The liver is a product that far from everyone loves. And all because of its dryness and specific taste. In fact, from the liver you can cook the most tender and juicy dish - pancakes.
They are great for a variety of side dishes, for sandwiches, can serve as a good snack, and most importantly - useful.
In addition, a big plus pancake from beef liver is the ease of preparation and availability of ingredients.
Beef liver fritters - general principles of cooking
Beef liver has a lot of films and veins that are difficult to remove, requires a little skill. But it's okay if the part remains.
The product is still crushed, and with it the veins.
Washed and cleaned liver is cut into slices and passed through a meat grinder, scrolled in a combine or chopped with a blender.
What else is added to the pancakes:
• Eggs. They bind the ingredients, do not allow pancakes to fall apart, make it easy to turn over during frying.
• Flour. It thickens the dough, absorbs the secreted juices, combines all components.
• Vegetables. Dilute the liver taste, give the dish juiciness, tenderness.
• Spices. In addition to salt, you can add pepper, meat seasonings, paprika, nutmeg, and more to the dough.
Also in the dough can go dairy products: cream, sour cream, kefir. Mayonnaise is sometimes added. Often cook fritters with cereals, mushrooms and other products that help diversify the taste.
Served fritters on their own or with side dishes. As a sauce, you can use sour cream or its mixture with greens, garlic, pepper and salt. Sometimes pancakes are stewed in gravy after roasting, which makes the products even more tender.
Recipe 1: Beef liver pancakes
The most common recipe for beef liver pancakes, many people know and cook it that way. With all the simplicity, the dish turns out gentle, juicy, the dryness of the main product is not felt at all. Ingredients
• half a kilo of liver;
• onion;
• 2 eggs;
• spoon of sour cream;
• 2-3 tablespoons of flour (you can put semolina);
• spices;
• garlic clove.
Cooking
1. Wash the liver, remove visible films and cut into slices that will easily pass through the meat grinder.
2. Peel the onions with garlic, cut into several pieces.
3. We pass a liver and vegetables through a meat grinder with a small strainer. Add salt, flour, pepper, sour cream and break eggs. If you put semolina, then you need to let the dough stand for half an hour so that the croup swells. Mix mass with a spoon.
4. Heat the oil in the pan. For a dietary dish, you can use non-stick dishes and cook without fat or lightly lubricate the surface to form an appetizing crust.
5. Spoon the dough, put it in the pan in the form of fritters and fry on both sides until cooked. It usually takes 1-1.5 minutes for each side. Put the finished pancakes on a paper towel to absorb excess fat.
Recipe 2: Beef liver fritters with rice
The addition of rice gives the beef liver pancakes additional satiety, the croup dilutes the taste and the dishes get much more. Serve it with side dishes or independently.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of liver;
• 100 grams of dry rice;
• 2 onions;
• spices;
• some flour.
Cooking
1. Rice must be washed, then boiled in water until cooked, but the grains must remain intact. Water is drained.
2. Pass the liver with onions through a meat grinder and mix with boiled rice.
3. We add salt, pepper, you can add any seasoning. Put 2-3 spoons of flour, bring the dough to the desired thickness. If you need thin pancakes, for example, for sandwiches, then do not put a lot of flour. For plump and fluffy meatballs, you need to move the dough thicker.
4. Fry the pancakes in hot oil. Or grease a baking sheet with butter, spread the resulting dough and cook in the oven.
Recipe 3: Beef liver fritters with zucchini
Well, cook the same pancakes from zucchini, and made from the liver. Why not combine these two recipes? The result will be useful, light and juicy beef liver pancakes with squash flavor. A wonderful summer meal.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of zucchini;
• 400 grams of liver;
• 2 bulbs;
• carrot;
• 2 eggs;
• 5 tablespoons of flour;
• spices;
• parsley.
Cooking
1. Clean the zucchini, three on a fine grater. If the vegetable is too juicy, then you can slightly squeeze.
2. Onions and carrots are cleaned, cut into pieces for grinding in a meat grinder. But at will, you can just chop or grate.
3. Wash the liver, also cut into arbitrary slices. Large and visible films can be removed immediately.
4. Pass all prepared ingredients through a meat grinder, mix with grated zucchini, add chopped parsley, eggs, flour. Do not forget the salt and pepper dough.
5. Fry the pancakes in a pan, serve with sour cream.
Recipe 4: Beef liver fritters with carrots
The peculiarity of these beef liver pancakes is the beautiful color and unusual taste. Carrots before adding need to fry in a pan. But if you want to cook a lower-calorie version, then you can simply stew with a small amount of water or bake the vegetables in the oven.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of liver;
• 250 grams of carrots;
• onion;
• 2 eggs;
• 40 grams of flour;
• spices;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Clean the carrots, three finely and fry in a pan with butter. It is not necessary to fry strongly, slightly browned.
2. Crush the liver with the onion. You can skip through a meat grinder or just punch through a blender.
3. Mix the liver mass with carrots, add flour, eggs, salt. You can put any spices for meat.
4. Fry carrot pancakes with liver on both sides until golden brown. You can also serve them with any side dishes, salads, fresh and pickled vegetables.
Recipe 5: Beef liver fritters with a surprise
The recipe for stunning beef liver pancakes with a filling. Hard cheese is used as a filling, but if desired, any other processed product can be taken. Similarly, you can cook pancakes with other fillings: vegetables, mushrooms, greens. But the fillings should not be too much, put a little bit.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of liver;
• 60 grams of cheese;
• garlic clove;
• onion;
• some flour;
• spices;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Rub finely cheese, also garlic and just mix together. Putting stuffing to the side. If desired, you can add hot peppers, chopped greens.
2. Crush the liver with onions. Enter all the other ingredients, knead the dough. It is very important that the mass is not too thick. Fritters should be thin.
3. Pour oil into the pan, spoon thin pancakes. Immediately put a little cheese filling in the center and pour dough on top again. As soon as the product is fried on one side, we turn it over and turn red with the second. The fire should not be too big for the liver to cook inside, and the cheese to melt.
4. Such pancakes can be served with any side dish, consumed as a separate dish or also put on a sandwich.
Recipe 6: Beef liver fritters with mushrooms
For the preparation of these pancakes need mushrooms. You can use regular champignons, fresh or frozen. You can also take forest mushrooms, but they must first be boiled for 15 minutes in boiling water. You can add pickled mushrooms to the liver dough, but in this case, remember that they already contain salt, cut it very finely.
Ingredients
• half a kilo of liver;
• half a cup of kefir;
• 300 grams of mushrooms;
• onion;
• 2 eggs;
• pinch of soda;
• 60 grams of flour.
Cooking
1. Mushrooms cut not very large, fry in a pan. If raw champignons are used, then about 5 minutes. If boiled mushrooms, then 2 minutes is enough. Marinated products do not need to fry, well, decant the liquid and finely cut. 2. Shred finely onion, send to the mushrooms. Cooking together for another two minutes, if desired, at the end, you can add chopped cloves of garlic.
3. The liver is twisted in a meat grinder.
4. Add some soda to kefir, mix. Once the reaction is over, mix it with the liver. Pour into the total mass of mushrooms, break eggs. Salt the dough and fill with flour, pepper to taste. Give the mass to stand for half an hour.
5. Fry the pancakes in the usual way, you can bake in the oven.
Recipe 7: Liver Fritters with Cream Sauce
Option cooking pancakes, which simply melt in your mouth. For the sauce will need cream or sour cream, fat content can be any. This sauce is especially well combined with rice, buckwheat and pasta.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of liver;
• 2 eggs;
• 2 onions;
• 4 tablespoons flour;
• salt;
• nutmeg.
For the sauce:
• 300 ml of water;
• 300 ml of cream;
• garlic clove;
• onion;
• butter;
• a spoon of flour.
Cooking
1. Remove films from the liver, remove ducts. Cut into slices and skip through a meat grinder. Similarly, grind the peeled bulb onions.
2. Add eggs, flour, a pinch of nutmeg and salt, pour out the flour and knead the dough.
3. Fry the pancakes on both sides, set aside, we will prepare the sauce.
4. Clean the onion, cut into small cubes. Chop the garlic.
5. Put the pan on the stove, pour a little oil and fry the onion. At the end we throw garlic.
6. Dilute the flour with water, pour it into the pan, let the sauce boil, reduce the heat and boil for 2 minutes. We salt, we pepper.
7. Pour the cream into the sauce, let it boil and immediately put all the liver pancakes in the pan, cover with the lid and turn it on. You do not need to simmer, just let it stand for 15 minutes and you can take a sample.
Beef liver fritters - tips and tricks
• Instead of wheat flour in the dough for beef liver pancakes you can put semolina, products will be more lush and airy. You can also add corn flour, rice, buckwheat, oatmeal, and even bran. The dish will be much more useful and enriched with fiber. But pancakes with breadcrumbs are especially tasty. • To prevent the liver from getting bitter, the product can be cut into slices and filled with fresh milk. Soak for at least half an hour. The same technique allows you to make the liver juicier and more tender before the hot pieces.
• Not only fresh vegetables can be put into liver pancakes, but also fried. From this they will only taste better. In addition to onions and carrots, they can also add cabbage, eggplant, bell pepper, pumpkin and even potatoes. Experiment and create new tastes in your kitchen!
• If the dough for liver pancakes stays a little in the fridge, it will become thicker. Consider this fact if you do not plan to fry the product immediately and put in less flour.
• Do fritters break during frying, do not turn over and do not hold their shape well? Just add one more egg to the dough, you can add some flour.
