Hepatic pancakes - general principles and methods of preparation
Liver pancakes have their own unique taste, no matter what you cook them with. The love of nutritionists for this product is quite explainable by science - there are a lot of useful substances (vitamins, minerals and iron) in it and almost no fat. The liver is especially useful for children and pregnant women, they even make baby food from it. But not all babies love her, especially if presented or stewed with streaks. Another thing is liver pancakes. Lush pancakes, just melting in your mouth, are respected even by daddies - therefore, we will raise hemoglobin with the whole family.
Liver pancakes - product preparation
The most important thing is to choose a liver. For liver pancakes there can be only one criterion - this is freshness. The most delicious is the liver of a young animal. A quality product has a pleasant sweet smell. Special services that check such goods, put a special stigma, indicating sufficient quality. Better to take smooth shiny products. The presence of veins, especially in beef offal, does not at all indicate poor-quality goods, the main thing is that there are no spots and gray deposits on it. The largest calf liver can reach 5 kilograms, pork weighs about half as much. If you buy frozen liver, you can only check the packaging - it must be airtight. This is important as this product is not recommended to be defrosted several times.
Hepatic pancakes - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Liver pancakes with carrots
Sweetish liver goes well with carrots. Enriched with "carrot" vitamins, the dish becomes twice as useful, do not miss the opportunity to deliver the double benefit and pleasure to your body - prepare pancakes from the liver and carrots.
Ingredients: chicken liver (350 grams, you can add a little hearts), onions (1-2 pieces), large carrots, flour (3 tablespoon), egg, salt, pepper, ground coriander (½ teaspoon each).
Cooking method
The easiest way to use a blender is to grind offal and onions. You can grind the components with an ordinary meat grinder. Grate the carrots and add to the minced meat. Break the egg, add flour, spices, salt and mix thoroughly. It turns out a mass that, in consistency, resembles thick sour cream or ordinary pancakes from flour. In a preheated frying pan with a small amount of oil, spread the pancakes with a spoon, fry over medium heat like ordinary pancakes. Put the prepared pancakes on a napkin to get rid of excess fat.
Recipe 2: Liver Fillers with Filler
A filler is one or more products that are laid on top of a pancake. Turning over, it “sticks” into the liver mass, and a richer and more satisfying dish is obtained. Experiment, because the liver is combined with many products - mushrooms, eggs, vegetables, cheese and so on.
Ingredients: beef liver (700 grams), eggs (2 pcs), onions, (2 pcs), pepper, salt, flour. As a seasoning, you can use options such as green onions, boiled eggs, bell peppers, mushrooms, stewed or fried vegetables.
Cooking method
We turn the liver through a meat grinder and do the same with onions. We lay eggs, flour, butter, salt and pepper. In a preheated frying pan with oil, put a spoonful of fritters at small intervals, a few pieces into the whole pan. Sprinkle with hot top. After browning on one side, turn over and fry until cooked. The liver can not be overcooked even in milled form, so you do not need to fry for long - 2-3 minutes on each side. If you think that the bake needs more time, cover it when you fry the other side.
Recipe 3: Beef Liver Fritters with Rice
Rice will help increase the yield of fritters without much damage to their quality, if you have very little liver. Any variety will work, use the one you have. An interesting addition is cucumber sauce. The appearance of blenders in our homes made it possible to try various combinations. Try it and you, it is tasty, although unusual.
Ingredients: Veal liver (600-700 grams), onion (2 pcs.), Salt, pepper, egg (2 pcs.), Soy sauce (3 tablespoons). For the sauce: sour cream (half a glass), boiled rice (3/4 cup), parmesan (30-50 grams). 1 fresh cucumber.
Cooking method
Boil rice, filter and cool. Grind the liver and onion in a blender or meat grinder. We mix the mass with broken eggs and sauce, spread the rice and grated hard cheese (parmesan). Mix everything well, add spices. The resulting mass for fritters, reminiscent of the consistency of ordinary thick sour cream. Spread on a frying pan and give on both sides.
Serve with sauce: grate cucumber, mix with sour cream and grated cheese. Put the pancakes on the dish, pour them with sauce and decorate with greens. You can add a vegetable or potato side dish. Perfect for example, stewed cabbage with mushrooms or mashed potatoes.
Recipe 4: Liver Pancakes with Potatoes
Potatoes, especially raw, do not spoil the taste of the dish at all, but only make it less pronounced. Raw liver potato pancakes look like cutlets.
Ingredients: medium potatoes (3 pcs.), eggs (3 pcs.), flour (1 cup), beef liver (1 kg), mayonnaise, garlic.
Cooking method
We need dishes to mix the dough and grate potatoes (you can on a coarse grater). Pass the liver and onions through a meat grinder along with grated potatoes, and mix the resulting minced meat with mayonnaise. Squeeze the garlic and add the eggs, salt, mix. Fry the pancakes, spreading them with a spoon in small cakes in a pan. Remember that the liver cooks very quickly, it can not be overexposed, so leave a sufficiently large fire and mix. Ready pancakes can be smeared with garlic mayonnaise and sprinkled with herbs - you get nice liver mini-cakes.
Hepatic pancakes - tips from experienced chefs
In order to get rid of a specific taste of the liver and remove excess bitterness, the liver should be filled with milk and left for about half an hour. Drain the milk, and turn the liver through a meat grinder. In some cases, the liver is poured with a small amount of wine. In this case, the wine is added to the liver mincemeat.
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