Chicken liver is a gourmet product, much more tender and healthy than pork or beef. Carefully and skillfully prepared, chicken liver can become not only an everyday dish, but also decorate a festive table.
How to cook chicken liver? Yes, it’s not difficult at all. It is enough to know the basic recipes and vary them, changing the ingredients, composition and spices.
1. First, consider how to cook chicken liver in sour cream.
This is probably the simplest recipe: put a cleaned and washed liver on a hot frying pan, where you first need to pour a little vegetable oil. If the pieces are large, cut them. To prevent oil splashing, the liver can be dried before frying. Fry quickly, stirring from time to time, until a light golden brown. Add the onion sliced in half rings and fry the liver with the onion, reducing the heat to medium. Pepper and salt to taste, sprinkle with spices, put a couple of bay leaves and pour the mixture from a glass of sour cream mixed with half a glass of water (this is 1 kg of liver). Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. A wonderful dish can be eaten with a side dish of pasta, cereals, vegetables. In principle, any side dish will do.
2. If you replace sour cream in the previous recipe with wine (preferably dry red) mixed with water, then the liver becomes a festive dish.
3. The perfect answer to the question "How to cook chicken liver?" is a recipe for pancakes from the liver.
Pass the liver, onion, garlic (for lovers) through a meat grinder or chop in a blender. Salt, pepper - to taste. Add a couple of eggs, 2 tablespoons of flour, knead well and fry in a hot pan, like ordinary pancakes, scooping the mixture with a spoon. Fry on both sides, turning over as ready. These fritters are good both hot and cold. A similar mixture is used to make “shortcakes” for the liver cake, only a larger amount of liver-onion dough is poured onto the pan (it’s good to do this with a ladle), it is leveled and turned over with a spatula as it is ready.
It is possible to interlay and pancakes, fastening them together for 2-3 pieces, and cakes. As a filler, fried onions in large quantities, mixed with mayonnaise, sour cream, garlic, and herbs, are perfect.
To the question "How to cook chicken liver?" we, in principle, answered: fry, stew, grind and again fry. These are basic skills.
Now consider where you can use the liver.
Salads
Liver in salads is a classic of the genre. It is so delicate and fragrant that it goes well with a wide variety of ingredients.
Salad "China"
At the heart are the leaves of Beijing cabbage, which you need to lay out a medium-depth dish. Then spread in layers: green apple (finely chopped or grated). Pour the apple juice over the lemon juice. Next - a layer of fried chicken liver (grams 300-400), on top - onion cut into thin rings or half rings (preferably red), a handful of pine nuts, if not, you can replace a handful of chopped walnuts. Pour everything with salad dressing: 2 tablespoons of vinegar (preferably apple) mixed with 2 salt spoons of vegetable oil (olive is best), salt, pepper - to taste. The preparation of such a salad will not take much time, and the taste is wonderful!
Microwave Chicken Liver
Now many housewives use a microwave for speed and ease of preparation. Let's look at how to cook chicken liver in this appliance, which has already become a familiar thing in the kitchens of the whole world.
Pour the chicken liver with milk so that it is barely covered. Fry onions with carrots, but more. This can also be done using a microwave oven: put chopped onions with carrots in a bowl, add vegetable oil and send to the oven for 1.5 - 3 minutes, depending on capacity. Pull out, mix and set the timer again for 2.5 - 3 minutes. The lighter is ready. Before lunch or dinner, send the frying to the liver with milk, add spices (saffron, turmeric, curry are good), set to full power and bring to a boil (about 3 minutes). Reduce power to medium and cook for 15-20 minutes. The sauce is beautiful, tender, slightly sweet. Garnish - any.
Pate
The chicken liver in pastes is great. The simplest recipe is fried onions with fried carrots and a liver fried over high heat, pass through a meat grinder or blender. Spices to taste. Beat the mixture a little.
Marinades
Pre-pickled chicken liver is cooked in a matter of fractions of a second over very high heat. As a marinade, dry wine is suitable - white and red, various vinegars mixed with spices.
Knowing the basics of "liver cooking", cooking delicious chicken liver is not difficult for any housewife. The main thing is desire, then everything will turn out!