When does the mistress prepare the liver? When there is no meat, because the price of liver more affordable. When you want diversity - from the liver, you can cook a lot of dishes. When you need to replenish the body with iron and other beneficial substances - this by-product is just a storehouse of nutrients. And the liver is cooked when you want a delicious favorite dish. For many, it is liver stewed in sour cream.
It can be beef, pork, especially tender chicken or turkey.
Today, the hostess is even easier to cook thanks to kitchen assistants.
Liver in a slow cooker with sour cream is done easily and simply in different variations.
Basic principles of cooking the liver in a slow cooker with sour cream
Proper preparation of the liver - the key to success dishes.
Before cooking chicken liver in a slow cooker with sour cream, offal should be washed and, if desired, cut into slices. The chicken has a small liver, you can cook it entirely.
If the liver of a large animal - pork, beef - with it you need to clean off the film. As well as cut into pieces, remove the bile ducts. They are pretty tough and dense. This should be done especially carefully if you plan to cook chops, so that later you can chop the liver into layers.
In general, the liver can be cut with long strips, cubes of different sizes and, as already mentioned, plastics as chops.
Prepared liver is often fried in butter until light or more golden brown. This will help keep the juice inside the product. To enhance this effect, often pieces of the liver are first rolled in flour.
Next, if necessary, add vegetables to the liver - onions, garlic, carrots, and fry them further or immediately stew them, filling them with sour cream.
Sour cream can take any fat. Often it is diluted with water so that there is more sauce. But if there is a large amount of sour cream, you can not dilute. True, the gravy then comes out pretty thick. Good seasonings for pork, beef, chicken liver with sour cream in a slow cooker - black pepper, allspice peas, bay leaf, dill and spices to taste.
A simple recipe for cooking chicken liver in a slow cooker with sour cream
On the basis of this recipe, you can experiment by adding various vegetables and spices. But the novice mistress is best to try just this way of cooking the liver in a slow cooker. The chicken by-product is taken because it is easier to prepare and more tender, but any other liver can be used.
Ingredients
• A pound of chicken liver
• Large onion
• 100-200 grams of sour cream
• Flour for breading - 2-3 spoons
• Ground black pepper and salt to taste
• A pair of bay leaves
• Vegetable oil for frying.
Method of preparation
Prepare the liver - rinse, cut into two or three parts.
Salt and pepper.
Heat oil in a pan.
Roll pieces of liver in flour and put in butter. Fry each side until rosy.
Pull the liver into the bowl of the slow cooker, and put onions in the pan.
When the onions are reddened, pour it along with the oil on the liver. Add bay leaf.
Dilute sour cream with water, add a slow cooker to the bowl. Salted.
The sauce should completely cover the liver, in the process of cooking its volume will decrease slightly, so the amount can be adjusted with water.
Put the program to quench for 40 minutes.
Serve the finished liver in sour cream with potatoes, pasta or other side dish to taste.
Original: pork liver plus apples and sour cream
The addition of new fresh flavors to the liver dish will be helped by adding apples to the recipe. It is advisable to take fragrant and acidic, hard varieties, otherwise loose and overripe can turn into porridge. In addition, the apple will mask a slight bitterness of pork liver.
Ingredients
• A pound of pork liver
• Large onion • Two medium apples
• About a glass of milk
• Two spoons of sour cream
• Flouring for the liver
• Oil for frying
• Salt, ground black pepper.
Method of preparation
To clean a liver from films, to cut into layers, then - thin strips.
Pour the liver with milk and leave for an hour.
Pull out of milk, dry.
Roll the liver strips in flour and put in the bowl of the slow cooker with a small amount of vegetable oil.
Set the Frying or Baking mode for 10 minutes.
Peel and chop the onion.
Remove apples from the center and cut into slices.
Turn the liver over, put onions and apples on top, put on another 10 minutes to fry.
Salt, pepper, put sour cream and put in stewing mode for 20 minutes.
In this dish a little sauce, but the apples add juiciness.
Tomato-sour cream liver in a slow cooker
According to this recipe, both beef and chicken liver in a slow cooker with sour cream and tomatoes will turn out excellent. You can choose the liver of other animals. The sauce is not quite normal, it seems to be a combination of two — sour cream and tomato. Plus garlic, spices, and it turns out just a royal dish! Rice, and potatoes, and just fresh bread will suit him.
Ingredients
• A pound of liver beef, chicken, turkey or rabbit
• One onion
• One large ripe tomato
• A spoon of tomato paste or ketchup - optional
• Clove of garlic
• Two spoons of sour cream
• Ground black pepper
• Pepper Scented Peas
• Bud of carnations
• Dill and basil herbs
• Oil for frying.
Method of preparation
Prepare the liver properly - peel off the films, if any, wash, chop.
Pour oils into the bowl of the multicooker and put the liver, turn on the Frying program for 10 minutes.
Chop onions finely.
Dip the tomato in boiling water, pull out, remove the skin, finely chop.
Turn the liver over, fill it with onions, turn on another 10 minutes for Frying. Put the tomatoes, spices, mix and allow to fry for another 5 minutes.
All of the above manipulations can be made in the pan, not in the slow cooker.
Stir sour cream with a half cup of water and, if necessary, ketchup or tomato paste - when used, the dish will be more “tomato”.
At the end of frying, combine the liver, onion, tomato and sour cream mixture in the crock-pot.
Salt and extinguish mode for 20 minutes.
After the signal, fill in the chopped fresh greens and hold for five minutes before serving.
Liver chops with sour cream in a slow cooker
For chops fit liver of a large size - chicken is hardly useful here. It can be turkey liver, beef or pork. These chops, of course, are served fried, but in this case, it is useful to put out liver chops in sour cream in a slow cooker: the dish will turn out to be more tender and saturated in taste.
Ingredients
• A piece of liver with a half a kilo weight
• Two spoons of sour cream
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Soy sauce - a couple of spoons
• One or two eggs
• Three spoons of flour
• Clove of garlic
• Provencal herbs or a splash of other spices to taste
• Three spoons of cooking oil.
Method of preparation
Liver wash, clean from films and ducts. Cut into flat pieces with a thickness of 1-2 cm. To better do this, you can freeze the liver.
Carefully and gently repel pieces, pour soy sauce, pepper, leave for five minutes.
Pour oil into a skillet or pan.
Dip pieces of liver in a stirred egg, then in flour and put in butter.
Fry in a pan to the crust or in a slow cooker in the Frying mode for 10 minutes on each side.
Crush the garlic.
In the bowl of the multicooker, sprinkle pieces of the liver with garlic, herbs, and grease them with sour cream.
Turn on quenching mode for 20 minutes.
Serve with potatoes, rice or just fresh vegetables.
Liver patties in a slow cooker with sour cream
Unusual recipe for liver patties - very juicy and tender, this is achieved by adding fat. It is surprising a large amount of garlic, but in the finished dish there is no sharp garlic taste or smell, it conveys its flavors to the entire liver mass and enriches the burgers. You can take any liver, you can try to cook a chicken liver cutlet in a multicooker with sour cream using this recipe.
Ingredients
• Chicken or beef liver - 500 grams
• Raw lard - not salty - 200 grams
• Whole garlic head
• Salt and pepper to taste
• A teaspoon of baking soda
• Two spoons of flour or semolina
• Two onions
• A glass of sour cream
• Vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
Liver wash, remove streaks, cut into pieces.
Also cut the fat.
Peel the garlic.
Grind the liver, lard and garlic.
In the resulting stuffing add soda, salt, pepper.
Pour the flour or semolina and, mixing, let stand for half an hour.
In the pan or in the bowl of the slow cooker, fry the chops, spreading the mass with a spoon. In a slow cooker, use Baking mode for 10-15 minutes.
Make the sauce: finely chopped onion fry in a spoonful of butter until golden brown. Put sour cream, salt it, let it boil.
In a multicooker bowl, spread out the patties and cover them abundantly with sauce. If one layer does not fit, make a few.
Set Quenching mode for 20 minutes.
Serve cutlets with vegetables or any side dish.
Chicken liver in a slow cooker with sour cream and mushrooms
Mushrooms and onions to the liver, cream to sour cream for the sauce - this dish has more ingredients than ordinary stewed liver, and the taste is richer. At the same time, the dish turns out to be quite light, because champignons, carrots and onions do not add weight, but on the contrary, “dilute” the liver.
Ingredients
• Chicken Liver - half a kilo
• Two large or three medium bulbs
• Large carrot
• 100 grams of champignons
• 100 grams of sour cream • 100 grams of cream
• One egg
• 50 grams of durum cheese
• Salt to taste
• Vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
Peel and shred the bow.
Heat the oil and put onion to brown it - until golden brown.
Cut carrots into cubes.
Put to the onion, fry for about five minutes.
Liver cut into slices and send to vegetables. It should be lightly browned.
Cut the champignon into suitable pieces, depending on the size. Add to liver. Fire another five minutes.
Fold the fried ingredients in the multicooker bowl. Salt to taste.
Beat eggs slightly, mix with sour cream and cream.
Pour the mixture of the multicasting bowl with this mixture.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Set the Baking program for 30 minutes. After the signal, let stand for another 10 minutes and serve.
Tricks and tips of cooking liver in a slow cooker with sour cream
- Before you roll the liver in flour, you can mix the flour with salt and black pepper. Then the dish no longer needs to be salted and pepper, during frying it will be saturated with the desired tastes, and the flour will seize with a golden crust.
- To clear the pork or beef liver from the shell, you need to lower it into boiling water for a second. Then the film is quite easily removed.
- In those recipes where you first need to fry foods, you can do this in a pan or in a slow cooker by selecting the Frying or Baking modes.
