A festive feast cannot do without a cake. But along with beautiful desserts, there are snack cakes that are served either before a hot dish, or in addition to the main dishes. They look unusual and immediately attract the attention of guests.
One of these recipes is liver cake, a step-by-step method of preparation of which we will consider in the article.
Try to master this recipe. Surely he will take his rightful place in your cookbook.
Fancy snack
Liver cake consists of stacked pancakes, smeared with hot sauce. To make the dish delicious and all the flavors interwoven into a single symphony, the cake needs time to soak. It is advisable to cook it on the eve of the festive event.
This dish is good also because it is convenient to serve it. Cut pieces preserve integrity, do not break up into layers, hold well on a serving spatula.
Making pancakes
You can choose any kind of liver for the dish . Chicken liver cake , for example, will be more tender. Beef will make the taste more expressive. A pork, also quite tasty, will save a little, because it is usually cheaper than analogues. Suitable also duck, turkey, goose.
Many housewives recommend using a blender to prepare tender minced meat. But you can get by with an ordinary meat grinder.
Grind a pound of liver in any convenient way. It is desirable that there are no lumps in the mass. Add half a liter of milk, mix thoroughly, slightly salt.
Beat with a fork 4 chicken eggs, pour into the liver mass. After mixing, add 250 grams of semolina, stir again until smooth and let it brew so that the semolina is well swollen. You can add a little black pepper to the mixture. Too active spices should not be used, otherwise they will simply drown out the taste of the main products.
From the specified number of products, you get a rather high liver cake, which is enough for the whole family. But, if you expect to visit a large company, proportionally increase the number of products.
Pour pancakes with a ladle onto a greased frying pan and fry on both sides. For turning it is convenient to use a flat spatula.
Garlic sauce
The severity of the sauce can be adjusted according to preference. An average of 200 grams of mayonnaise will need 4 cloves of garlic. Sell it through a press, add to mayonnaise and mix. If desired, you can add a small amount of sour cream or unsweetened homemade yogurt, then the sauce will be more tender. Try to monitor the consistency: too thin the sauce will drain, and during the impregnation will lose color, becoming translucent.
If you add finely chopped dill to the sauce, the cake will be more elegant and piquant.
You can use for this treats and young garlic grown in the garden.
Spread each pancake with sauce, laying them on a serving platter on top of each other. Carefully coat the finished liver cake with sauce from the sides and from above, trying to make the surface smooth.
Cake toppings
This is an optional component, but many liver cakes recipes contain all kinds of additives. Fried mushrooms are in perfect harmony with the liver. Boiled eggs, grated, are well suited for this dish.
You can add only egg whites to the sauce, and leave the yolks for decoration. The finished cake will just need to be sprinkled with egg crumbs. Seed-free olives, circles of pickled gherkins, young herbs, viburnum berries are also suitable for decoration.
In the vegetable season, try adding some freshly grated cucumbers between some layers. It goes well with liver and spicy mayonnaise and cream cheese. In this case, it is advisable to add it directly to the sauce, and then beat with a blender.
Unusual addition: liver cake with carrots
Carrots stewed with onions will not only give the taste expressiveness and softness to the texture, but will also add color to this rather restrained dish with respect to the color scheme.
For the specified number of products, one medium-sized carrot and one small onion are enough.
Cut the onions into small cubes, chop the carrots with a grater. Fry the vegetables in butter until cooked, and then add to the garlic-dressed mayonnaise.
Hot cake under a cheese crust
Usually this appetizer is served cold. But there is an alternative recipe for liver cake.
In this case, pancakes are also prepared from the liver, milk and eggs. But you need to collect the cake not on a serving platter, but in a heat-resistant dish. Deco, baking tray or pan will do.
Pancakes after dressing with sauce, it is advisable (but not necessary) to sprinkle with grated cheese. On top of the cake you need to lay another layer of cheese about a centimeter high. Try to avoid crumbs falling to the bottom of the dishes, otherwise they will burn.
Send the finished cake to the preheated oven and bake until the cheese cap is completely melted and becomes rosy.
This dish is served hot to the table. For its preparation, you can use various types of cheeses that melt well.
Festive table serving
A classic-style liver cake is served on a flat dish. Cutting is carried out into triangular segments. Guests are required to offer the cutlery appropriate to the dish: forks and knives.
If the whole cake was not eaten immediately, it can be stored in the refrigerator, wrapped with cling film, or gently moved to a container with a lid.