Chicken liver is present in the diet of almost any family, not only because of its nutritional value, but also due to its quick and easy cooking. Before you cook chicken liver, you should find out that it is not inferior to beef by the content of iron and B vitamins, but it is absolutely undemanding in the selection of related products.

Chicken Liver - A Classic Recipe

The simplest in execution, but no less satisfying, is the classic recipe, which will require the most common ingredients:

  • liver - 500 g;
  • onions - 2-3 heads;
  • sunflower oil - 30 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

To create a dish according to the classic recipe, you can follow the steps below, which will allow you to serve a very tasty liver to the table:

  1. The offal is washed and dried with a paper towel, and then divided into quarters.
  2. Peeled onions are cut with rings.
  3. Onions are laid out in a frying pan on hot oil and fried over medium-high heat until a golden crust appears.
  4. The liver is laid out onion and, with constant stirring, is fried for 7 minutes.
  5. The contents of the pan are salted, pepper, and then covered with a lid, and the fire is reduced to a minimum.
  6. After 5 minutes of stewing, the chicken liver with onions is ready.

Stewed in sour cream (Stroganoff liver)

 

An ideal dish for a casual dinner, just melting in your mouth and being a diet. To create a nutritious by-product in sour cream, it is enough to add 200-300 g of sour cream to the main ingredients from the classic recipe, depending on the desired gravity of the gravy.The cooking method is also similar to the classical one with one nuance: before proceeding to the last step, the fried onions and liver are poured with sour cream and stewed for a quarter of an hour under the lid.

Advice! Chicken liver in sour cream will turn out even more tender if you soak the product in milk for a quarter of an hour before cooking.

Chicken liver fritters

An excellent self-contained main course that also goes well with potato side dishes.

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To prepare pancakes from half a kilogram of liver, you need:

  • liver - 500 g;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • sunflower oil - 30 ml;
  • chicken egg - 1 pc.;
  • flour - 50 g;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

To enjoy gentle pancakes as a result:

  1. Prepared liver and onion are passed through a meat grinder or grinded in a combine.
  2. An egg is driven into the minced meat and flour is added, after which everything is thoroughly mixed, salted and seasoned.
  3. A mixture of a fairly liquid consistency is laid out in a hot pan with a tablespoon of sunflower oil.
  4. Frying occurs on a not too intense fire: one side is fried until a golden crust appears on the edges, the second - with a lid closed, until the pancake is fully cooked.

Attention! If you thicken the liver mass, then the output will be liver cutlets: the principle of preparation and the set of ingredients in two dishes is similar.

How to make a pate?

Chicken liver pate is another nutritious treat, which, if properly performed, will be very useful even on the festive table.

To taste the pate at home, you will need:

  • liver - 250 g;
  • onions - 2-3 heads;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • sunflower oil - 50 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

Before you start cooking, prepare the products:

  • the oil is kept at room temperature to soften;
  • peeled onions are crushed;
  • carrots rub on a fine grater;
  • the washed liver is cut into small pieces.

After preparing the products:

  1. Onions are spread in a preheated pan with ½ sunflower oil and sautéed for 5-6 minutes over low heat.
  2. Add carrots to the onion, everything is mixed and continues to be pasiruyutsya another 10-12 minutes to a soft root.
  3. The carrot and onion mixture is laid out in a separate bowl, and the remaining half of the sunflower oil is poured into the pan.
  4. The liver is laid out in hot oil and fried for 5 minutes over a fairly intense fire.
  5. After the disappearance of blood, the liver is laid out to vegetables.
  6. Offal and vegetables are passed through a meat grinder.
  7. After cooling, butter, salt and spices are added to the mixture.
  8. Everything is thoroughly mixed and placed in the refrigerator for half an hour.

The paste is ready to eat.

Oriental with soy sauce

A stunning nutritious dish with oriental notes, spiced with soy sauce and spices used in oriental cuisine.

To prepare a dish you need to purchase:

  • liver - 500 g;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • soy sauce - 75 ml;
  • tomato paste - 25 g;
  • honey - 25 g;
  • starch - 20 g;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • sunflower oil - 50 ml;
  • salt, spices (curry, paprika) - to taste.

The cooking method is quite simple:

  1. The washed liver is cut into thin slices.
  2. In a separate container ½ oils, starch, spices, salt, mashed garlic are mixed.
  3. While the liver is aged in the mixture for 15 minutes, pouring from soy sauce, honey and tomato paste is prepared in another dish.
  4. On the preheated pan with the remaining oil, the liver is laid out, after frying it on high heat for 5 minutes, put onion half rings.
  5. After 5 minutes, everything is poured with sauce, which, if desired, can be diluted with boiling water.
  6. After 10 minutes of languishing the contents over low heat, the delicacy is ready.

Attention! If ketchup is used instead of pasta, honey is put in half less.

Chicken liver fried with vegetables

A dish rich in vitamins and other nutrients is a liver with vegetables, which is prepared from the following products:

  • liver - 500 g;
  • onion - 2 heads;
  • zucchini - 1 pc.;
  • eggplant - 1 pc.;
  • Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.;
  • tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • sunflower oil - 50 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

To prepare a kind of vegetable stew with liver, offal and vegetables are cut: liver - in half, onion - half rings, eggplant and zucchini - rings, pepper - stripes, tomatoes - slices, garlic - thin petals.

When everything is prepared:

  1. Eggplant rings are salted, and after 20 minutes are wrung out.
  2. The liver is laid out on a heated frying pan, where it is fried over medium heat.
  3. After 7 minutes, the offal slices are flipped to the other side, salted, seasoned and cooked until cooked with constant stirring.
  4. In a stewpan, onions and garlic are fried until golden brown, after which they are transferred to the liver.
  5. Then, eggplant, zucchini and pepper are separately overcooked, after which all vegetables and liver are combined in a preheated stewpan.
  6. Tomatoes are laid out to the stew, and the stove turns off.
  7. Everything is salted, seasoned and closed with a lid.
  8. After 5 minutes, the meal is ready.

Simple and delicious salad with chicken liver

The guests unexpectedly rushed in the code, the liver salad will come to the rescue, being a delicious treat, for the preparation of which it is necessary:

  • liver - 350 g;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 2 pcs.;
  • potatoes - 2 pcs.;
  • chicken egg - 5 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 250 g;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

Puff salad is prepared as follows:

  1. Potatoes and eggs are boiled and chopped.
  2. Chopped onions and grated carrots are fried.
  3. The liver is boiled, cut into strips and fried.
  4. The layers are smeared with mayonnaise: potatoes, liver, carrot and onion mixture, eggs.

Potato baked liver

An interesting recipe for liver casseroles will appeal to even the most fastidious gourmets.

To implement a recipe from half a kilogram of offal you will need:

  • onions - 150 g;
  • carrots - 200 g;
  • potatoes - 600 g;
  • hard cheese - 150 g;
  • sunflower oil - 30 ml;
  • sour cream - 300 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

For cooking:

  1. Chopped onions and grated carrots are slightly fried.
  2. Liver slices are added to the carrot-onion mixture, after which everything is fried for 3-4 minutes.
  3. Sour cream is added, salted, seasoned, and then everything is stewed for 7 minutes.
  4. Separately, until cooked, salted potatoes are cut into slices.
  5. ½ liver mass, potatoes, ½ liver, grated cheese are laid out in layers in a pot.
  6. After 30 minutes of baking in the oven at 180 °, the dish is ready.

How to cook pilaf?

Rice is an ideal side dish for the liver. And having experimented a little, you can combine the two products in a kind of pilaf.

To do this, you need to take:

  • liver - 450 g;
  • rice - 200 g;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • sunflower oil - 50 ml;
  • boiling water - 300 ml;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Pieces of the liver are fried over high heat and chopped vegetables are separately passivated.
  2. Washed rice, liver and vegetables are laid out in a bowl, after which everything is salted, seasoned and poured with boiling water.
  3. Prepares until the liquid has completely evaporated.

Scottish soup

Chicken liver soup is a traditional Scottish tradition first course which you will need to make:

  • liver - 300 g;
  • barley - 70 g;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • carrots - 1⁄2 pcs.;
  • potatoes - 150 g;
  • water - 1.5 l;
  • salt, spices - to taste.

It is prepared according to this scheme:

  1. Barley is placed in a pot of water and cooked over medium heat.
  2. After half an hour, diced potatoes, chopped vegetables, salt and spices are added.
  3. When the potatoes reach their finished state, the liver is pre-cooked for 2 minutes in the pan.
  4. After 5 minutes, the stove turns off, and the soup is infused before serving 10-12 minutes.

 

So, Chicken liver dishes are very diverse and easy to execute. With such a simple product, you can add zest to any menu.

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