Recipes with turkey liver

Contents:

• Fried liver
• Liver stew
• The liver as a filling for cutlets, patties
• Liver cake

There is a lot of food, which is used for cooking turkey liver. It boiled, stewed, fried, cooked out of it spreads, fillings for pies, salads, and even make cakes. The composition comprises liver fats, proteins and carbohydrates. It is rich in vitamins A, C, E, K, PP and group B, and minerals which include iron, zinc, potassium, manganese, calcium, selenium, and others.
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Fried liver

Buy fresh liver is better than frozen. It should be a brilliant red color, without any spots, smooth and supple, with a sweet pleasant odor. This by-product is prepared quickly and easily.

Turkey liver can not handle the heat for a long time, otherwise it will become hard and dry.

Once the frying liver evolution ceased red juice out of it, turn off the fire and cover the pan with a lid and insist 15 minutes Properly cooked liver has a delicate flavor. It's a little harder than chicken liver, but softer than beef.

The easiest way to prepare dishes from the liver - fry it with onions. This is a common, so-called classic recipe. For this we need to prepare the following products:

• 1 kg of turkey liver,
• 4 onions,
• 4 tbsp. l. flour
• sunflower oil for frying
• pepper, salt.

Liver turkey thoroughly cleaned of ducts and films, wash and allow to drain water. Pieces of the liver is dipped into flour and put on a hot frying pan with butter, fry both sides 5-6 minutes. Before the end of cooking salt. To the liver does not get hard, salt should be at the end of cooking . Cut onion half rings saute until golden brown and spread to the liver. Then cover the pan lid to the dish came to full readiness. The taste is a more gentle, if a by-product pre-soak in milk.

You can slightly complicate the method of preparation of the liver. For this to the aforementioned ingredients need to add 600 ml of cream or milk. Similarly, pieces byproduct lightly fried in butter, add salt at the end and shift into shape for baking. Top spread passaged onions. All of this pour the cream or milk and put in oven for 20 minutes until the sauce thickens. As a garnish for baked pastry cream served mashed potatoes, pasta or rice.

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Liver stew

Fried liver and onions in all recipes, mostly the same way. But the stew can be supplemented with a variety of products. Original flavor has fried liver, braised with apples. For this recipe will need:

• 1 kg of turkey liver,
• 1 clove of onion,
• 3 tbsp. l. flour
• 4 green sweet-sour apple,
• 250 g of apple juice,
• sunflower oil for frying liver and onions,
• salt pepper.

The first fry chopped onion. Apples are washed, cut into wedges and remove the seeds. When the onion becomes translucent, add to it slices of apples and continue to fry for 5 more minutes Then the onions with apples shift from the pan into a separate bowl and set aside aside. Liver pepper washed, placed in the same pan and fry on one side. Turn the pieces to the other side, salt, spread on top of fried onions with apples and pour it all apple juice. Stew under a lid on low heat until tender.

The following recipe uses rum, bananas and lemon. Required components:

• 600-700 g turkey liver,
• 2 poluspelyh banana
• 50 ml of rum,
• 1 lemon,
• 2 onions,
• 2 h. L. sugar

Dry basil, pepper, salt.

Pre-prepared flour and oil for frying. First byproduct washed, cut into desired pieces, sprinkle with basil, peppers and marinated in rum for half an hour. While the liver is pickled, cleaned and finely cut onions, remove using a trowel with half a lemon peel and squeeze the lemon juice (2 tablespoons).

Peel fried in oil, add chopped onion, saute it all 5-8 minutes. Add sugar and lemon juice. Marinate liver collapses slightly in flour and fried with onion and peel. Sliced ​​bananas and remaining marinade of rum is also sent to the frying pan. All gently stir, kept the fire to evaporate the Roma. Turn off the heat and cover with a lid to impregnate all the ingredients of the liver.

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The liver as a filling for cutlets, patties

Liver, and is also used as an auxiliary product to the main dishes, such as a filling for pies or mincemeat for cutlets.

Turkey is a dietary meat with a very delicate taste. To prepare the stuffed meatballs better to use a fresh turkey. At 6 servings need:

• 500 g of turkey meat,
• 300 g of liver,
• 1 carrot root,
• 1 parsley root,
• 1 onion,
• 40 g butter,
• 20 ml of wine,
• 20 g fat sour cream,
• 1 egg,
• 20 ml of milk
• 100 grams of bread crumbs,
• vegetable refined oil to frying,
• salt pepper.

Guided recipe for meatballs stuffing do so: the onion finely chopped, carrots and parsley rubbed on a grater and fry in oil. Washed liver cut into pieces and spread on a frying pan to vegetables. Gradually add wine and sour cream, salt and pepper. When wine boils away, the fire was quenched. The cooled hepatocellular vegetable mass is ground in a blender for density can add boiled egg yolk. For the filling of pies do the same.

Turkey, proceed as follows - turkey meat is cut into portions. The best part is considered to be in the turkey breast, and you should buy it. Thinly sliced ​​pieces of batter into the middle lay out stuffing, edges carefully wrapped. The shaped patties dipped in egg mixed with milk and then breading and then again dipped in egg, then in breadcrumbs. Cutlets spread on a pan and fry until cooked on both sides. This dish is well suited fried potatoes with vegetable salad.

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Liver cake

With such dishes as liver cake, will have to tinker a little longer. According to the most popular prescription required:

• 0, 7 kg of liver,
• 500 grams of milk,
• 2 pcs. eggs
• Article 4-5. l. flour
• 250 g of mayonnaise,
• 1 PC. onions
• 1 small clove garlic,
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• salt pepper,
• bunch of greens and boiled egg yolk for decoration.

Beat the eggs and mix with the flour and add the milk. Scroll liver and onions in a meat grinder and combine with eggs and milk. Season with salt and pepper and add a spoonful of vegetable oil. This mixture is well grind blender. The consistency should get plenty of dough for pancakes. On greased preheated skillet baked liver pancakes obzharivaya them on both sides. Cooled pancakes in turn spread the dish and coat with mayonnaise, mixed with grated garlic, and placed on top of each other. The top layer except the mayonnaise has sprinkled chopped greens and crumbled egg yolk. There are other recipes for this cake, which, for example, the layers are coated with a thin layer of mayonnaise with fried onion and carrot.

List of products with which you can extinguish or roast turkey offal, great. It can be fried mushrooms with chunks of pumpkin, low-fat cream cheese with grated tomato paste with a variety of vegetables, etc. Liver combines well with many ingredients, most importantly - do not overcook this useful, tender and tasty product.