Cooking chicken hearts in many housewives causes not the best emotions: “What kind of food! Fuss a lot - it’s not much use! ” Such statements, to put it mildly, are not true. Chicken hearts make wonderful dishes. You just need to be able to cook them correctly.
No. 1 - Hearts in sour cream
Fry the onion (half-ring) in a pan until golden, add the washed hearts and cut into 2-4 parts chicken hearts, mix, reduce heat and simmer under the lid, you can add a little water so that the dish does not burn. Almost at the complete readiness of the hearts, salt, pepper, add about half a tablespoon of flour, sour cream, a slice of butter and a little more stew. Any side dish is suitable for this dish - pasta, cereals, rice and so on.
Before frying with onions, you can put hearts in cold water and bring to a boil, and only then put them in a frying pan to the fried onion. Cooking time is reduced.
For lovers of tomato: when adding sour cream, you can add ketchup, tomato or any tomato sauce. It also works out very well.
When replacing sour cream with cream, the usual recipe for chicken hearts also changes: the hearts become tender and melt in your mouth. In this case, ground ginger is an excellent seasoning .
No. 2 - recipe for chicken hearts in sour cream with variations
With almost complete readiness of hearts prepared according to the recipe No. 1, add Korean carrots and well-fried champignons, simmer. Very tasty and unusual!
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While preparing hearts according to the recipe No. 1, prepare the eggplants: peel the eggplants, cut into cubes, add salt and leave for a while to let out all the bitterness (15 minutes is enough with the head), fry in vegetable oil - slightly and add to the hearts with sour cream. Stew for 5 minutes.
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A wonderful and unusual modification of the usual recipe is obtained by adding finely chopped pickles to practically prepared hearts in sour cream, after which the dish is stewed for another 5 minutes.
No. 3 - Chicken Heart Pudding
A very unusual recipe for chicken hearts, the idea of which belongs to Larisa Rubalskaya, however, she used other ingredients.
Pour a glass of semolina with water (2 glasses) and set aside. 2 large onions, fry in vegetable oil until golden, drain excess oil. Pass through a meat grinder 500 g of chicken hearts and onions. Beat 4 eggs and mix with semolina, beat again a little and add to the twisted hearts and onions. Mix by adding chopped dill, salt and pepper to taste. Send in a greased and sprinkled with semolina form, bake in an oven heated to 190 °. The baking time is approximately 1 hour. It turns out a wonderful dish for eating in a cold and warm form - with sour cream, ketchup, cream or without anything.
This dish can be a great substitute for sausage, the quality of which no one is sure for a long time.
No. 4 - Fried Chicken Hearts
Before frying, chicken hearts are well marinated. Soy sauce or regular vinegar is perfect for marinating. 30 minutes in soy sauce (no need to salt) - and on a hot pan. Fat is also not needed, because the hearts themselves are quite fat. A few minutes - and you're done! We also do vinegar, only vinegar should be diluted with water (1: 1).
No. 5 - Chicken Heart Salads
This chicken offal - hearts - looks great in salads.
Spring-summer salad
Beat 3 eggs with 2 tablespoons of milk and cook an omelet (as usual). Cut the cooled omelet and 2-3 fresh cucumbers into strips, also cut 200 g of pre-cooked and cooled hearts. Mix all the ingredients, add 100 g of Korean carrots and season with mayonnaise or sour cream (you can mix them). If the house love horseradish, then it will be a good addition to such a salad. Cucumbers can be replaced with sweet bell pepper or chopped pepper and cucumbers.
Salad with hearts and rice "Space for imagination"
This recipe for chicken hearts is quite simple: a handful of boiled rice, 200-300 grams of boiled chicken hearts, herbs, everything that is in the house, you can add green peas or corn, pickled or fresh cucumbers. This salad is fancy. In it, you can use almost everything that will be found in the refrigerator. The main ingredients in the salad are rice and hearts, the rest is to taste. Dressing - mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil, salad dressing (with garlic, vinegar).
In fact, there are a lot of recipes for making chicken hearts, so skepticism regarding chicken hearts as a simple offal, a real chef, is simply incomprehensible. “You do not like chicken hearts? You just don’t know how to cook them! ”