin slices. Now let's get into the hot ingredients. Fry the liver slices in vegetable oil. We catch the liver on a plate, and put mushrooms in their place in a pan. Fry until golden. Cook until cooked four eggs and two potatoes in their skins. We clean, cut into cubes. We mix everything, salt, season with mayonnaise. Garnish with lemon slices and olives.
Beef liver puff salad
Such snacks are usually served in a transparent dish so that all layers are visible. We cook in different saucepans a pound of beef liver, three eggs and two potato tubers in their uniforms. Finely chop the large onion and pour boiling water with a teaspoon of sugar. When the water has cooled, we will pour it carefully. While the ingredients for the beef liver salad are cooked, grind one hundred grams of Dutch cheese on a medium grater and chop fresh dill and parsley. For puff snacks, all components are prepared in separate containers. Three potatoes and liver are large, and eggs are small. Now we will put the salad in layers. But first, the dishes in which we will serve the snack, grease with mayonnaise. With this sauce, we will continue to layer each layer. We put the grated liver on the bottom. Next are layers of onions, potatoes, eggs. Once again, grease with mayonnaise, and then decorate the dish with grated cheese and chopped herbs. A puff appetizer also looks good, where potatoes and eggs are laid down, then a layer of cooked chopped carrots goes, and the liver is in the middle.
New Year's salad
A pound of beef liver is boiled, as usual. When the liver has cooled, double-pass it through a meat grinder. From two raw carrots we cut off several circles, which with a sharp knife we turn into stars or flowers. Three onions shred in half rings. The remaining carrots are cut into thin strips. Heat the oil in a pan. We pass the onions with carrots until golden brown. We form the New Year's puff salad with beef liver like this. Lubricate the round bowl with mayonnaise. We put a little liver on the bottom. Tamp, level the layer. We put onions with carrots. Place another layer of liver on top. Turn the bowl over to a flat dish in which we are going to serve the salad. Lubricate the resulting hemisphere with plenty of mayonnaise. We decorate the white field with carrot stars, green onion feathers, figs made of olives and bell pepper, trying to give the salad the appearance of a Christmas tree toy. It is advisable to take a small bowl. Then you have enough ingredients for several toys to decorate them with a "Christmas tree".
Israeli salad
Jewish cuisine is very tasty, and at the same time economical. Let's see how to make a salad with beef liver in Israeli style, or, in other words, how to turn the most basic foods into an exquisite delicacy. Liver (400 grams) clear of films and mine. Boil in the usual way. Cut into pieces two centimeters in size. Fry them in a scanty amount of vegetable oil for five minutes. Add two tablespoons of fat sour cream or 25 percent cream. Mix. Salt the dish, season with spices. We have already told you how to make a warm beef liver salad. An Israeli snack can also be served hot. Prepare cold ingredients in advance. Wash one hundred grams of cherry tomatoes, dry, cut in half. We’ll tear a handful of arugula leaves with our hands. We will prepare one hundred grams of pine nuts. We transfer the beef liver in sour cream from the pan to the dish. Sprinkle with arugula and nuts. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar and serve immediately.
Original holiday salad. Ingredient preparation
At the beginning of our article, we declared that beef liver is combined with almost all food products, including fish. It's time to confirm these words. This delicious beef liver salad will surprise not only you, but also your guests with an amazing combination of ingredients. All our previous recipes began with the words: "boil liver until cooked." We will depart from this rule now. Clean the liver from the films and cut into pieces - like steaks. Sprinkle with spices and dry dill. Cut a couple of cloves of garlic, mix with a few drops of olive oil. The resulting paste rub the steaks on both sides. Pour some refined sunflower oil into the pan. Warm it well and lay the steaks. Fry on full readiness. Liver and outside, and in the middle should acquire a dun. Hard boiled two or three eggs. We clean, rub finely into a separate bowl. In another container, we cut into thin circles four small pickles. Choose crispy vegetables so that they do not stand out a lot of juice. Peel the carrots, wash, finely grate, sprinkle with salt and sugar, let stand for a quarter of an hour. Fried steaks cut into oblong slices. We also grind the salted red fish fillet. We clean the onion, shred in half rings. Fill with boiling water. Let stand, strain. So the bow will get rid of its bitterness. Mix mayonnaise with sour cream in equal proportions. One hundred grams of hard cheese with a chip.
We put the salad
Choose a deep rectangular or square dish of clear glass. We coat each layer of our original beef liver salad with a net of prepared sauce. The first layer is half the liver. Following are pickles. We stir grated carrots on them. Above is a layer of red fish. Sprinkle it with half the onion rings. Spread a layer of grated eggs. Place the remaining liver on top. This time we do not regret the sauce. Coat them with the entire surface of the salad. And finally, at the very top we place the grated cheese.
Very hearty salad with rice
This appetizer may well serve as a full dinner. Especially if you follow the figure. In order to prepare such a salad, boil half a glass of rice cereal of any kind. What's next? We clean three hundred grams of beef liver from the films and boil in salted water with spices until tender. Separately, we cook hard-boiled two eggs. Two onions are chopped into thin half rings. Heat the oil in a pan. Pass the onion until golden. A bunch of dill finely chopped. This beef liver salad is served cold. So we wait until all the ingredients of the dish have cooled to room temperature. Grind the liver on a medium grater, and eggs on a large grater. We begin to put our salad in a transparent dish. Its layers follow in this order (from bottom to top): liver, onion, mayonnaise, rice, sauce net, dill, eggs. For decoration, take mugs of tomatoes, olives or black olives. But we put all this decor on a layer of mayonnaise. We put the salad in the refrigerator for several hours for impregnation.
Braised liver appetizer
Basically, cooked offal is used in recipes for preparing beef liver salads. We saw exceptions to this rule. So it will be in this recipe. We will free 320 grams of liver from the films, cut it into slices, stew in a covered pan until cooked, periodically adding water. When the liver has cooled, salt it and season with spices. We chop the two onions and carrots into strips, fry until golden in butter. Add vegetables to the liver, stew a little more. In a dish we tear lettuce leaves with our hands. Grapes (preferably seedless) are cut in half. Mix everything, salt, season with spices. Sprinkle with olive oil and serve.