Liver – very gentle dietary product. It contains a set of elements, valuable and useful to an organism, including iron, zinc, phosphorus, essential amino acids, protein and collagen. Recipes for a liver the most various. It can be eaten both in fried, and in a stewed look, in the form of paste, cake or fritters. But, in order that dishes from a liver, were really tasty, before its heat treatment it is necessary to process and prepare correctly.
It is required to you
- beef
- pork liver
- water
- milk
Instruction
1. Getting a liver, surely pay attention to its quality. The fresh product has to be smooth, beautiful brown color, without consolidations on cuts. The liver has to have the glossy intact film and clean bilious channels. If you doubt quality of the bought product, ask the seller to make several cuts and look at structure of a liver. It is better to make sure once again that you buy a good product, than to risk the health and health of relatives.
2. Before preparation the liver should be washed out very well for removal of bile. Then it is necessary to soak it. Answer to a question: soak a liver or not, you have to give yourself. If you are sure of quality of a product, its freshness if it is a liver of a young animal, then it is possible, process of soaking can and be omitted. Nevertheless it is recommended to soak a liver before preparation, and from it to anybody it won't be worse. It is possible to soak as an integral piece of an offal, and having cut it on pieces on 8-12 cm. If you wet a liver a whole piece, it considerably will facilitate its further cutting. Process of soaking is necessary for pork and beef liver as such liver can have bitter specific smack. Also it is recommended to soak a liver, quality or freshness of which you doubt.
3. It is possible to soak a liver in usual water, cream or milk. For some dishes the liver is soaked in wine. Time of soaking fluctuates of an hour to two, depending on quality of a product and age of an animal. It should be noted that the liver is soaked not only to remove bitterness and specific blood smack, but also to get rid of foreign smells and hazardous substances. Besides, after soaking, it becomes light, juicy, gentle and gathers necessary moisture.