Beef liver fritters is a dish that has been known since the 17th century. Then such an exquisite dish was prepared only for aristocrats, and liver pancakes with wine sauce were served.
Today, everyone can cook such a dish, especially since the recipe for cooking is quite simple. To make delicious pancakes from beef liver, we need a pound of liver, an onion, four cloves of garlic, a couple of eggs, a spoonful of flour and frying oil.
We cut the washed liver into pieces, removing the ducts and blood vessels, then rotate it through a meat grinder. Unlike minced meat, minced liver is quite liquid.
Chop onions and garlic with a grater, a meat grinder or just finely chop with a knife and add vegetables to the minced meat. Beat the eggs and add them to the liver, pour a spoonful of flour here, which can be replaced with finely ground breadcrumbs. Salt and season the minced meat, adding pepper and any spices to it. All mix well.
Now we put the pan on the fire, pour vegetable oil there and heat it. We begin to spread our fritters from beef liver with a spoon in a pan. We fry them on one side, and then gently invert the spatula to the other side. When the other side is fried, remove the pancakes and put them on a plate.
Such beef liver pancakes can be served with a side dish or used to make sandwiches.
By the way, such pancakes can be cooked "with bake". For example, you can make cheese pancakes. To do this, after turning the fritters on the fried side, lay out a thin slice of cheese and continue cooking until the cheese is melted under a lid. Such cheese pancakes from the liver - a great appetizer for beer.
Using this recipe, you can cook pancakes not only from beef, but also from pork liver. In addition, if desired, you can make liver pancakes with additives. For example, if you add finely chopped boiled mushrooms into the minced meat, you get an original dish. You can use boiled rice or buckwheat as additives, then the pancakes will be “two in one” - both a side dish and a meat dish.
And if instead of pancakes from the cooked mass, pancakes are baked, then they can be used as the basis for a popular snack called liver cake.
Cooked pancakes from the liver we use as cakes, and we make the cream for them from olive mayonnaise mixed with garlic and grated cheese. We smear the cakes with cream, stacking them in a pile, the top of the "cake" is also greased with cream and decorate with flowers, herbs and olives cut from vegetables.
But here's how to cook liver pancakes from chicken liver. On a half-kilogram tray of chicken liver, we need one onion, a spoon of sour cream, two eggs, three tablespoons of flour, salt, seasonings and butter in order to fry our pancakes.
My chicken liver, removing excess fat from it, and grind it in a blender along with chopped onions. After the mass acquires a homogeneous consistency, we add eggs, beaten with sour cream, into the liver stuffing and pour in the flour. Do not forget to season the minced meat with salt and pepper. You can put finely chopped dill or garlic in the liver mass.
We fry the liver pancakes in a pan in the same way as described above, that is, spread them with a spoon and fry on both sides.
If you are opposed to fried or you can’t eat fatty for health reasons, then mini puddings can be prepared from the liver. The technology of preparation of the liver mass does not change, only the protein of the egg should be beaten until foam before being introduced into the meat. Put the prepared stuffing in small silicone molds for making muffins, which first need to be slightly greased with oil. Bake mini puddings in the oven or cook in a double boiler. We take finished products from the molds and serve with a side dish.