It is no secret that the liver is very useful. From it you can cook a lot of varied and delicious dishes. However, the most popular is the liver cake. It does not take much time to prepare, the recipe is quite simple, and the taste of the dish is fantastic. But before you prepare the liver cake, you need to decide on the recipe and ingredients. After all, today there are a lot of variations of this dish!
How to cook a liver cake: recipe number 1
Only chicken liver should be used in this dish. It is quite delicate in taste, but moody during processing. Therefore, you should be very careful!
To prepare you will need:
- 600 gr. chicken liver;
- 125 gr. nonfat sour cream;
- 2 eggs;
- 125 gr. mayonnaise;
- 2 onions and carrots;
- garlic, salt, spices and a little flour.
Stages of preparation:
Just before you prepare the liver cake, you need to prepare the main ingredient. Dry and clean the chicken liver, dry and roll in a meat grinder. You can use a blender.
- Add sour cream and a little flour to the liver stuffing, season with salt and spices. Pour in whipped eggs. The dough in its consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
- Now thin liver pancakes should be fried in a heated pan.
- Peel and chop onions and carrots. Fry in butter with garlic, spices, salt and fresh herbs to taste. Once the onions and carrots are cooked, cool and season the filling with mayonnaise.
- It remains only to think about how to make a liver cake - in the form of a circle, a square, or come up with your own shape? Each pancake is coated with filling and put on the previous one.
- The finished cake can be decorated with olives or boiled grated eggs. Do not forget about fresh herbs.
- There is also a simpler way to prepare a liver cake: all the above ingredients, with the exception of flour, are added to the minced meat, everything is thoroughly whipped and baked in a refractory form in the oven. For piquancy, pre-boiled quail or chicken eggs can be hidden in the minced meat before cooking.
How to cook a liver cake: recipe number 2
A slightly unusual cake recipe, which will be a great addition to the festive table, includes cod liver as a basis.
To prepare you will need:
- 5 ready-made waffle cakes (not sweet);
- 4 eggs;
- cod liver (pollock) in oil 2 pack;
- some mayonnaise;
- hard cheese;
- shallot.
Stages of preparation:
- Before you prepare a liver cake, you need to tackle the main ingredient. Put cod liver or pollock in a bowl and knead.
- Rub the cheese, do the same with the eggs. Finely chop the onion.
- Put a layer of liver on the cake, sprinkle with cheese and onions, cover with the next cake and repeat.
- It is recommended to alternate the layers, in one embodiment it is a liver with onions, in the second - a liver, cheese and greens. Mayonnaise and spices must be added to each filling variation.
- Decorate the finished cake with cheese and eggs, with the addition of green onions.
Do not be afraid to experiment and show imagination in the process of preparing delicious homemade food, then your guests and loved ones will look forward to a new culinary masterpiece.