The liver is a product highly desirable for the diet, because it contains many useful substances. But on our tables, she rarely appears recently. One of the reasons is that shop liver often turns out to be rather dry. It’s not a recipe for cooking - that’s how it is from the beginning. But this problem can be dealt with if you prepare liver pancakes, which, when you add the “right” ingredients, will not be dry accurately. This is a dish that is always loved by both children and adults. It can be offered for lunch or dinner, or it can, with certain simple "manipulations", decorate the festive table.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - the liver;
- - mayonnaise;
- - eggs;
- - flour;
- - bow;
- - vegetable oil;
- - salt;
- - spices;
- - knives;
- - cutting board;
- - meat grinder;
- - bowls;
- - a frying pan.
Instruction manual
1
Decide which liver you want to make pancakes from. The best option is beef liver, unlike pork liver, it is not bitter, and differs from chicken in more “strong” minced meat. Of course, this is just a recommendation. If you wish, you can buy any, the main thing is that it should not be frozen and thawed many times, almost certainly nothing good will come of such a liver. In the store, pay attention to the structure of the offal. If ducts are visually visible, it is better to choose a different package. Another important thing that you should pay attention to is the date of development. This is especially important for an unfrozen liver, which has a rather short shelf life. Frozen - it is stored much longer without loss of quality, but even here you can’t buy after the expiration of the term. A store that neglects sanitary rules and sells goods of inadequate condition is, by and large, not credible.
2
Cut the liver and cut the bile ducts with a sharp knife. So it’s less likely that you will cut a lot. Then proceed to remove the film. To do this, feel for its edge and, carefully sticking a finger under it, as if moving it towards the center. In this way, removing the film from the liver is still much easier than with a knife. From chicken, duck, turkey offal, the film is usually not removed.
3
Cut the liver into relatively small pieces that will easily fit into the neck of your meat grinder. Lay them in small batches, otherwise there is a risk of splashing the walls or window. Nevertheless, the liver is not meat; the minced meat from it is substantially thinner. Alternate the laying of offal and onions - of course, it can later be chopped, fried and added to the minced meat. But many people like it when the pancakes from the liver are absolutely homogeneous, for them the onion slices found are not the best option. Salt the minced meat and season with black pepper.
4
Prepare the rest of the ingredients for the liver pancakes - mayonnaise, eggs, flour. When choosing mayonnaise, do not try to severely limit its fat content. The idea to reduce fat intake is understandable and welcomed, only mayonnaise is not a product that will help in this. Just think, due to what (if not due to vegetable oil) it has its own structure. The answer is obvious - due to emulsifiers, that is, certain chemicals that bind water. Unfortunately, no matter what exhortations regarding the natural naturalness of the product are distributed by manufacturers, all this is nothing more than a marketing ploy. Either fat, or an artificial emulsifier, there is no third way for a purchased mayonnaise.
5
Mix 1 kg of minced meat from the liver with 50 g of mayonnaise, beat 2 eggs, put 30 g of wheat flour. For the supporters of a healthy diet, flour can be replaced with bran - wheat or oat, rye bran is not suitable. Their taste does not go well with the taste of pancakes from the liver. Mix the mass well, it should turn out to be homogeneous. Let stand a little - 10-15 minutes is enough. At this time, the flour will swell and become a kind of binding agent, which, in tandem with the emulsifying properties of eggs and mayonnaise, will allow the minced muffin to acquire the correct texture.
6
Heat the pan. You can take cast iron, you can aluminum with non-stick coating. The main thing is that it be perfectly clean. Any product will begin to stick to a dirty pan immediately, after which it will burn and give the dish a completely inappropriate taste. Pour in vegetable oil, glow until light smoke is emitted. Take a spoonful of ground beef and spread in boiling fat. Fry fritters for 2-3 minutes on each side, then transfer to a bowl, covering with a towel and a lid so that they do not cool. By the way, they are also very tasty when cooled, you can eat them just like that, or you can put them on a sandwich.
7
For the holiday, prepare a liver cake. For 300 g of cottage cheese (or soft cottage cheese), take 150 g of pickles, 30 g of fresh parsley and dill, 4 boiled eggs. Mix the ingredients with a fork (or with a low-speed blender - we still don’t need any gruel). Another filling option is for 400 g of baked eggplant, crushed in mashed potatoes, 100 g of walnuts, peeled and chopped into fairly large pieces. The third - 250 g of cream cheese, 100 g of mayonnaise and 30 g of garlic, mixed into a homogeneous mass. (The weight of the ingredients is indicated for 1 kg of prepared minced meat from the liver.) Do not do everything all at once, one cake is one filling and please do not forget to salt.
8
When collecting a cake, start by choosing a dish or plate where you plan to build a “structure”. We need dishes with very low sides, and better - without sides at all. In the absence of such, you can collect and serve the cake on a round or square cutting board. Do not worry that ugly empty places will be visible - we will certainly decorate them with lemon slices, herbs, olives, olives, capers, carrot roses - but you never know where the fantasy will bring it. Put pancakes from the liver in one row, then coat with filling, the last layer should be filling. If you wish, you can coat the cake with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese chips - then it will look a bit like Napoleon. But you can leave it “as is”, sprinkled with herbs or, as recommended a little higher, decorate with vegetables that are suitable to your taste. A cake made from liver pancakes should be kept in the refrigerator until serving.
note
You should not use a lot of spices: liver pancakes are self-sufficient, in some cases spices can only spoil the taste.
Useful advice
It is better to make pancakes from beef liver, it is not bitter and allows you to get minced meat of a stronger structure.
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