Liver cutlets (or liver pancakes) are an excellent dietary dish. Any liver is suitable for their preparation - beef, pork, chicken. It is believed that liver cutlets from chicken liver are obtained especially tender .
To prepare them you need to take:
- a pound of liver, purified from films;
- about 100 gr. bacon to make the dish juicy;
- a couple of eggs;
- a couple of slices of loaf;
- a large onion;
- a couple of tablespoons of flour;
- Three small cloves of garlic.
Grind onion, garlic, lard, liver and bread in a meat grinder, add salt, pepper, beat in two eggs, add flour and mix everything thoroughly. Cutlets are laid out in a pan with a flavourless heated vegetable oil and are fried on both sides until cooked. Then you need to add a little water and put out the patties for fifteen minutes.
Many are interested in how to cook liver patties with the addition of beets. In this case, the dish may be useful to those who suffer from anemia (iron deficiency). To prepare it, you need to take 0.4 kilograms of liver and 0.4 kilograms of vegetables (beets are necessarily included, carrots, cabbage are added).
Vegetables and liver are passed through a meat grinder, two chicken eggs, three tablespoons of flour are added to them so that the cutlets keep their shape. The mass is kneaded and fried over low heat for a longer time than conventional liver patties, in order for the vegetables to stew well. Cutlets are the most useful, in which instead of flour boiled buckwheat is added, which also contains a certain amount of iron.
You can also take note of how to cook liver patties with potatoes. They are more high-calorie and go well with sour cream, ketchup, various salads. Such liver patties can be served as an independent dish. To cook them? you need to take half a kilogram of beef liver, which you need to grind in a meat grinder. Then two small raw potatoes are taken, peeled and rubbed on a fine grater.
Juice from grated potato mass without fail is squeezed. If you do not squeeze it, cutlets can lose shape. Potatoes are mixed with the liver, one egg, two tablespoons of flour, spices and salt are added. Cutlets are laid out in a pan with hot vegetable oil and fried for about 5 minutes on each side.
Any liver is a very useful product. It contains heparin, which normalizes blood coagulation, a large amount of vitamin A, minerals (calcium, zinc, copper, iron, chromium, which helps with diabetes and atherosclerosis). There is a lot of folic acid in chicken liver, which has a positive effect on the immune system and blood formation system. Many substances in the liver are contained in a concentrated form, which allows you to get a daily rate, for example, of certain vitamins from one serving of this product. Dishes from a quality liver are recommended for use by babies and pregnant women.