The liver is the most healthy by-product. Her taste and nutritional value has long been highly appreciated by real chefs.
Dishes from the liver low-calorie, quickly digested. Moreover, their nutritional level is significant.
Chicken liver, beef like no other product is very suitable to prepare from her dietary dishes, tasty and varied.
Thanks to them, you can eat tasty and not gain extra pounds.
And the time spent on cooking, insignificant.
Dietary liver dishes - general cooking principles
The quality of the selected product is already half of the successful cooking.
The liver needs a little hold in the fridge. Then release from the films, rinse and blot with a paper napkin to remove blood residue.
Cut into cubes of about 15 mm and pour in milk - it will soften and taste better. A teaspoon of granulated sugar will help the liver become more suitable for further cooking.
Instead of fresh milk, an already sour or low-fat kefir is also used.
You can cook dishes in a double boiler, bake in pots, silicone tins or in heat-resistant glassware.
When baking in the oven, the temperature is 180 degrees. Cooking time ranges from twenty minutes to fifty.
Liver is an inexpensive and healthy product that goes well with any side dish: rice, baked without fat potatoes, green beans, and leafy salads.
Tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers are also ideal. You can use pumpkin, rosemary and basil. Not bad in adding turmeric and oregano to the dish.
Depending on the recipe, the dish can be served both hot and cold.
1. Liver diets: muffins
A full main dish, containing light and dietary chicken liver and healthy vegetables. The original way of serving will definitely increase your appetite. The dish will appeal to those who do not particularly like the liver. Ingredients:
• 200 grams of chicken liver.
• 2 tbsp. spoons of low-fat sour cream.
• Bulgarian pepper.
• Two carrots.
• Egg.
• 2 tbsp. spoons of flour.
• Onion.
• Two potatoes.
• 50 grams of hard cheese.
• 20 grams of oil.
• Salt.
Cooking Method:
Place chicken liver in a blender together with egg, sour cream and flour and chop. Add salt to taste.
Boil the potatoes and turn it into a puree, combining with butter.
Boil the carrot, cool and chop finely. Onion and pepper nashinkovat. All vegetables mix.
Grate a slice of hard cheese.
Prepare molds for muffins and put two tablespoons of liver mixture into them. Then put the mashed potatoes with vegetables. Top - again the ball of the liver mixture.
Sprinkle with two pinches of grated cheese and send to the oven (180 degrees) for twenty minutes.
2. Dietary liver dishes: salad with carrots
Dish suitable for home use. They can be treated and visiting friends. A light and nourishing salad at the same time will fill you with energy and will delight you with a sweet-bitter taste.
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of beef liver.
• Carrot.
• Red sweet onions.
• 200 grams of lettuce leaves.
• Olive oil.
• Pinch of basil.
• Salt.
Cooking Method:
Prepared liver should be cut into thin strips. Put on a dry frying pan and fry for half a minute. Then add water, salt and extinguish until cooked.
Boil carrots and grate finely. Onion chopped into half rings.
Coarsely chop the salad.
Put liver, carrot, onion in a salad bowl and mix. Add lettuce leaves and two tablespoons of olive oil. Salt a little, sprinkle with basil and mix.
3. Dietary liver dishes: steam cutlets
A dish cooked in a double boiler is no less tasty than fried meatballs. Pepper and rocket will decorate not only the type of dish, but also its taste.
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of chicken liver. • 100 grams of carrot.
• Onion.
• Egg.
• Bulgarian pepper.
• Arugula.
• Salt.
Cooking Method:
Prepare a meat grinder and grind the liver. Then chop the onion and carrot in the same way.
Add the minced meat a little, add the egg and mix well.
Use hands to make cutlets from mince and place them in a double boiler. Cook for about half an hour.
While the cutlets are being prepared, cut the Bulgarian pepper into thin plates. Wash arugula and dry with a paper napkin or towel.
Put cutlets on a plate, on top of each put a few plates of pepper and a pair of arugula leaves.
4. Liver diets: pate
A great option for a delicious breakfast or snack. Sandwiches with thin pieces of pate are prepared very simply and quickly.
Ingredients:
• 500 grams of chicken liver.
• Carrot.
• Two onions.
• 50 grams of butter.
• Salt, pepper.
Cooking Method:
Sliced pieces of the liver put out in salted water.
Cut the carrots into a medium cube, cut the onion into pieces and add to the pan.
Stew twenty minutes. Cool the mixture.
Move the liver with vegetables into a blender and chop. Salt and pepper. Add butter and beat a little more.
Pour broth from the pan, mix. If necessary, you can pour two or three tablespoons of water (hot).
Pour ready-made pate on cling film and make a roll. For half an hour, place in the refrigerator. Serve, cut into pieces or spread on bread. Top tuck green onions.
5. Dietary liver dishes: cucumber salad
The dish can be cooked on a festive table. At the height of summer, such a salad diversifies the menu and will bring both benefits and pleasure.
Ingredients:
• 120 grams of chicken liver.
• Four cucumbers.
• Feta cheese - 100 gr.
• Polpuchka green onions.
• 10 grams of arugula and spinach.
• 50 grams of walnuts.
• Salt.
• Pepper. • Soy sauce.
• Pitted olives.
Cooking Method:
Cook in salted water liver to readiness. Cut into small pieces.
With the cucumbers remove the skin and cut into smaller cubes. Chop green onions very finely.
Mix the liver, onion and cucumber, add a little soy sauce.
We spread the mixture in the culinary ring.
Turn nuts into a crumb with a blender or rolling pin. A few pinches poured on the liver salad.
Greens are washed and dried. We spread the leaves on a plate with the liver mixture in the ring.
Top with slices of feta, a few olives and pour a little soy sauce. You can pepper a little.
6. Dietary liver dishes in the oven
Simple and very simple recipe for healthy and fragrant dishes.
Ingredients:
• Beef liver - 0.400 kg.
• Two spoons of Art. wheat flour and sunflower oil.
• A pinch of salt.
• Pepper ground.
Cooking method:
Salted and seasoned liver slices cut into medium plates.
Lay out baking paper and saturate with vegetable oil.
Dip the liver pieces in flour and place on a baking sheet. They should not touch each other. Each of the pieces on top of grease with oil.
Place the form in the oven and bake in the usual way. Once the liver pieces need to be turned.
Serve chilled. Sprinkle with greens on top and decorate with slices of fresh vegetables: sweet peppers and tomatoes.
7. Dietary liver dishes: pumpkin baked with cheese
Autumn recipe for cooking liver with pumpkin. The combination of healthy and palatable ingredients.
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of chicken liver.
• 400 grams of pumpkin.
• Rosemary sprig.
• Pinch of black pepper and salt.
• 100 grams of sour cream.
• Two cloves of garlic.
• 0.100 kg of Dutch cheese.
• Two Art. spoons of sunflower refined oil.
Cooking Method:
Boil chicken liver until half ready in a small amount of water and sunflower oil. Season with salt and pepper. Extinguish the pumpkin peeled and cut into pieces. Salt and pepper.
Chop the garlic and the sprig of rosemary very finely.
In prepared pots, place liver, pumpkin and sprinkle first with garlic, then rosemary.
Put sour cream on top and spread evenly over the surface, sprinkle hard cheese.
Bake in the oven for half an hour (200 degrees).
8. Dietary liver dishes: stews
Cooked stew will serve as an excellent filling for lunch or dinner. Mexican vegetable mix combines well with a liver and a classic pair: potatoes and onions.
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of chicken liver.
• Two potatoes.
• Half onions.
• 150 grams of Mexican vegetable mix.
• Two pinch of salt
• Marjoram.
• Sunflower oil.
Cooking Method:
Wash vegetables, peel and chop them: potatoes - medium cubes, onions - half rings.
Onion in a deep saucepan, adding two tablespoons of sunflower oil.
Pour a glass of water and bring it to a boil. Pour the potatoes into a skillet.
Add Mexican mix and mix. Salt
To simmer under the closed lid until the vegetables are half cooked.
Liver chop very finely.
Shift the vegetables on one side of the saucepan, and on the other place the pieces of offal. Salt with a pinch of salt.
After five minutes, mix the liver, and after another ten minutes - mix with vegetables.
Add marjoram and simmer until tender.
The dish can be served immediately hot. But it will not lose its taste even after it cools.
9. Dietary dishes from the liver in a double boiler
Using a double boiler, you can cook not only the usual burgers, but also more sophisticated dishes. In their composition - some wine and overseas spices.
Ingredients:
• 0,250 kg beef liver.
• Three Art. spoons of white dry wine and olive oil.
• Half a cup of crackers for breading.
• Two garlic cloves.
• One onion.
• Salt, basil, nutmeg, oregano - to taste. Cooking Method:
The prepared by-product is cut into oblong thin slices. Salted.
Put in a steamer tray, which is designed for cooking cereals.
Pour in wine and three tablespoons of water at room temperature.
The dish is cooked for fifteen minutes.
Finely chop the garlic and onion. Add to the dish.
Pour olive oil and pour crackers and spices. Cook another fifteen minutes.
Cooked liver served with rice, green or cabbage salad.
Liver diet meals - tips and helpful tips
- A fresh and high-quality liver must be supple. When you click on it dents do not remain.
- It is advisable not to store the product, but rather to immediately prepare the intended dish.
- Remove the film from the surface of the liver can be easily, if a little salt it. The more salt crystals, the easier it is to separate.
- Under the influence of citric acid, beef liver film is also easier to remove.
- But it is best to put the offal in the refrigerator for half an hour and freeze slightly.
- To avoid bitterness in the finished dish, you need to remove all the channels in which bile traces can remain.
