The liver is an incredibly healthy and tasty product that can be cooked in many different ways. Particularly successful snacks: light, simple, but very fragrant, and even unusual.
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Liver Snack - General Cooking Principles
For appetizers, you can use any type of liver, but beef offal is especially appreciated. Chicken liver is the most tender, but has an irregular shape. Because of this, it is difficult to cut it into neat straws or cubes. But for the twisted dishes, it is great. The cheapest pork liver, but it has an unpleasant bitterness. Therefore, before using it is desirable to soak the pieces in milk. Beef liver is also sometimes soaked to improve taste.
What are liver appetizers for?
• different types of vegetables;
• eggs;
• cheese of different types;
• mushrooms.
Adding spices, garlic, various greens, with which the liver is perfectly combined, is welcomed. All snacks are intended for direct consumption and are not stored for a long time, a maximum of 2-3 days in the refrigerator.
Spicy liver appetizer with onions and cucumbers
The option is very tasty and interesting snacks from the liver with spicy dressing. Ideal for a festive table. If desired, a portion of pickled cucumbers can be replaced with mushrooms. With them, too, it turns out very interesting.
Ingredients
• 400 g of liver;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• 2 onions;
• 4 tbsp. l oils;
• spoon of vinegar;
• 1 tsp. mustard;
• salt pepper.
Cooking
1. Rinse the liver, cut into several pieces, put in boiling water and boil for 15 minutes, then remove, cool. It is best to cook such a snack from beef or pork liver, as the chicken will not work beautifully chopped.
2. Cut the onion into half rings, lay in a colander, pour over boiling water. It is necessary to get rid of bitterness. Add a bite to the bow, stir, let it marinate.
3. Cut the cucumbers into strips, you can use salted or pickled vegetables, but the taste will be different. 4. Cut the boiled liver into strips.
5. Connect all products. Add pickled onion in vinegar. Stir.
6. Combine the vegetable oil with mustard and spices. For a very spicy snack you can add more mustard. Also, if it is purchased and not too yadren, put a double rate. Grind foods until smooth.
7. Pour the sauce into the appetizer, stir, fold into a container and pack a little. Put in the fridge for a couple of hours.
Liver snack in eggs
The recipe is very tasty and nourishing stuffed eggs. For such a liver snack you need a little. You can use chicken by-product.
Ingredients
• a dozen eggs;
• 50 mayonnaise or sour cream;
• 200 g of liver;
• a clove of garlic;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Liver for this snack can be boiled or fried in a pan. Cook in any way, cool.
2. Twist the slices or chop the blender, add mayonnaise and sour cream, pepper and salt, squeeze the garlic, thoroughly stir until smooth.
3. Boiled eggs clean. Cut in half. Do this carefully so as not to damage the protein. We remove yolks. They can be crushed and added to the liver or used for other purposes.
4. Fill the halves of eggs with the liver mass, spread on the dish, decorate with fresh greens.
Korean carrot liver snack
Option of a very fragrant Korean liver snack. Salad dressings will be required, but you can assemble them yourself. To do this, mix different types of pepper, coriander, sweet paprika, saffron and other spices at their discretion.
Ingredients
• 2 carrots;
• 80 ml of oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tsp. Korean spices;
• 300 g of liver;
• 2 tsp. vinegar;
• 1 tsp. Sahara;
• 30 ml soy sauce.
Cooking
1. Grate the carrot into large strips, as for Korean salads. Sprinkle with vinegar. Add sugar, season with spices and mash with hands, let it marinate.
2. Squeeze the garlic over the carrot, but do not stir it.
3. Cut the liver into a long straw. Well, if she frostbitten. If necessary, you can soak in milk. 4. Heat the butter in a wide skillet, lay out the pieces and fry on medium heat over medium. It does not take much time.
5. At the end add soy sauce to the liver. We warm up for a moment. Now we make sure that nothing burns, as the sauce has a propensity for this.
6. Remove the liver from the heat and shift to the carrots with garlic. Quickly stir and cover the pot so that the flavors do not evaporate.
7. We give a snack for about half an hour, then put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Liver appetizer with cheese and garlic
The whole charm of this liver snack is universality. It can be used as spreads for sandwiches, egg filling or pita bread rolls, laid out in tartlets. Cheese can be used any. If the product is melted, the amount of mayonnaise will have to be slightly reduced.
Ingredients
• 350 grams of liver;
• 150 grams of mayonnaise;
• three cloves of garlic;
• onion head;
• two spoons of butter;
• 160 grams of cheese;
• greens, spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the onion, fry in butter until soft. Strong fire not to do. At the end add chopped garlic, stir and turn off.
2. For this recipe, you can simply boil the liver or fry it in oil, but not much to brown. Then chill the pieces. We twist through the meat grinder together with onions and garlic.
3. Grate the cheese finely, shift it to the liver.
4. Chop the greens, pour. Pepper and salt to taste.
5. Add mayonnaise for viscosity. Similarly, you can use sour cream. For dietary recipes, white yogurt is suitable.
6. Snack to mix, use for different dishes and sandwiches. Keep in the refrigerator in a sealed container for no more than two days.
Snack from liver roll
Variant of delicious liver roll from the liver, it is better to use beef by-product. Cheese for the filling is needed soft.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of beef liver;
• 200 g of oil;
• 2 bulbs;
• carrot;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• spices, greens.
Cooking
1. Boil until liver liver, cut into pieces, remove from broth, cool. 2. Cut the onions with carrots, put in a skillet with a little oil and fry until soft. The rest of the oil is kept in a warm place so that it does not freeze.
3. We twist the liver with the third part of roasted vegetables through a meat grinder.
4. Add to the liver butter, spices. Stir the mass until a homogeneous paste.
5. Put a layer of liver on a sheet of foil or on parchment paper.
6. Cover with a second sheet of paper or parchment, roll it through with a rolling pin so that the layer is even and dense. We remove for 20 minutes in the freezer.
7. Grind the garlic.
8. We get a blank for the roll. Remove the top layer of foil or parchment, lubricate the liver with cream cheese.
9. Sprinkle with garlic and vegetables that remain.
10. We twist the roll, wrap in foil and put in a refrigerator for a couple of hours, let it get stronger. When serving cut into slices across.
Snack from liver in champignons
Variant of a wonderful champignon snack. We choose the most even and beautiful mushrooms with large hats.
Ingredients
• 10 champignons;
• onion;
• 150 g of liver;
• mayonnaise or sour cream;
• butter;
• 50 grams of cheese;
• a clove of garlic;
• some greens.
Cooking
1. Carefully remove the legs from the champignons. Season the hats with spices, smear with mayonnaise or sour cream, put in the oven and bake at 200 degrees for a quarter of an hour.
2. Cut the onions and legs of mushrooms, put in a griddle, fry for three minutes.
3. Dice livers, add to the pan and bring to readiness with onions and mushrooms. Cool it down.
4. Grind the liver mass, add chopped garlic.
5. Grate cheese, put in the filling. Salt, pepper, add as much mayonnaise to make a pie.
6. Remove the cooked caps from the oven and cool.
7. Fill the champignons with the filling, decorate with greens and the liver appetizer is ready!
Appetizer of liver “Rolls with filling”
The recipe is another great rolls, but they are baked from liver pancakes. You can put absolutely any food inside, here is cheese with eggs and mayonnaise. Ingredients
• 400 g of liver;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tbsp. l flour;
• spices.
For the filling:
• three eggs;
• 200 g of cheese (we take absolutely any);
• a clove of garlic;
• greens and mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Grind the liver, add eggs, salt and shake well a lot. Add flour, stir the resulting dough.
2. Heat the pan, grease, pour a little dough and smooth it. Bake not fat pancake. As soon as it is reddened, we overturn.
3. From this amount of dough will make 3-4 pancakes, depending on the width of the pan. Naturally, the rolls will be the same.
4. Rub boiled eggs, chop cheese, greens, add garlic to taste, various spices. Stir and carefully fill the filling with mayonnaise. It is important that it does not turn out liquid.
5. Put a little curd on a pancake, smear, roll it up. Do the same with the rest of the liver cakes.
6. Remove the rolls in the fridge for an hour. Let them soak, get stronger. Before serving, the appetizer should be cut into small pieces.
Liver Snack - Tips and Tricks
• No milk to soak the liver? You can use the cooled black tea and even with sugar. The taste of the product from this will only improve.
• If you need to fry the liver until golden brown, you can first roll the pieces in flour or add a little soy sauce at the very end.
• When frying large pieces or plates of the liver, you must first beat the product with a hammer. Then it will definitely turn out gentle.
• Liver loves different spices and can be added safely when boiling the product. Bay leaf, greens, peppercorns, carrots and onions in broth will not be superfluous.
