Chicken liver

If you want to enrich your diet with healthy and wholesome food, pay attention to chicken by-products. Of them are preparing real culinary masterpieces. So, chicken liver, fried with onions in sour cream according to our recipes, will become the favorite dish of your household.

How to cook the liver in sour cream: cooking tips

There is an opinion that offal refers to meat products of the second grade. However, it is not. In many countries of the world by-products are considered a delicacy and are very much appreciated. This is due to their beneficial properties, as well as taste.

To get chicken liver tasty and not bitter, it must be properly selected and cooked. And help us in this advice chefs:

• Choosing a chicken liver, pay attention to its shade. The fresh product is brown with a burgundy hue, and there should not be any green spots on the liver.
• You can check the freshness of the liver by its smell: it should have a sweetish aroma. The smell of ammonia is evidence that the product is stale.
• Before cooking, chicken liver must be soaked in milk for at least two hours, otherwise it may give a bitter taste. If there is no milk, scald the liver with boiling water, and when it changes color, you can safely cook it.
• If you are using frozen chicken liver, it is important to defrost it properly: put the product on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. This method of defrosting, though slow, but you save all its healthy properties in the liver and do not spoil the taste of the dish. In no case can not use the microwave.
• Delicate and tasty is liver, cooked in sour cream sauce. You can add a variety of spices, flour and even wine.

Stroganoff liver: a classic recipe

Traditionally, Stroganoff liver is prepared with sour cream. To add savory notes to the dish, add honey and nutmeg.

Composition:

• 500 g chicken liver;
• onion head;
• 2 carrots;
• 250 g sour cream;
• 1 tbsp. l honey;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper mixture;
• pinch of nutmeg.

Cooking:

1. First prepare the vegetables: clean and rinse them. Shred onion in half rings or cubes, and carrot we rub on a medium grater.
2. Fry the onion in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes, until it turns slightly golden.
3. Put the carrots in the pan and fry the vegetables for 5 minutes, not forgetting to stir periodically.
4. Wash chicken liver, dry and cut into two parts (it can also be left intact). Put the liver in the pan and cook together with vegetables, stirring occasionally.
5. In the meantime, let's do a sauce: mix sour cream with honey, add nutmeg, season with a mixture of peppers and salt. Stir the sauce thoroughly. Attention: if you want to cook a liver in a Stroganov style according to a truly classic recipe, then use only sour cream for the sauce.
6. Add the resulting sauce to the pan and mix.
7. Now you can go two ways. First - continue to simmer the liver in a pan under the lid closed until done. The second is to put the pan in the oven preheated to 180 degrees and also simmer until ready. In any case, chicken liver, fried with onions and carrots in sour cream, will be very tasty.

Cooking chicken liver with sour cream in a slow cooker

If you have little time to prepare lunch or dinner, fry chicken liver in a slow cooker. You only need to prepare all the ingredients, and the rest will be done by the "kitchen assistant" for you.

Composition:

• 500 g chicken liver;
• onion head;
• 2-3 garlic cloves;
• 1 tbsp. sour cream;
• salt and pepper mixture;
• parsley or dill.

Cooking:

1. Peel and chop the onion and garlic.
2. We wash the liver and wait for excess fluid to drain.
3. Pour vegetable oil into multi bowl and lay out liver, onion and garlic cloves. Expose the program "Frying" and fry for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Sour cream slightly diluted with filtered or boiled water and pour into a multi-cooker bowl. Season the dish with salt and pepper mixture.
5. Exhibit the program "Quenching" (in some models of multicooker mode "Kashi") and the cooking time - 30-35 minutes. Cooking until the end of the program.
6. Ready-made liver can be drained on top with parsley or dill.

Gourmet Liver with Apple

For true gourmets is a recipe for chicken liver, fried with apples in sour cream. This dish has exquisite taste and unsurpassed aroma. Choose a variety of apples, depending on what kind of notes you want to add to your dish - sour or sweet.

Composition:

• 500 g chicken liver;
• onion head;
• Big apple;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 5 tbsp. l sifted flour;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper mix.

Cooking:

1. Wash and dry the liver, season with salt and a mixture of peppers.
2. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil well.
3. The secret of juicy liver is pre-breaded. Each piece is well rolled in flour and spread on the pan. Fry on both sides until the liver has acquired a golden crust.
4. In the meantime, peel and shred the onions. Apple also peel, remove the core and finely chop.
5. We spread onions and apple slices to the liver. Stir and add 50 g sour cream. Reduce the fire and simmer the liver, slowly adding the remaining sour cream in small portions.
6. Stew our dish until cooked. It usually takes 30-40 minutes.

Delicate chicken liver in cream sauce

Here is another recipe for delicious and tender chicken liver. His secret is that first the liver is breaded in an egg with flour, and the dish is laid out in layers.

Composition:

• 400 g chicken liver;
• 3 onions;
• 1 tbsp. l sifted flour;
• 2 tbsp. sour cream;
• 1 chicken egg;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Peel the onions, cut them into semirings, and then pass until you acquire a golden color in vegetable oil.
2. Wash the liver and dry, put it in a bowl. Beat the egg, mix it with flour and pour the liver into the resulting mixture. Do not forget to salt. PHOTO
3. In a separate pan, fry the liver pieces on both sides in several runs for about a minute.
4. Now remove the pan from the heat and spread the whole liver in an even layer.
5. Next layer lay on the liver onions.
6. Fill all with sour cream and cook, covered with a frying pan with a lid, on a very low heat for 25 minutes. Some housewives stew such a dish in the oven.

There are many ways to cook chicken liver in sour cream. For example, some add tomato paste or ketchup to sour cream sauce, others fry liver with mushrooms. You can experiment with spices and seasonings. It all depends on your taste preferences. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit!