From the liver you can cook many interesting and delicious dishes. Liver cake is the best of them. This dish will be eaten by both cheeks even those who do not like the liver.
Liver cake - the basic principles of preparation
Many housewives hesitate to cook a liver cake, believing that it is long and troublesome. Yes, you’ll have to tinker, but in fact, everything is not as scary as it seems.
Pancakes for the cake are made from chicken, beef or pork liver. It is better, of course, to use chicken offal, as the liver of the bird cooks faster and has a delicate taste. The liver is washed, remove all excess and pass through a meat grinder. In the resulting base for the test put eggs, sour cream and flour. To prevent pancakes from turning out rubber, lay eggs at the rate of one piece per 200 g of offal.
Pancakes are baked from the test, trying not to be too thick.
When all the pancakes are ready, begin to prepare the filling. To do this, peel and finely chop the onions. Peeled carrots are passed through large grater holes. Then the vegetables are fried until soft and cooled.
Mayonnaise or sour cream is used for the sauce. Garlic is squeezed into it through a press and mixed.
Then put a pancake on a flat dish, grease it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and lay out the vegetable filling. Cover with the next pancake and repeat the layers. So collect the cake until the pancakes and filling are over.
For decoration, you can use vegetables, eggs or corn.
In the layer, you can use slices of fresh tomato or green onions.
Recipe 1. Beef liver cake (step by step recipe)
Ingredients
beef liver - 400 g;
150 g mayonnaise;
three eggs;
fresh greens;
200 ml of milk;
50 ml of sunflower oil;
100 g of flour;
two onions;
sea salt;
two carrots;
a pinch of ground allspice.
Cooking method
1. We wash the liver under the tap, cut the film and cut into small pieces. Pass the offal through a meat grinder or grind in a blender.
2. In the liver mixture, add eggs, salt, pepper and, gradually pouring flour, knead the dough without the juices. Now pour the milk and shake well with a whisk.
3. Pour a little oil into the preheated pan. Take a little dough with a ladle and pour into a pan. Quickly distribute it on the bottom and bake a pancake on both sides, two minutes on each. Ready pancakes are cooled.
4. Peel and finely chop the onion. Three peeled and washed carrots. We pass the vegetables in sunflower oil until soft.
5. Put the pancake on a flat dish, grease it with mayonnaise and spread the fried vegetables. Cover with a second pancake and repeat the procedure. Thus, we collect the whole cake. We decorate it with chopped herbs and leave it to soak for an hour.
Recipe 2. Liver cake (step by step recipe) from chicken liver
Ingredients
chicken liver - 600 g;
salt;
three raw eggs;
parsley greens;
three boiled eggs for decoration;
two large onions;
garlic - three cloves;
two large carrots;
flour - 80 g;
small boiled carrots;
refined vegetable oil - 50 ml;
mayonnaise - 300 g;
20% sour cream - 100 ml.
Cooking method
1. We thoroughly wash the chicken liver and clean it from the gall bladders (if any) and films. Cut the offal into small pieces and place it in a bowl. Add eggs, fat sour cream and flour. Grind everything with a submersible blender until smooth. Salt and mix.
2. Heat a little oil in a pan. We pick up a little dough with a ladle, pour it into a pan and distribute it over the entire surface, turning from side to side.
3. Pancakes fry over moderate heat. As soon as the pancake begins to lag behind the walls, turn it over with a spatula and continue to fry until golden brown.
4. Bulbs are peeled and finely crumbled. Peel the carrots and three on a coarse grater. Fry vegetables over moderate heat for ten minutes. At the end, pepper and salt. Cool and divide into equal heaps by the number of pancakes.
5. Squeeze the peeled garlic in mayonnaise and mix.
6. Put the first pancake on a flat plate. We coat it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and distribute the fried vegetables. Cover with a second pancake and collect the cake, repeating the layers.
7. Separate the yolks from the proteins of the boiled eggs. We rub them separately and place in different plates.
8. Lubricate the top and sides of the liver cake with the sauce. Sprinkle the yolk on top, and sprinkle the sides with egg white. We make a boiled carrot rosette and decorate the cake with it. On the sides we lay out branches of greenery. We leave the finished cake soaked for several hours.
Recipe 3. Liver cake (step by step recipe) with cream cheese
Ingredients
Pancakes
half a kilogram of beef liver;
vegetable oil;
a glass of milk;
salt;
half a glass of flour;
two chicken eggs.
Stuffing 1
four onions;
vegetable oil;
two carrots.
Stuffing 2
100 g of processed cheese;
mayonnaise;
a bunch of dill;
garlic - two prongs.
Cooking method
1. We clean beef liver from veins and films. Cut the offal into slices and scroll through a meat grinder. Drive eggs into the resulting liver mixture, salt and shake. Pour the milk and continue to shake the whisk until smooth. Add flour and knead the dough without lumps.
2. Put the pan on the fire, pour in vegetable oil and heat it. Pour in about half of the soup ladle and fry until the pancake begins to lag behind the walls. Then carefully turn over with a spatula and fry for another three minutes. So fry all the pancakes and cool.
3. Cooking the first filling. We clean carrots and onions and wash them. Pass the carrots through the large holes of the grater. Onion finely chopped. Fry the vegetables until golden brown, transfer to a plate and cool.
4. Cooking the second filling. Finely three cheese. Rinse the greens, dry and grind. Add it to the cheese. Squeeze peeled garlic here. Add mayonnaise and mix.
5. Put the pancake on a flat plate, grease it with mayonnaise and spread the vegetable filling, distributing it throughout the pancake evenly. Cover with a second pancake and grease it with cheese filling. We continue to collect the cake, alternating the fillings. We put in the refrigerator for impregnation, then cut and serve.
Recipe 4. Liver cake (step by step recipe) with tomatoes and omelet
Ingredients
a pound of chicken liver;
black pepper;
four eggs;
salt;
white onion head;
200 g mayonnaise;
100 g of flour;
150 ml of milk;
two tomatoes;
two quail eggs;
greenery;
black olives.
Cooking method
1. Wash the liver, remove any excess and grind it through a meat grinder or in a blender. Add the egg and flour to the resulting mixture, mix so that not a single lump remains. Pour a couple of tablespoons of milk and shake with a whisk. Season with pepper and salt.
2. Heat a frying pan with a small amount of oil. Spread the liver mass with a spoon and evenly distribute it along the bottom. Cover and fry for about three minutes. Then gently turn over and fry for the same amount of time.
3. Beat three eggs with the remaining milk. Shake well with a whisk. Fry thin omelets from the resulting mixture.
4. Wash the tomatoes, wipe and cut into thin slices.
5. Now collect the cake in the following order: liver pancake, grease with mayonnaise, scrambled eggs, grease it with mayonnaise, tomato slices. Repeat the layers in this order until the liver pancakes run out. Decorate the cake of your choice and leave it in the refrigerator for several hours to soak.
Recipe 5. Liver cake (step by step recipe) in a slow cooker
Ingredients
400 g of pork liver;
vegetable oil;
two eggs;
black pepper;
two eggs;
salt;
50 g of flour;
70 g of hard cheese;
two onions;
100 g mayonnaise;
two carrots;
garlic - three prongs.
Cooking method
1. Washed and cleaned of all unnecessary liver pass through a meat grinder. We clean the onion. Finely crumble half and add to the liver mixture. We drive eggs here, salt, pepper and, gradually adding flour, beat everything well with a whisk.
2. Pour the resulting liver dough into a greased bowl. We install it in the device, close the lid and start the “baking” program. Cook for 25 minutes. We take out the cake using the steaming basket, turn it over and cook for another ten minutes.
3. Peeled onions finely chopped. Peel the carrots and grind them through large grater holes. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil, pepper, salt, until soft.
4. In the mayonnaise, squeeze the garlic through a press and mix.
5. Take the finished liver cake out of the bowl, cool on a wire rack and cut along half.
6. Put the bottom cake on a flat plate, coat it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and evenly distribute half the vegetable filling. Cover with a second cake.
7. The remaining vegetable filling, mix with sauce and grease the surface of the cake with the resulting mass. Sprinkle with finely grated cheese on top and put in the refrigerator for overnight soaking.
Recipe 6. Liver cake (step by step recipe) with eggplant
Ingredients
Dough
half a glass of milk;
half a kilogram of beef liver;
onion head;
two eggs;
salt;
a glass of wheat flour;
baking powder;
30 ml of vegetable oil.
Filling
150 g soft cheese;
eggplant;
mayonnaise;
a tomato;
50 g of walnuts;
two garlic cloves;
parsley and cilantro.
Cooking method
1. Twist the prepared liver with the onion through a meat grinder. Add eggs to the resulting mass, pour in milk and vegetable oil, add salt, baking powder. Slightly adding flour, knead the dough without lumps, the consistency of thick sour cream. Prepare thin pancakes from the dough.
2. Bake the eggplant in the oven, put for half an hour under the oppression, peel and grind. Pour the tomato over boiling water, remove the peel and finely crumble. Finely chop walnuts. Pass the garlic through the press. Grind greens. Add mayonnaise to the vegetables and mix.
3. Gather the cake, smearing each pancake with the filling. Grease the sides with mayonnaise. Sprinkle finely grated cheese over the top and sides of the cake. Leave for half an hour to soak.
Liver Cake Tips & Tricks
Beef liver is recommended to soak for two hours in milk to get rid of bitterness.
Mayonnaise can be replaced with fat sour cream.
You can sprinkle the top of the cake and sides with crumbs of rye crackers.
Flour can be replaced with bran or starch.
The filling will turn out tastier if you add fried mushrooms to it.
