Liver, both beef and chicken, is one of the most popular meat offal among people of many countries. Eating a liver is good. The content of necessary substances, proteins and amino acids that are important for the body causes a respectful attitude of nutritionists to this product. From this offal, the condition of ligaments and tendons improves, calcium is better absorbed, the amino acids contained in the liver have a positive effect on the condition of the skin, teeth, and the harmful effects of radiation are reduced. Doctors give chicken liver to babies from six months. Vitamin B12 contained in it helps to get rid of an unpleasant disease - anemia, improves the thyroid gland.
A huge number of different dishes are prepared from the liver for both family and holiday feasts. It is fried and stewed, boiled and baked in the oven, steamed. All guests on holidays are happy to see a liver cake on the table. And what delicious pies with a liver turn out.
The article will focus on the preparation of pancakes from the liver. This dish is prepared quickly, but from this it is no less tasty and healthy. Consider several different recipes, especially popular with experienced chefs. We will also teach the reader to choose the right liver, how to process it so that the taste of the dish does not suffer.
How to determine the freshness of the liver
When choosing an offal for liver fritters, it is best to determine freshness in appearance. Fresh and healthy cow liver should be maroon. The film covering it should be smooth and dense. There should not be any blue or white spots. In the context, the structure of the meat product resembles a sponge. The number of veins should not be too large.
Be sure to smell the product before you buy. The smell of a fresh liver should not be sour. Also take a look so that it is not too wet. Some greedy sellers soak it in a solution so that there is more weight. This is not suitable for pancakes from the liver, since during cooking excess moisture will go into the pan and spoil the whole dish. Take the choice of product responsibly, and then the taste of pancakes will delight all family members.
Beef liver preparation
After buying, you need to rinse the liver, dip it with a paper towel and prepare it. To prepare fritters from beef liver, the offal must be cleaned of the membrane and large vessels.
To do this, the edge of the film is gently poked with a knife and it is torn apart from the sponge mass by pressing it with the inside. When the main film is removed, large vessels are cut out. Then, prepared purified from excess liver is cut into large pieces. The offal will need to be ground in a meat grinder. After proper processing, the knife will not clog and solid pieces will not get into the pancake mass.
Easiest recipe
To prepare liver fritters from beef liver, you need to peel the onion and grind it together with the offal in a meat grinder. For 500 grams of meat product, you need to add 2 chicken eggs to the mass, add 3 large tablespoons of wheat flour. Do not forget to salt and taste the minced meat.
Then with a spoon, everything is mixed until a homogeneous mixture is formed. There should be no lumps of flour in the composition of minced meat.
How to make pancakes from the liver
Vegetable oil is poured into a heated pan to cover the bottom, and the same size pancakes are poured with a large spoon soaked in oil. Fry them over low heat from two sides to a beautiful light brown hue.
Note that in no case should you overcook, as the liver will begin to bitter. On each side, the roast takes only 3 or 4 minutes, so when cooking according to the recipe, pancakes from the liver need not to leave the stove. If you are preparing a dish for a large company, then you need to add oil, and if the pan is covered with small fragments that start to burn, then you need to wash the dishes and pour completely fresh oil.
Pork liver with carrots
Carrots give the dish more softness and juiciness. The liver is prepared according to the same principle, we will not repeat. Additional ingredients are as follows:
- one medium carrot;
- 1 PC. onions;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- 4-5 tablespoons of flour;
- a small pinch of salt (the liver does not like a lot of salt);
- black pepper is added as desired.
For the preparation of minced meat, it is most convenient to use a blender, it will perfectly grind the liver, and onions, and carrots with garlic. Then add flour and egg to the minced meat. Knead with a large spoon to give the mass uniformity. It is best to add flour in small portions. Stuffing should turn out a consistency of thick sour cream. Then the pancakes will spread independently in the pan. If you accidentally threw more flour and the forcemeat turned out to be thick, you can either add one more egg and knead again, or, using a spoon soaked in water, level the forcemeat in the pan to the required size. Fritters should be neither too thin nor too thick.
Semolina recipe
This recipe for beef liver fritters completely does not contain the usual flour for this dish. Instead, decoy is used. First, a prepared beef liver and one onion are ground in a meat grinder.
Then in a bowl with minced meat add 5 tbsp. tablespoons of cereals, 3 eggs of chicken, all salt and pepper to taste. After mixing the ingredients, let the mixture brew a little to soften the groats. Portions of liver dough are poured into a heated pan with a large spoon. After frying on both sides, it is advisable to put the finished pancakes on paper towels so that excess oil is absorbed.
Beef pancakes on kefir
To prepare the next version of the liver pancakes from the liver of a cow you will need:
- a small piece of offal - 150 grams;
- one egg;
- 150 grams of low-fat kefir;
- one raw potato;
- one onion;
- medium carrots;
- 5 large spoons of flour;
- half a teaspoon of soda, quenched in vinegar.
- salt and pepper.
On a blender, grind potatoes and liver. Kefir, one egg and slaked soda are added to the mass. All are mixed. A frying pan is made from chopped onions and chopped carrots. When the passivated vegetables turn golden, they are sent to a common bowl, flour and spices are added. Everything is mixed and the portions for fritters are poured into a preheated frying pan with oil. The result is unusually tender pancakes that are eaten in an instant even by children.
Cooking from chicken liver
These chicken liver pancakes are prepared with mushrooms. It is advisable to take fresh and long-tested store mushrooms. It has already been proven that these are the safest mushrooms for health. For a kilogram of liver you need to take a pound of mushrooms, 4 onions, 2 eggs, 3 large spoons of white flour and spices to taste.
First, let's take care of the mushrooms. Mushrooms are well washed under wastewater and cleaned from the bottom edge of the legs. Sliced mushrooms are poured into the pan and the container is covered with a lid. Do not be afraid that they will burn without oil. Mushrooms instantly release a large amount of water from the heat. Extinguish them until all the water comes out. Then the vegetable oil is poured and the onion chopped into small cubes is poured. Everything is stewed until ready.
The remaining onion is ground in a meat grinder or blender at the same time as the chicken liver. Then the contents are poured into a large bowl and eggs, flour are added, spices are salted and filled. Braised mushrooms with onions also go there. Everything is thoroughly kneaded. Then, according to a method already known to the reader, pancakes are fried in a pan.
Tips for novice housewives
- For children, it’s better to cook chicken pancakes. They turn out more tender and dietetic than beef.
- If you have a lot of time to cook, and you want to surprise your loved ones with the mild taste of the liver, then soak it for half an hour in milk before cooking. Then be sure to blot with a paper towel.
- You can add any additional components to the liver mince - potatoes and carrots, mushrooms and cabbage, zucchini and apples, etc.
- Liver pancakes are cooked very quickly, so do not be distracted from the process, leave the rest to later. On each side of the pancakes is fried no more than 3-4 minutes. Then you need to turn it over.
- Burnt pancakes will be bitter, so don't let that happen.
- Mostly cooking oil is used, but butter can also be taken. Some melt even lard.
- You can add a spoonful of sour cream in the minced meat for softness and tenderness of taste.
The article describes all the main points in the preparation of liver pancakes from beef, pork and chicken. Serve them to the table with any side dish, herbs, stewed onions or any sauce (mayonnaise, ketchup, adjika). Cook for the joy of your family, surprise them with new recipes!