Dishes from turkey liver: recipes, photos

Today's article is about turkey liver dishes . This product is both tasty and healthy. From it you can cook a lot of things - fry and stew, make stew and meatballs, pate and even cake.

The liver is tasty, fragrant and healthy. She's getting ready quickly. Recipes with photos of turkey liver dishes will be presented below.

But first, choose a good product. Liver slices should be smooth, their structure should be homogeneous, and their aroma should be fresh. It is better not to take offal with blood clots.

The principles of preparation and the benefits of the liver

In general, turkey liver dishes are prepared in much the same way as chicken. But in the reviews, gourmets assure that the first come out much tastier. Such a liver is more expensive. However, the money you pay for it is quite justified. The turkey liver is larger, it is more convenient to wash it, and at the same time, juice and other useful substances with water do not go away.

Many housewives believe that this is just the perfect offal for cooking. The nutritional properties of turkey liver are higher than that of chicken. It has a lot of protein, vitamin C, so dishes prepared from it increase immunity.

It contains other useful trace elements. Vitamin A strengthens vision, has a good effect on the condition of the skin, hair and nails.

With regular use, turkey liver will help fight anemia. And the vitamin E that it contains is a natural antioxidant and rejuvenates the body.

Classic version: fried offal

Recipes of turkey liver dishes, as already mentioned, can be different. But we will start with the simplest, requiring a minimum set of products. To prepare a classic liver with onions, we need only onions, flour and vegetable oil. Choose spices to taste. Well, of course, first of all, we will need about a kilogram of the liver itself.

1. As housewives usually do in such cases, it is necessary to prepare an offal - to clean it of film, veins and other inedible things. Then the liver is washed and dried with paper towels.
2. Pour a few tablespoons of flour mixed with pepper into a plastic bag. Put the liver there and remember well that the offal is evenly bunded.
3. Pour the vegetable oil into a preheated pan. Wait until it gets hot. Then add the liver slices breaded in flour.
4. Fry offal for 3-4 minutes, turning. Salt at the very end.
5. Fry the onion separately and then add it to the liver. Keep both products together under a lid so that they are saturated with each other's aromas.

Rice, mashed potatoes, and pasta are suitable for such a dish. They will well set off his piquancy.

In flour and egg

Alternatively, you can cook fried liver in batter. In this case, offal slices (half a kilo) are slightly beaten with a hammer, salt and pepper at the very beginning.

Then batter is prepared - 4 eggs are mixed, 3 tablespoons of sour cream, 1 - mustard, a little flour. You can add water or milk if the mixture is thick.

It is also worth salt and season. Pieces dipped in batter and fry in vegetable oil in a hot pan until cooked.

In sour cream

According to most reviews, this is the most delicious turkey liver dish. At the same time, it will not take you a lot of time to prepare it.

1. Pre-washed and dried liver cut into portions.
2. Pour them with a glass of liquid cream and leave for half an hour.
3. Cut the onion into half rings.
4. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Roll pieces of liver in flour and fry until golden brown.
5. Pour the onion into the pan, cover.
6. Pour there a glass of sour cream, simmer for about a quarter of an hour.

Cutlets

If you want to surprise home and friends with delicious turkey liver dishes, this is the most interesting option. But to make it tasty, you also need to add ground bird fillet to the offal.

The ratio of ingredients is approximately the following: 200 grams of meat is consumed per 500 grams of liver. They are washed, dried, and then crushed. You can use a meat grinder or blender for this purpose.

A bunch of parsley and onion chop very finely. Grate two carrots. Fry all vegetables in vegetable oil and add to the minced liver and fillet. Drive 2-3 eggs in there.

Form cutlets from the resulting mass. Fry them in a frying pan, after pre-roll in flour or breading. Then put it in a stewing dish. Add some wine and warm.

Then pour in 100 grams of liquid cream. Stew for another 5 minutes. Cutlets come out juicy and fragrant.

Pate

Another interesting dish from turkey liver is tender mousse. Often it is cooked together with mushrooms, which gives the paste an indescribable aroma. This dish is somewhat more complicated than the previous ones, but if you follow the recipe, everything will work out.

1. Clear 600 grams of liver from film and veins.
2. Wash and chop 250 g of any mushrooms.
3. Chop the onion.
4. In a special “crush”, chop 4 cloves of garlic.
5. Finely chop a bunch of greens.
6. 2 hard boiled eggs.
7. Fry onions in 2 tablespoons of butter.
8. Add mushrooms, garlic and herbs to the pan. Fry until the mushrooms have a golden hue and a crust appears on them.
9. Put the whole liver in boiling water and cook for 7-8 minutes.
10. Put fried mushrooms with onions and spices in a blender. Add boiled liver, 60 grams of olive oil, spices. Grind everything to a consistency of mashed potatoes.
11. Cool the paste. Now it can be served and used to make sandwiches.

Salad

From this offal for an appetizer, not only pastes are prepared. Here, for example, is the recipe for the “Flying” salad from turkey liver. He is satisfying and economical.

1. Take a pound of good liver. We clean, cut, rinse. Cook for about 20 minutes with spices and salt.
2. The by-product must be allowed to cool. Then grate it coarsely.
3. We cut 200 grams of champignons in plates and fry in a small amount of vegetable oil in a pan. When the mushrooms are covered with a golden brown, transfer them to a plate.
4. Rub onion and carrot coarsely. Then fry them in a pan. After that, put it on a paper towel to stack excess fat.
5. Getting to the salad. He will come out with us flaky. Therefore, we take a flat plate. We spread the grated liver mixed with 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise around.
6. The second layer is placed onions and carrots.
7. We also mix fried mushrooms with a spoon of mayonnaise. Spread the third layer.
8. 100 grams of hard cheese (it can also be processed), gently rub. Mix with two tablespoons of mayonnaise and spread on mushrooms.
9. Hard-boiled three eggs and cool. Grind and mix with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise. Spread the last layer.
10. Now we take pickled cucumber, cut into thin plates and lay our salad on the sides to make it look elegant. Decorate with herbs and crumbs of boiled yolks.

This salad should be infused in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Cake

A beautiful appetizer for the festive table is this dish of turkey liver. It can also be made for a child - children like the “cake” shape. Often such an appetizer is made from cow's liver. But turkey is lighter and more tender, it is better absorbed by the body. This cake is perfect for the New Year.

1. First take 2 onions and carrots. Grind them. It is better to grate the carrots coarsely, and cut the onions in half rings.
2. Fry the chopped vegetables in a hot frying pan in oil for 4-5 minutes.
3. Prepare half a kilo of liver, as described above, then pass through a meat grinder.
4. Drive 2-3 eggs into the minced meat, salt and pepper.
5. Add 100 grams of flour and milk there. Mix well so that there are no lumps. Stuffing should be a homogeneous semi-liquid mass.
6. Preheat the pan, pour a spoonful of vegetable oil. Put the minced meat ladle, flatten and bake like a pancake. Each side needs to be fried for 1-2 minutes.
7. Bake liver pancakes from whole minced meat.
8. In a separate bowl, mix 200 grams of mayonnaise with 3 crushed cloves of garlic and chopped herbs.
9. Now you should collect the cake. To do this, lay out each pancake on a dish, grease with sauce and put on top a layer of fried carrots and onions.
10. Cover with the next pancake and repeat the whole process. Then we decorate the cake and keep it in the refrigerator to soak well.

Recipes of dishes from turkey liver in a slow cooker

With the help of modern devices, the cooking process is accelerated. In addition, thanks to them you can decide on culinary experiments. For example, cook stewed liver with vegetables.

1. We prepare an offal for heat treatment - we clean, wash, remove everything unnecessary.
2. Shred the onion in half rings.
3. 3 strong tomatoes wash and cut into cubes.
4. We remove seeds from one large paprika. We also cut it into cubes.
5. Pour two tablespoons of olive oil into the multicooker bowl. Turn on the "Frying" mode.
6. Warm the oil for 5-6 minutes.
7. Now put the liver in the bowl and fry it for a quarter of an hour. Do not forget to constantly interfere and turn. Solim is only at the very end, otherwise it will harden. Disable the "Frying" function.
8. Pour chopped vegetables into the bowl. Fill with water, mix. We activate the "Extinguishing" mode.
9. Cover and simmer for about an hour.
10. After 45 minutes, pour 100 grams of liquid cream into the bowl. Continue to simmer another quarter of an hour.
11. Then add spices and keep the dish under the lid for another 10 minutes with the functions turned off, so that it is well infused.

In principle, everything that is usually made from bovine liver can be prepared from this product. But there is a secret here. Dishes from turkey liver - diet. They do not contain too much cholesterol. Therefore, you can cook your favorite dishes and not be afraid of health problems, with the stomach or being overweight.