Not everyone likes liver dishes. To someone it seems a bit dry, to someone it does not like the specific aftertaste. Meanwhile, it is no secret to anyone that this offal is useful, especially for children, mature people, and those who are weakened after surgery or illness. Therefore, the liver cake from Alla Kovalchuk will be useful to all caring mothers and wives: it is so tasty that even the most capricious people eat it with appetite. Delicate taste and airy structure appeal to everyone.
Cooking Pancakes
In order for the liver cake from Alla Kovalchuk to succeed, you need to correctly make the cakes of which it will consist. The author of the recipe recommends for them to take a calf’s liver, 600 grams, and lower it for five minutes in hot water. Then a surface film is removed from it, the offal is cut and disposed of from the veins. Liver pieces are scrolled twice with a meat grinder; before the second time, a spoonful of vegetable oil is poured into the mass - for complete homogeneity. Four eggs are combined with half a liter of medium-fat milk and melted creamy-vegetable mixture (20 g). A glass of flour is roasted in a dry frying pan. Both that and another gradually, in portions is entered into forcemeat. The result should be a substance similar in density to sour cream. It is seasoned with Adyghe salt. The “dough” is poured with a ladle, like a pancake, just a little thicker, and fried on both sides until browned.
Filling and assembly
This liver cake is with carrots and onions, which must be prepared in advance. Four onions are finely chopped and allowed to soften, after which 4 carrots, grated coarsely, are added to them. Joint stewing lasts about seven to ten minutes, after which the vegetables are filtered off from water and excess oil.
It remains to assemble the liver cake “From Alla Kovalchuk” into a single whole. To do this, each cake is smeared with mayonnaise (preferably homemade), on which a filling layer is placed. To the edge of the cake, the mass should not reach somewhere by a centimeter. The top “pancake” is smeared with whole mayonnaise, decorated, and the impregnation facility is hidden in the refrigerator for an hour.
Liver cake: a delicious recipe with an unusual filling
Use only the described filling is not necessary. You can, for example, use mushrooms, fried until cooked and ground. But it’s much more interesting to make spicy jelly from currants for the “cream”.
The liver cake from Alla Kovalchuk is taken as the basis: “shortcakes” are made according to her recommendations. For the filling, you need to squeeze the juice from the berries - it will need a glass. A tablespoon of gelatin is poured with a small volume of water (cold) and set aside until swelling. Juice is mixed with finely ground spices: cardamom, red hot pepper, cinnamon and allspice. Take all the spices in a third of a spoon. Gelatin blooms to smoothness on the smallest fire, gently pours into juice, mixes. Plates are taken with a diameter equal to your “pancakes”. A mixture is poured over them and cleaned in the cold until it congeals. When assembling a cake, each cake is thinly smeared with mayonnaise, and a layer of spicy jelly is gently placed on top.