Beef liver dishes

Beef liver dishes are tasty and healthy food, both for the family table and for the holidays. There are many options for preparing beef liver. It can be stewed or fried, made into cutlets, pate, chops, pancakes and even liver cake. If you follow the recommendations of specific recipes, all dishes will have a different taste, but will turn out light and tender.

Beef liver with carrots and onions in a frying pan

Beef liver with carrots and onions in a frying pan is the easiest and fastest way to cook liver. Vegetables give this offal a soft and delicate taste, which is also suitable for baby food. A short cooking time allows you to preserve all the beneficial liver vitamins.

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   How to cook a delicious beef liver dish at home. Carefully remove the film from the surface of the liver and the remains of blood vessels.Then cut it into medium-thick portions. Rinse them well under cold water, remove all moisture with a napkin and sprinkle the pieces with salt to your taste.
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   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Roll the liver pieces well on all sides in wheat flour, and then fry over medium heat until lightly browned on both sides.
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   While the liver is frying, peel the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into cubes and chop the carrots on a coarse grater.
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   In another frying pan, heat the butter and fry the chopped vegetables until tender.
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   Place pieces of liver on top of the fried vegetables, pour a little boiling water and simmer everything under a covered lid over low heat for 8-10 minutes. Serve beef liver cooked in a frying pan with onions and carrots for lunch with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Beef liver cake

In the line of beef liver dishes, liver cake occupies a special place. The dish is tasty, inexpensive and the cooking technology is simple, which allows you to prepare it not only for the holidays, but also for the everyday family table. In this recipe, we prepare the cake using the method of baking liver cakes/pancakes. We make a layer of fried carrots and onions and grease the cakes/pancakes with mayonnaise and garlic.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 1 kg.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 4 cloves.
• Onion – 300 gr.
• Carrots – 300 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 50 ml.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 200 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Greenery - for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1.Peel the vegetables for the liver cake layer, cut the onion into cubes, and chop the carrots on a coarse grater.

Step 2. Remove the film from the beef liver, rinse and cut into medium pieces. Grind using a blender or meat grinder into a homogeneous puree.

Step 3. In a frying pan and in heated vegetable oil, fry the onions and carrots until tender.

Step 4. Break the chicken eggs into the liver puree. Add salt and black pepper, add three tablespoons of wheat flour and mix the dough with a whisk. The texture of the dough should be of medium thickness so that it flows from the whisk in a wide ribbon, so the amount of flour can be increased.

Step 5. Bake several thin pancakes from the liver dough, frying them until lightly browned on both sides. The pancakes hold their shape well and turn over easily.

Step 6: Next, prepare the sauce to top the liver pancakes. In a separate bowl, mix mayonnaise with finely chopped garlic and some of the herbs. You can add any seasonings to the sauce.

Step 7: To assemble the cake, use a large serving platter or flat plate. Place liver pancakes on it one by one, covering it with a thin layer of mayonnaise sauce and a vegetable layer.

Step 8. Grease the last top pancake with sauce and decorate with herbs. The beef liver cake is ready, but it needs 2 hours to soak, or better yet, place it in the refrigerator overnight. Bon appetit!

Homemade beef liver pate

Homemade beef liver pate is prepared from this offal, usually with the addition of vegetables and butter. In this recipe we prepare pate with the addition of lard (fresh or salted), onions and carrots, which will improve the taste of the finished dish. We simmer the ingredients and then grind them in a meat grinder. The recipe is simple and quick.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 300 gr.
• Lard – 150 gr.
• Garlic – 4 cloves.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onion – 3 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Ground allspice - to taste.
• Bay leaf - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cut the salted or fresh lard chosen for the pate into small pieces and fry in a deep frying pan or cauldron for 10 minutes.

Step 2. Clean the beef liver from film and remaining vessels, cut into small pieces and rinse under running water.

Step 3. Then transfer the liver to the fried lard and simmer over low heat and covered with a lid for half an hour. Stir the liver periodically.

Step 4. Peel and wash the carrots and onions and cut them into medium pieces of any shape.

Step 5. After half an hour, transfer the chopped vegetables to the liver, add salt with the seasonings indicated in the recipe, stir and simmer for another 20-30 minutes. Then cool the stewed ingredients a little and remove the bay leaf.

Step 6. Twist the cooled liver with lard and vegetables through a meat grinder, through the middle rack, and you can do this several times. The mixer does not whip the pate, and its texture will be slightly different.

Step 7. Transfer the pate into any form and place it in the refrigerator to harden.

Step 8. The cooked and cooled beef liver pate can be decorated and served or used for other dishes. Bon appetit!

Beef liver pancakes

Liver pancakes made from beef liver will be your option for serving this healthy offal, especially for children who do not eat liver in any form. Preparing pancakes is simple: the liver is minced in a meat grinder along with onions, the dough is mixed with additional ingredients and the pancakes are baked. In this recipe, add boiled potatoes to the liver for a tender taste.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 400 gr.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Starch – 1 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 60 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare, according to the recipe, all the ingredients for the pancakes.

Step 2. Using a sharp knife, remove the film, remnants of blood vessels and bile ducts from the liver. Then cut it into medium pieces and rinse in a colander under running water. Peel the onion and cut into quarters.

Step 3. Grind these ingredients into a homogeneous mass in a meat grinder with a medium grid.

Step 4. Break two chicken eggs into the liver mixture, add salt, black pepper and potato starch. Mix the dough with a whisk.

Step 5. Peel the pre-boiled and cooled potatoes in their skins and chop them on a coarse grater.

Step 6. Mix grated potatoes with mayonnaise. This potato additive will give liver pancakes special tenderness and neutralize the taste of liver.

Step 7. Mix the liver dough with the potatoes and leave to rest for 20 minutes.

Step 8. After this time, you can fry the pancakes in heated vegetable oil until golden brown on both sides.

Step 9Serve the prepared beef liver pancakes hot, topped with any side dish, but they are also tasty cold. Bon appetit!

Beef liver salad with pickles

In a salad with any set of ingredients, beef liver and pickled cucumbers combine very well, creating one special taste. The dish turns out to be very satisfying and healthy, because liver should be present in our diet. For salad, it is important to properly prepare the liver. In this recipe we fry it, add sautéed vegetables and season with mayonnaise.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 300 gr.
• Pickled cucumber – 5 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the beef liver from the film, cut into medium pieces no more than 1.5 cm thick, rinse with cold water and remove excess moisture with a napkin. Then sprinkle each piece with salt and black pepper to your taste.

Step 2. Fry the liver in heated vegetable oil until lightly browned on both sides. It is important not to overcook the liver so that it remains soft. Cool the fried liver a little.

Step 3. Peel the carrots, rinse and chop on a Korean grater or cut into thin strips.

Step 4. Cut the peeled onion into half rings up to 5 mm thick.

Step 5. Fry the chopped vegetables in hot oil just until soft and over low heat.

Step 6. Also cut the pickled cucumbers into thin strips.

Step 7. Cut the fried and cooled beef liver into the same pieces

Step 8Place all the chopped ingredients into a common salad bowl, add a little mayonnaise and mix gently. Take a sample and add salt and pepper to your taste.

Step 9. Place the prepared beef liver salad with pickles into portioned salad bowls and serve. Bon appetit!

Beef liver cutlets

Liver cutlets can be a tasty option for beef liver dishes. The ingredients are similar to pancakes. But the base is kneaded thicker, and the cutlets are baked in a small shape and thicker than pancakes. In this recipe, we will add potatoes to the minced liver for fluffiness, carrots for a rosy color, and onions for juiciness. Mix the minced meat using kitchen gadgets.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 300 gr.
• Potatoes – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Flour – 4 tbsp. with a slide.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare the liver for cutlets. Peel it from the film, cut it into pieces, rinse under running water and remove excess moisture.

Step 2. Peel, rinse and cut the vegetables indicated in the recipe into pieces.

Step 3. Place the chopped liver and vegetables into the bowl of a food processor.

Step 4. Grind them into a homogeneous mass. You can grind these ingredients in a meat grinder with a fine grid.

Step 5. Then pour wheat flour into the resulting mass, add chopped garlic cloves, salt and black pepper to your taste and mix the minced meat well with a spoon.

Step 6.Spoon the minced liver onto a frying pan heated with plenty of vegetable oil, forming it into cutlets. Fry the cutlets for 7-10 minutes until golden brown on both sides over medium heat.

Step 7. Serve the prepared beef liver cutlets hot for lunch, complemented with any side dish or vegetables. Bon appetit!

Stewed beef liver with onions in sour cream

Stewed beef liver with onions in sour cream is called Stroganoff liver and is a self-sufficient tasty and satisfying dish. The cooking technology is simple: the liver is cut into pieces, as for beef stroganoff. Breaded in flour, fried, and stewed with onions in sour cream. A prerequisite is to soak the liver in milk.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 600 gr.
• Milk – 300 ml.
• Onion – 200 gr.
• Sour cream – 250 gr.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 50 ml.

Cooking process:

Step 1. The liver is cleared of film and ducts, cut into 2-3 pieces and filled with milk for 1 hour.

Step 2. The onion is cut into thin half rings and fried until golden brown in heated vegetable oil.

Step 3. The liver soaked in milk is dried with a napkin and cut into longitudinal pieces up to 1.5 cm thick. Flour is poured into a plastic bag and the liver slices are placed. All pieces are well coated in flour.

Step 4. Then the liver is fried in a deep frying pan in hot oil for 8 minutes and stirring to ensure even frying of the pieces.

Step 5.Then fried onions are added to the fried liver, sour cream is added, everything is mixed and simmered over low heat under a covered lid for 15 minutes. If your sour cream is thick, add a little water to the pan.

Step 6. After this time, sprinkle the dish with salt and black pepper and cook without a lid for 5 minutes so that some of the liquid evaporates. Stewed beef liver with onions in sour cream is placed on portioned plates, decorated with herbs and served for lunch or dinner. Bon appetit!

Beef liver goulash

Beef liver goulash is prepared simply and from inexpensive ingredients, which allows the housewife to prepare a light dinner or lunch for the whole family without much time. The main flavor of the dish is the sauce, and in this recipe we prepare it on the basis of tomato paste with mayonnaise. To remove the taste of liver, soak it briefly in milk. The constant vegetable “companions” of the liver will be carrots and onions.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 700 gr.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.
• Milk – 200 ml.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Ground black pepper – ½ tsp.
• Dill - to taste.

For the sauce:

• Tomato paste – 3 tbsp.
• Water – 2 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately measure out the ingredients for cooking in the quantities specified in the recipe so that everything is at hand. Peel the beef liver from film and remaining ducts, cut into pieces as for regular goulash, rinse with cold water and cover with milk for 20 minutes. During this time, peel the vegetables and cut into pieces of arbitrary shape.

Step 2. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan.Fry the liver pieces on it while stirring for no more than 3 minutes, so that the liver remains soft.

Step 3. In another frying pan, fry the chopped vegetables until soft. Then transfer them to the liver.

Step 4. In a bowl, mix tomato paste with mayonnaise (can be replaced with sour cream) and a glass of water. Dissolve salt in it and add black pepper. Pour the mixture over the liver and vegetables, mix well and simmer over low heat under a covered lid for 15-20 minutes.

Step 5. Then pour wheat flour into the goulash, add another glass of water, stir so that there are no lumps of flour, simmer for another 5 minutes and turn off the heat.

Step 6. Sprinkle the prepared beef liver goulash with finely chopped dill, arrange into portioned plates, add a side dish, pour over the sauce from the frying pan and serve the dish. Bon appetit!

Beef liver roll

Liver roll made from beef liver, as a healthy and unique product, will be a delicious snack for any table. Beef liver has a dense texture, so a roll made from it holds its shape well even when cut. Especially with filling, it looks beautiful. In this recipe we prepare a boiled liver roll. For the filling we take fried carrots with onions and melted cheese. Thanks to these ingredients, the roll will turn out tender and juicy.

Cooking time: 6 hours.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 1 kg.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Processed cheese – 200 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Clean the beef liver from film and remaining ducts, cut into medium pieces and boil for 15 minutes in water with added salt.Remove the foam from the surface of the broth.

Step 2. Peel and rinse the vegetables. Cut the onion into half rings. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater. Then fry the vegetables until soft in heated vegetable oil, and put a third of this mass in a separate bowl.

Step 3. Cool the boiled liver a little and grind twice, together with 1/3 of the fried vegetables and garlic cloves, through a meat grinder with a fine grid. Then sprinkle this minced meat with salt and black pepper to your taste.

Step 4. Soften the butter in the microwave, add to the minced liver, and mix everything well.

Step 5. For the filling, grind high-quality processed cheese (you can freeze it a little in advance) on a coarse grater.

Step 6: Place cling film on the countertop. Place the liver base of the roll on it in an even thin layer and compact the mass with a spoon.

Step 7. Cover one third of the liver base with fried vegetables, and lay grated processed cheese on the rest in an even layer.

Step 8. Carefully and using film, form a tight roll, wrap it with film a couple more times. Place the roll in the refrigerator to harden for 5 hours, or better yet overnight. After this time, cut the prepared beef liver roll beautifully and serve. Bon appetit!

Beef liver chops

Beef liver can simply be fried in a frying pan, rolled in flour, but a more delicious option would be beef liver chops. It is important to choose high-quality liver; do not use frozen liver for chops. The preparation of the dish is simple: the liver soaked in milk is chopped, beaten with a hammer and fried in batter. In this recipe we will complement the dish with fried onions.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Beef liver – 700 gr.
• Milk – 200 ml.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Flour – 100 gr.
• Onion – 3 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Butter – for frying.
• Sour cream - for serving.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all ingredients for chops immediately, according to the recipe. Rinse the liver well with cold water and dry with a napkin. Then transfer the liver to a separate bowl and pour milk over it for 1 hour. Peel the onion immediately.

Step 2. Then remove the liver soaked in milk from the film and cut into portions at least 1 cm thick. Sprinkle them with salt and black pepper, roll in flour and carefully and lightly through the film, beat with a hammer. Dredge each broken piece again in flour.

Step 3. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with salt and pepper, which will be the batter for the chops. Cut the onion into thin rings.

Step 4. Dip each beef chop in batter and fry in heated vegetable oil for 3-4 minutes on both sides until golden brown. Thus, fry all the chops and transfer them to a plate.

Step 5. In the same frying pan, melt the butter and fry the chopped onion in it until golden brown. Then place the chops on top of the onions, and simmer the dish over low heat and covered for another 7-10 minutes. Place the prepared beef liver chops on portion plates, top with fried onions, decorate with herbs and serve with sour cream. Bon appetit!