Liver fritters: recipes and cooking tips

Hash browns are one of the simplest and most popular dishes in Russian cuisine. It turns out that they can be consumed not only during breakfast. They may well become a full lunch or dinner, if you make them from any meat. In this case, we will talk about how to cook pancakes from the liver.

The liver is not the most demanded product in the kitchen: it turns out to be rather tough during frying. But if everything is done correctly, skip the meat through a meat grinder, you will get a very tender liver forcemeat, from which you can make a terrific liver cake or liver pancakes. Today we will deal with this issue.

The product is good because it does not matter whose liver you will use when cooking: chicken, beef or pork - in terms of their nutritional composition and calorie content, they are all approximately equal.

First of all, of course, you should start with the classic way of preparing this dish. Then we will talk about other interesting recipes.

Remember: before you start cooking the liver, you need to clean it from the film that makes it hard.

So, the first recipe.

1 recipe: classic chicken liver pancakes

According to this key recipe, the pancakes are made thin so that they can be used as the basis for any other snack.

The list of ingredients:

• 500 grams of chicken liver;
• two glasses of flour;
• two small onions;
• two eggs;
• cooking oil for frying;
• salt / spices / pepper - a pinch.

Cooking method

According to this recipe, pancakes from the liver are prepared as follows.

1. We send the liver to a blender.
2. Add onions to it and whisk again until smooth. Onions will be needed quite a lot and it is necessary to check that it is not bitter.
3. Pour the resulting mixture into another container and drive 2 eggs into it, mix everything thoroughly, then add salt / pepper and again turn everything into a homogeneous mass.
4. Next, add flour to the mixture.
5. The liver mass is ready. Before sending pancakes to the pan, you need to add one tablespoon of oil to the mixture so that nothing burns.
6. Liver pancakes need to be fried in a heated pan. Spread the mixture with a regular spoon, as for ordinary pancakes. We fry pancakes for three minutes on each side over medium heat.
7. If you cooked these delicious liver pancakes for snacks, that's not all. And if you decide to make pancakes for lunch, then remove them from the pan, add your favorite side dish and enjoy the results of the new recipe.
8. For appetizers you need to make a sauce of greens, garlic and sour cream: apply the sauce on the liver pancakes, put the tomato on top and sprinkle with grated cheese if desired. Now the dish is ready.

Second recipe: beef liver fritters with potatoes and milk

To prepare liver pancakes according to this recipe, we need:

• 300 grams of beef liver;
• one small potato;
• 150 ml of milk;
• one egg;
• one small onion;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• Pepper / salt / spices - a pinch.

How to cook?

According to this recipe, pancakes are prepared from the liver as follows:

1. Beef liver, onion and potatoes are passed through a blender or meat grinder to the state of minced meat. This can be done both together and separately - they will still end up in the same tank.
2. Pour milk into the mixture and add the egg, throw salt, pepper and spices. We mix everything.
3. Next, fill the flour and bring the mass to a homogeneous state; it should turn out to be a uniform, liquid consistency.
4. Now you need to fry the pancakes. The mixture, as always, spread using a tablespoon on a hot pan, greased with vegetable oil.
5. If the dough spreads too much and the pancakes look more like pancakes, you can put a little more flour in the mixture.
6. Fry fritters for two minutes on each side over low heat.

The third recipe - pancakes with pork liver decoy

Very nice recipe. Liver fritters are tender and soft. The ingredients for it are:

• pork liver - 500 grams;
• semolina - 4 tablespoons;
• 1 egg
• 1 onion;
• rast. oil - 100 ml;
• salt / pepper - a pinch;

Cooking method

According to this recipe, pork liver pancakes are prepared as follows. First of all, you need to skip the liver and onions through a blender or meat grinder, and then mix all the components of the recipe.

The difference in the recipe is in the properties of semolina: it swells. Therefore, before frying the pancakes, the finished dough needs to be infused for about half an hour.

The fourth recipe - aerial pancakes with rice

The easiest and most popular way to make pancakes from the liver is with rice pancakes. Fast, satisfying, simple and incredibly tasty. And to everything else, rice gives them airiness.

To prepare these soft pancakes from the liver, you will need the ingredients:

• 700 grams of any liver;
• a glass of unboiled rice;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• one medium onion;
• one egg;
• pepper / salt - in a whisper;

Cooking method:

1. Cook rice in salt water. Send the liver and onion to a blender, then pour the mixture into a separate bowl.
2. To it we add an egg, cooked rice, flour, salt and pepper; mix everything until smooth.
3. To fry, put the mixture with a spoon on a hot pan, well oiled with vegetable oil.

To prevent the pancakes from spreading over the pan, laying out the dough, turn on the burner at full power, then reduce to an average value. With the help of this small life hack, your mixture will instantly seize, will not spread throughout the pan, and the pancakes will not turn into pancakes. Fritters need to be fried for about 5-6 minutes on each side until a golden crust appears. As soon as she appeared, it's time to turn over. You also need to sometimes move the pancakes with a fork in a pan so that they do not stick.

As a result, the pancakes are lush and tender.

Fifth recipe - liver pancakes with onions and carrots

For lovers of vegetables, this recipe is just perfect.

Ingredients required for the recipe:

• beef liver - 600 grams;
• carrots - 2 small;
• flour - 5 tablespoons;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• onion - 1 piece;
• greens - to taste;
• black pepper - a pinch;
• salt - a pinch;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking Technique

According to this recipe, pancakes are prepared from the liver as follows:

1. Cut the liver into small pieces so that it is more convenient to pass it through a meat grinder or beat with a blender. In the process of cutting we remove the film from the meat so that the liver does not become stiff.
2. Similarly, we cut onions and carrots. Finely chop the greens.
3. Grind the liver, carrots and onions with a blender or meat grinder.
4. Drive eggs into the resulting dough, add flour, salt, pepper and chopped greens. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. The result is a viscous dough with a grainy texture.
6. Spread the mixture with a tablespoon on a preheated pan, previously greased with vegetable oil.
7. Fry fritters for 4-5 minutes on each side over medium heat.
8. Serve with your favorite sauce or sour cream.

If you want to make the taste of these pancakes even more expressive, carrots and onions can not be chopped in a blender, but simply finely chopped, separately fried and added to the finished dough.

The recipe of the sixth - liver tenderness “Tenderness”

Essential Ingredients:

• beef liver - 150 grams;
• slaked vinegar - half a teaspoon;
• onions - 1 piece;
• wheat flour / flour - 5 tablespoons .;
• low-fat kefir - 150 ml;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• potato - 1 piece;
• salt / pepper / seasoning - a pinch;
• carrots - 1 piece.

Cooking:

1. Finely chop the onion, three carrots on a coarse grater.
2. We twist the raw potatoes in a meat grinder or pass through a blender; scroll the liver in a meat grinder too.
3. Pour kefir to the liver and potatoes, then drive an egg into it.
4. The next step is to add slaked soda.
5. Fry onions and carrots (you can - together, you can - divided). Add them to the liver, put salt, pepper, flour, mix everything thoroughly.
6. Put the liver on a preheated pan with a tablespoon and fry for 4-7 minutes on low heat.

Seventh recipe - liver pancakes without flour

If the potatoes are replaced with another ingredient, then this recipe can be considered low-calorie. So, he will appeal to everyone who wants to lose a few pounds.

Ingredients that will be needed to prepare chicken fritters with semolina according to this recipe:

• medium onions - 1 piece;
• chicken liver - 300 grams;
• medium potato - 1 piece;
• semolina - 1-2 tablespoons;
• black pepper - a pinch;
• salt - a pinch;
• rast. cooking oil.

Cooking time for fritters: 20 minutes.

Number of servings received: 4 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the liver, onions and potatoes; cut everything into small cubes and pass through a blender.
2. Add salt / pepper. Mix everything gently.
3. Add semolina to the mixture (depending on its density) and leave for a while so that the semolina has time to swell.
4. It is necessary to fry the pancakes in vegetable oil, spreading the mixture with a tablespoon in a pan.
5. Serve the dish with sour cream.

Enjoy your meal!

In the near future, be sure to prepare liver pancakes according to one of the proposed recipes. This tasty and simple dish will certainly diversify your usual menu.