A way to boil beef liver
Products
Beef liver - 650-900 grams
Milk (water) - 300 milliliters
Pepper to taste
Salt to taste
How to prepare the liver for cooking
- The liver is covered with a film, very dense and elastic, like polyethylene. This film must be removed so that the liver is softer and definitely not bitter. For ease of cleaning, you can slightly soften the film - put the liver in a saucepan with warm (60-70 degrees) water for 3 minutes.
- Pry the film with your fingers and remove it from all parts of the liver, using a knife if necessary.
- If large veins are visible on the liver sections, they must be cut out - cut the liver into several pieces and "uproot" the veins with a knife, similar to how potato "eyes" are cut out.
- Soak the liver in milk or water for 30-40 minutes.
- Dip the liver into a saucepan with boiling water (if necessary, cut into pieces quickly), watch the foam for the first few minutes.
- Boil whole beef liver , in pieces - 20 minutes, add salt at the end of cooking.
Pierce the liver with a knife to check the readiness: if within a few seconds no pinkish juice has formed at the puncture site and the knife passes easily, then the liver is cooked. - Store the boiled liver in the broth in which it was cooked until serving. As we can see, the liver boiled down from the initial 630 to 384 grams.
How to cook beef liver in a double boiler
Peel and soak the liver, chop coarsely, spread evenly in a steamer container, pour water into a special tank. Turn on the double boiler, cook for 40 minutes (sliced - 20 minutes).
How to cook beef liver in a slow cooker
Wash the liver, peel, soak in water or milk, put in a multicooker saucepan, the cooking time after boiling water is 40 minutes.
How to cook beef liver in a pressure cooker
Set the pressure cooker for 10 minutes, put the soaked liver in a whole piece, after the end of cooking wait for the pressure to drop, salt the water and insist the liver in it.
How to cook beef liver for a child
for children over 10 months
1. The liver is served to children only in boiled form with a minimum addition of salt, cook for 10 minutes longer.
2. Before serving, grind the boiled liver with a blender or meat grinder to a puree consistency; additionally, you can mix it with mashed boiled vegetables.
Fusofacts
- Thanks useful properties, often beef liver is used to treat anemia or remove cholesterol from the body. Eating beef liver promotes wound healing. It is recommended for pregnant women for the beneficial development of the fetus. Beef liver contains carbohydrates, fats and proteins at the same time, so it is optimal with diets.- High quality fresh liver is dark red, without any damage, with a smooth surface and a pleasant smell.
- The downside of improper cooking of the liver is that it bitter... Soaking in milk will solve this problem and make the product soft. If you cook the liver with the addition of cream or sour cream, then pre-soaking is not required.
- Frozen beef liver can be stored up to six months, and boiled should be stored for no longer than two days in the refrigerator in a hermetically sealed container.
- Calorie content boiled liver - 100 kcal / 100 grams.
- Average liver cost - from 240 rubles / kilogram (on average in Moscow as of May 2016).
- Salting the liver is necessary at the end of cooking so that it does not become hard.
- To accurately distinguish beef liver from pork, know: pork liver has a mesh grain on its surface. The surface of the beef liver is thin and smooth, shiny due to the film.Even when cutting the liver, pay attention to the bile ducts: they can only be in the beef liver, in the pork liver they are not.
- When choosing beef liver, pay attention to the color: high-quality liver is only dark red or dark brown. It is not recommended to buy light, pale and yellow liver.
- If the finished liver is bitter, there are 2 options:
1) stew the liver with vegetables (onions, carrots) and the addition of sugar;
2) mix sour cream and tomato ketchup (preferably sweet), simmer in this sauce.
How to make boiled liver pate
ProductsFresh beef liver - half a kilo
Onions - 1 head
Carrots - 1 piece
Milk - 3 tablespoons in a pate and half a cup for soaking the liver
Butter - 3 cm cube
Lard (salted lard) - 55 grams
How to make a pate
1. Peel and grate the carrots, finely chop the onion.
2. Peel the liver from the film, wash, cut into cubes 3-4 centimeters side, put in a bowl and pour over milk.
3. Keep the liver in milk for 40 minutes.
4. Drain the milk, pour boiling water over the liver and put on fire, cook the beef liver for 20 minutes after boiling.
5. Fry vegetables with the addition of 1 tablespoon of water, add boiled liver, fry for 15-20 minutes until tender. Alternatively, in the recipe, you can add raw liver to vegetables, then simmer the liver along with vegetables for 30 minutes.
6. Pass the result through a meat grinder twice, add butter and milk.
7. Stir well, you can form a paste in any shape (usually a ball), cool, wrapped in cling film, and serve with pleasure. :)
How to stew beef liver in sour cream
Products Beef liver - 0.5 kilogramsSour cream - 200 milliliters
Onion - 1 small onion
Carrots - 1 small
Dill, parsley, salt and pepper - to taste
How to make a liver in sour cream
1. Cut the beef liver into strips.
2. Heat the pan, pour sunflower oil on the bottom (so that the entire bottom is covered with oil), put in the pan and pour water over 1 centimeter above the liver.
3. Cook the beef liver for 10 minutes, transfer the liver with broth to a saucepan.
4. Peel the onion, chop finely and fry in butter.
5. Peel and rub the carrots on a fine grater.
6. Add onions, carrots, spices and sour cream to the liver.
7. Simmer for 20 minutes, add herbs and stir, simmer for another 10 minutes.
Boiled liver salad
Products for 2 servingsBoiled beef liver - 250 grams
Arugula - 30 grams
Red onion - half a head
Cucumber - 1 piece
Tomato - 1 piece
Vegetable (olive, sunflower or corn) oil - 20 grams
Salt and black pepper - to taste
How to make beef liver salad Boil the beef liver, cut into thin shavings. Cut the cucumber into strips, chop the arugula. Cut the onion into thin half rings. Cut the tomato into cubes. Put the products in a bowl, season with salt and pepper, season with oil and stir.
