A slow cooker is a unique device that was invented just for those who are not good at cooking. With its help, you can cook anything. For example, an ordinary pork heart in a slow cooker without much effort turns into an original and very tasty dish. Moreover, this can be done in different ways.
Goulash for the lazy
Cooking a pork heart in a slow cooker is not difficult, since this product itself is very convenient in cooking. Due to the special structure of the tissue and the large amount of internal fat it can be extinguished even without prior preparation. To make a delicious pork heart in a slow cooker, it will take some time and a minimum of effort. In addition, you need to collect the following products on your desktop: pork heart weighing 1 kilogram, 2 carrots, 2 tomatoes, 1 sweet pepper, salt, 2 large onions, bay leaf, a bunch of parsley, 5 peas of allspice, 30 grams of tomato paste and tea spoon mixture of provence herbs.
The dish is prepared as follows:
- First, the offal should be slightly soaked in water, and then remove the outer film from it. Cut the remaining flesh into pieces.
- Cut onion and pepper into medium sized cubes, and chop the tomatoes and carrots on a coarse grater. Parsley can be simply chopped finely with a knife.
- All components according to the recipe put in a slow cooker.
- Cover and set the quenching mode.
To prepare the dish you will need no more than two hours. This time will be enough so that the vegetables turn into a great sauce, and the heart is saturated with unique aromas of spices.
Simple and delicious
Itβs even easier to cook a pork heart in a slow cooker with sour cream. To work, you will need the simplest ingredients: 300 grams of pork heart, a glass of water, 50 grams of fresh onions and carrots, a little salt, 25 grams of sour cream and a little black pepper.
The whole process consists of several simple operations:
- First of all, the heart should be washed thoroughly, and then cut into pieces.
- Onions and carrots can be simply finely chopped, without using additional accessories.
- Collect all products in a multicooker bowl.
- Pour water there, add sour cream and other spices.
- The dish is cooked for one hour in the "stew" mode. No additional action is required.
You can spend your free time preparing a side dish. For this dish, mashed potatoes or boiled pasta are perfect. Here everyone makes a choice depending on their own food preferences. In addition, a heart stewed in sour cream belongs to the category of low-calorie dishes. Therefore, for him there are no prohibitions regarding the possibility of use.
Juicy Cutlets
To cook a pork heart in a slow cooker, you can come up with recipes yourself or use the well-known options. For example, aromatic and very juicy cutlets are obtained from such an offal. To prepare them you need:
500 grams of pork heart, 2 onions, a small piece of bacon, 1 egg, 3 cloves of garlic, 50 grams of semolina, some crackers, salt, milk and pepper.
Cutlets are prepared as follows:
- First, crackers should be soaked for 10 minutes in milk so that they swell properly. At the end, they must be wrung out so that excess moisture does not get into the stuffing.
- Washed and chopped into pieces chop the heart in a meat grinder.
- Do the same with bacon, onion, garlic and breadcrumbs.
- Collect products in one container.
- Beat the egg in, add the remaining ingredients and knead the homogeneous forcemeat.
- Pour a little vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and set the βbakingβ mode.
- From the meat just cooked, form cutlets, bread them in breadcrumbs, and then fry until a characteristic crust appears.
- Turn the blank on the other side, and put a small piece of butter on top of each of them.
Ready-made cutlets can be eaten immediately with or without a side dish.
Offal vegetable stew
There is another interesting option on how to cook a pork heart in a slow cooker. To do this, you can take a mixture of different offal and vegetables available in the house. To prepare such a dish, you can use the following components:
300 grams of pork heart, liver and lung, carrots, 2 onions, 4 fresh tomatoes, salt, bay leaf and any spices.
To prepare such a stew in a slow cooker you need:
- Wash offal well and then cut into medium sized pieces.
- Vegetables can be chopped at random. Everyone in this regard may have their own ideas.
- All products are loaded into the multicooker.
- Close the lid tightly and set the βquenchingβ mode on the panel.
To prepare such a dish will take an hour and a half. After that, it can be laid out in deep plates and served to the table, watering with a juicy broth, which was formed during the stew. The stew is juicy, soft and very fragrant. A side dish is not required in this case.