Continuing the theme of salads, I would like to dwell on such a product as beef liver, because the snacks from it are simply amazing! And not only snacks, they make her, and much more. On my table, especially festive, this meat offal is present quite often.
Well, of course, the liver should be fresh, maroon in color without an unpleasant odor. Buy meat and offal from trusted places. After all, a good product is the key to a delicious meal!
Delicious salad of boiled beef liver with beans
The combination of products is just the bomb! It's a treasure trove of vitamins and minerals. The liver is rich in iron, beans are rich in protein, plus onions and garlic, such a salad must appear in the daily menu of every family.
If you are using regular beans, boil them ahead of time before you start cooking. Or you can take canned beans in their own juice, so you save a lot of time.
We will need:
- beef liver - 300 g;
- boiled or canned beans in their own juice - 200 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil for sauteing onions.
Cooking:
1. Boil the liver in advance until cooked. Cool and cut into strips.
It is best to soak it for half an hour in cold water so that there is no bitterness in it.
2. We clean the onion, cut it into thin half rings and sauté lightly in a pan until soft.
3. Mix the liver with the finished beans and onions, adding grated garlic, salt and pepper to taste and seasoning everything with mayonnaise.
A delicious salad with hints of garlic and tender liver will undoubtedly perfectly complement the main dishes on your table!
Beef liver salad with carrots and onions with pickled cucumber layers
A very hearty salad for the holiday table. Here and the liver, and eggs, and fried vegetables. Salted cucumbers add piquancy to the taste. After such a dish, your guests will definitely not leave you hungry. Preparing it is quite simple. The most important thing is to cook beef liver correctly, then such a dish will come out with a bang.
We will need:
- beef liver - 300 g;
- onions - 60 g;
- carrots - 50 g;
- pickles - 100 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- vegetable oil;
- cheese for garnish (optional)
- mayonnaise;
- salt pepper.
Cooking:
1. We clean the beef liver from films and veins and soak for an hour in cold water. Then boil until cooked, cool and rub on a coarse grater.
Cook for 35-40 minutes with a whole piece. Salt five minutes before readiness.
2. Peel onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion, and also grate the carrots on a grater with large holes. Fry the vegetables in a frying pan in oil, adding salt and black pepper to taste. Then let cool.
3. Boil hard boiled eggs. After cooling, peel and separate the whites from the yolks. We rub both of them separately on a coarse grater.
4. We also rub pickled cucumbers, squeezing excess brine from them.
5. Now let's start assembling the salad. Since it is puff, you can use a culinary ring, or just put it in a salad bowl, as I did. First lay out the liver and grease it with mayonnaise.
Then there are pickles, and after them the yolks, smeared with mayonnaise.
Set aside one tablespoon of grated yolks for garnish, or use cheese for this.
Then we spread the fried vegetables and proteins, we also grease them with mayonnaise.
Sprinkle either grated yolks or cheese on top in the center. You can decorate with pomegranate and dill sprigs if desired, so that the salad becomes a little brighter and more beautiful.
How to cook beef liver salad with pickled onions?
The beauty of this very simple liver salad lies, of course, in the well-marinated onions. In fact, this combination of just two ingredients is great on its own, but some people add green peas as well. You can try both and choose the best option for yourself.
We will need:
- beef liver - 600 g;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- mayonnaise;
- salt;
For marinade:
- vinegar - 0.5 cups;
- sugar - 0.5 cups;
- cold water - 1 glass.
Cooking:
1. Peel the onion and cut into thin half rings. We put them in a bowl and knead them lightly with our hands so that the half rings separate and let the juice flow.
2. Pour the onion with vinegar and water and cover with sugar. We mix everything very carefully and put it in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
3. Boil the liver in a saucepan until tender. Then cool and cut into strips.
4. We take out the well-marinated onion from the refrigerator and drain the marinade from it and add it to the liver, season with mayonnaise and mix. An excellent appetizer, for which you can prepare products in advance, and make a salad just before serving.
Classic liver salad with carrots and onions
Well, a very simple salad with beef liver. You can’t imagine it easier, which is why it can be cooked not only on holidays, but just like that. The ingredients are all pretty basic too. And if you now have this wonderful by-product at home, then the rest of the products, I'm sure, are also available. So get out and start cooking!
We will need:
- beef liver - 0.5 kg;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise;
- salt - 0.5 tsp;
- ground black pepper - 0.3 tsp;
- greens for decoration;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
1. As always, first you need to soak the liver in cold water for 20-30 minutes, clean it from films and rinse thoroughly under running water.
For me, it always cleans well after soaking, but it is also advised to remove the film from a slightly frozen product, so it comes off easier.
2. Cut the liver into longitudinal pieces and fry them on both sides in vegetable oil. Fry an average of 5-7 minutes on each side.
Poke it with a toothpick, if a clear (not red) liquid flows out, then this indicates its readiness.
3. We cut the cooled meat into strips, three peeled carrots on a grater for Korean carrots, and chop the onion with a knife.
4. We put the prepared products in a salad bowl, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise. It is advisable to leave the salad to infuse in the refrigerator, and before serving it can be decorated with a sprig of dill.
Here is such a seemingly simple dish, but so tasty and tender that you just “lick your fingers”!
Layered beef liver salad with pickles and eggs
The salad is festive, puffy and quite rich in its constituent products. Dense, mayonnaise-soaked layers together form an incredibly tasty and satisfying dish. I am sure that this appetizer will especially appeal to men. Cucumbers and red onions make the dish spicy and fragrant!
I did not write about salt and pepper on each layer, use them at your discretion and taste.
We will need:
- beef liver - 400 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- pickles - 100 g;
- potatoes - 4 pcs.;
- cheese - 150 g;
- Red onion;
- mayonnaise, salt, pepper.
Cooking:
1. First, prepare everything you need for the salad. Boil the liver, potatoes and eggs until tender. Cool down.
2. We rub the previously boiled liver and eggs on a coarse grater. And cut the potatoes and pickles into small cubes. Three cheese on a fine grater. We put everything separately, without mixing with each other.
3. Lay out the layers: first, the liver, which must be greased with mayonnaise. Sprinkle with chopped red onion.
4. Spread pickles on top, on top of which are potatoes, smeared with a layer of mayonnaise.
5. Sprinkle with eggs, we also spread the sauce over them with a spoon. The final layer is cheese. If desired, decorate with herbs and bright vegetables, for example, bell peppers. It is advisable to let the salad brew in the refrigerator, so all layers are well saturated with mayonnaise, they will be juicy and tasty.
"Glutton" with liver and croutons
Probably one of the most popular beef liver salads is "Obzhorka". How many I go to visit, he is always present on the table. Some do not add crackers here, someone, on the contrary, cannot do without them. This appetizer is pretty easy to make. A good, budget-friendly recipe for the holiday table!
We will need:
- beef liver - 600 g;
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- crackers - a couple of packs;
- flour - 2 tablespoons;
- salt, pepper, vegetable oil;
- mayonnaise.
Cooking:
1. We clean the liver from the film and cut it into thin strips. We cut the onion into cubes, and three carrots on a grater.
2. Put a couple of tablespoons of flour in the liver, mix and send to hot oil in a pan. Fry until tender, season with salt and pepper. Cooking for 7 minutes.
Drain the cooked meat in a colander to drain the oil.
3. Fry onions and carrots, you can even use liver oil. Add pepper and salt and lightly simmer the vegetables on the stove.
When the carrots become soft, the vegetables can be removed from the heat.
4. Mix the cooled liver and vegetables with grated garlic and croutons, dressing the salad with mayonnaise. Fast, tasty, inexpensive!
Simple salad with beef liver and Korean carrots
The bright taste of the salad will not leave anyone indifferent! Soft, tender liver is balanced by the rich aroma and taste of Korean carrots. A wonderful combination of products will make you cook this dish again and again for every holiday and not only!
We will need:
- beef liver - 500 g;
- Korean carrots - 300 g;
- onions - 300 g;
- canned peas - 3 tablespoons;
- mayonnaise - 2-3 tablespoons;
- salt, pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
1. Cut the liver cleaned from films into small pieces, onions into small cubes. Fry the onion in vegetable oil, then add the liver to it and cook for 7 minutes. At the end, salt and pepper.
2. We combine the cooled liver with Korean carrots, peas and mayonnaise. Thoroughly mix the products together. This is how we make this salad!
Delicious liver salad recipe without mayonnaise
A delicious salad, it is so fresh and bright, but at the same time hearty due to the liver and completely without a drop of mayonnaise. This is a good choice for people who follow a healthy diet. This dish can be supplemented with other vegetables of your choice. The lime juice dressing is fantastic! It is she who makes the taste bright, complementing it with notes of citrus. In general, try!
We will need:
- beef liver - 300-400 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- lime - 1 pc.;
- bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- celery;
- mushrooms;
- salt, sugar - a pinch;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
1. Peel the onion, cut into half rings. Pour some salt, sugar into it and pour boiling water over it. Leave it like this for 5 minutes, then drain the water and squeeze the onion.
2. Fry the liver, peeled and chopped into strips, in a pan in vegetable oil over high heat for about five minutes. At the end, salt and pepper.
3. Next, fry the mushrooms in another pan, also salt and pepper them.
4. Peel the celery and cut it into strips. Cut the bell pepper in the same way, removing the stalk and seeds from it.
5. We make dressing from lime and garlic. To do this, roll the lime on the table, pressing it down with your palm. This will give you more juice. We chop the garlic with a knife or rub it on a grater, pour it with oil and lime juice, salt and pepper. We mix everything well.
For piquancy in the sauce, you can grate a little ginger root.
6. We mix all our ingredients, seasoning everything with the resulting sauce, mix and let it brew a little. Arrange on plates and enjoy a delicious beef liver salad!
Cooking salad with liver and pomegranate
Foods that don't go together at first glance are combined in this salad. The liver in pomegranate sauce becomes incredibly juicy and soaked. Pomegranate seeds add a certain sophistication and sophistication to the dish. The sour and sweet tastes harmoniously balance each other and make this appetizer unforgettable!
We will need:
- beef liver - 300 g;
- apple - 1 pc.;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- pomegranate seeds - 20 g;
- soft cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 60 g;
- pomegranate sauce - 2 tablespoons;
- olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
- vinegar 9% - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar, salt.
Cooking:
1. Pour finely chopped onions with three tablespoons of boiling water, two tablespoons of vinegar. Add one teaspoon of salt and sugar to this.
2. Grate the boiled liver.
Cook for 40 minutes in boiling water, after soaking it in cold water for half an hour.
3. For dressing, mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of pomegranate sauce. Pour the grated meat with the resulting mixture and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Put the liver on a flat dish, slightly crushing it with the back of a spoon.
Sprinkle with onion, from which all the liquid was previously squeezed out and grease with mayonnaise.
5. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, and then grated apple.
It is best to use pink pomegranate here, it has soft seeds that will not be felt in the salad.
6. We make a mesh of mayonnaise and then sprinkle with grated boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
7. Spread mayonnaise on top and sides and distribute it evenly with a spatula.
8. Well, at the end, sprinkle with grated cheese. For decoration, you can make a mayonnaise mesh, sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, lay out beautiful greens and thin slices of lemon. Not a salad, but a feast for the eyes!
Video on how to make a salad with beef liver and mushrooms
Another interesting recipe for a liver salad with mushrooms. An excellent choice for hearty and delicious meals. Instead of champignons, you can use any other mushrooms that you have in the refrigerator.
Do not be afraid to cook the liver, you just need to learn how to do it right. Such a variety of salads from this offal exists that it’s just that your eyes run wide, you want to try everything. Fortunately, we have many holidays! I hope that you also now have a list with the desired dishes for the next celebration. It's great to try something new every time!
See you soon! And Bon Appetit!
What is a holiday and a feast without salads? Only now, the usual Olivier and herring under a fur coat have long been pretty fed up. I want something unusual and tasty. It is in such situations that knowledge of cooking liver salads will help you. They turn out very tender and satisfying.
We offer you several recipes for delicious liver salads - to choose from.
How to cook liver salad?
Sometimes you want to diversify dinner with some delicious salad that does not require much preparation. A simple liver salad is very suitable for this. It is very light for an evening meal, but at the same time satisfying.
Ingredients:
- beef liver - 500 g;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- pickles - 250 g;
- mayonnaise;
- vegetable oil;
- greens;
- salt.
Cooking
Defrost the liver slightly and cut into thin strips. Pour a little vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and place the slices in the frying pan. Fry the liver over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it changes color. Once the liver is ready, turn off the heat, add some water and cover with a lid. Cut the onion into half rings, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Lightly fry vegetables in vegetable oil. Cut pickled cucumbers into strips. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and season with mayonnaise. Mix well and arrange in a heap on a flat dish. Make a mayonnaise net and decorate with herbs.
Salad "Bogatyr" with liver
Ingredients:
- beef liver - 250 g;
- grilled chicken breast - 500 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- olive oil;
- lemon juice;
- salt;
- sugar.
Cooking
Boil the liver in slightly salted water and cut into strips. Cut the onion into half rings and fry a little in vegetable oil. Add the onion to the thinly sliced carrots. Salt and pepper. Drizzle with lemon juice and add sugar to taste. Squeeze the garlic through a press, add to the carrots and mix everything well. Remove the skin from the chicken breast and cut the meat into strips. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, season with salt to taste and drizzle with olive oil.
Salad "Obzhorka" with liver - recipe
Ingredients:
- chicken liver - 400 g;
- potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise;
- salt.
Cooking
Boil carrots, potatoes and eggs. Rinse the liver well and boil in slightly salted water. So that the liver does not become hard, leave it for a while in a pot of water where it was boiled. Then spread the salad in layers. The first layer - potatoes on a coarse grater and grease with mayonnaise. Then the eggs are also on a coarse grater and mayonnaise. Lay out the third layer of the liver, finely chopped and greased with mayonnaise. Next comes cheese on a fine grater and mayonnaise. Put the grated carrots in the last layers, and on top of it, fried until golden brown. Let the salad soak for 2-3 hours and you can serve.
Salad "Hunter" with liver
Ingredients:
Cooking
Rinse the liver and clean from the film. Cut into cubes and fry until tender in butter. Cut the mushrooms and celery into pieces, and chop the onion into strips. In the same oil where the liver was fried, fry the vegetables with mushrooms until cooked. Add chopped herbs, pepper and salt. Put the mushroom and liver in one container, pour over with balsamic vinegar. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a flat dish and carefully place the lettuce on top. If desired, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Although the offal of some housewives is not in honor, probably the most popular of them can be called the liver. It is from it that you can cook the most delicious dishes. Plus, they're incredibly useful. The liver is rich in a variety of vitamins, in particular A, B2 and C. Let's not forget about amino acids and antioxidants. This product is worth it to cook soups, main dishes and snacks from it. But today we will learn how to make liver salad. This is a very tasty dish that is enjoyed by the vast majority of people. Even those of them who are not too fond of the "insides" will be smitten with their exquisite taste.
What is the best product to use?
Liver salads are an indispensable part of the cuisine of almost all peoples of the world. Use beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey liver. Calf liver is considered a delicacy. And in some expensive restaurants, you can even try a quail or partridge liver salad. Goose liver, especially foie gras, is an addition to many French appetizers.
Liver is usually combined with vegetables - fresh and pickled, as well as eggs, potatoes, mushrooms, nuts, tomatoes and paprika. This is such a versatile product that it leaves great room for personal experimentation. So learn the basic rules and be able to cook original and unique dishes. Products for liver salad are usually diced. And you can fill it with different sauces - mayonnaise, vegetable or olive oil. You can also prepare your own dressing for him.
Liver salad: ingredients
The simplest type of this snack does not require any "overseas" products. When preparing it, you can use what almost every housewife has at home. For a pound of liver, we need two onions, a jar of green peas, one carrot and a few pickles. This combination of products perfectly emphasizes the taste of the liver.
Season this salad with salt and black pepper (usually a pinch each). Sometimes nutmeg is also added. Spices are best taken freshly ground. It is advisable to use mayonnaise as a salad dressing. You can buy store-bought, but it's better to make your own. Then you will know that all your ingredients are of high quality, there are no emulsifiers and harmful additives in them. Before cooking, the film must be removed from the liver, for which it should first be scalded. Some chefs advise soaking it first in milk to remove the bitterness. Carrots should be washed and peeled.
salad preparation
The liver for this snack must be cooked. We know that a lot of people don't like it this way. But believe me, in a liver salad, it will seem unusually tasty to you. You won't spend a lot of time on this salad. After all, the liver is cooked faster than meat, especially poultry. When it cools down, it should be thinly (straw) chopped. Onions for this salad are cut into half rings, and it is better to rub the carrots. Then the vegetables must be fried in vegetable oil until they acquire a golden color. Chop pickles very finely. Now mix all the ingredients together. Salt and pepper to taste, at the end we season with mayonnaise.
If the salad is too dry, add the vegetable oil in which the onions and carrots were fried. It is usually garnished with parsley. This classic liver salad recipe can be spruced up with boiled eggs and walnuts. Then it will become more satisfying and festive.
The combination of liver and mushrooms
Such an appetizer is usually eaten very quickly after you put it on the table. How to cook liver salad with mushrooms? To do this, take a veal liver. Its delicate taste goes well with champignons. For three hundred grams of veal liver, you will need to take several pickled cucumbers, three eggs and 200-300 grams of mushrooms. A film is removed from a well-washed liver, boiled for about 20 minutes (water can be salted quite a bit), cooled and cut into slices. Mushrooms are cleaned and fried in oil. It is not worth cutting them too finely, because during heat treatment they greatly decrease in size. Eggs are hard-boiled, peeled and chopped into cubes. Cucumbers are cut into small pieces. All prepared products are mixed in a salad bowl, seasoned with black pepper and mayonnaise. Top with parsley and chopped olives.
Layered Liver Salad
The recipe for this appetizer is one of the most popular. It is easy to prepare, but it rightfully occupies a prominent place on the festive table. This salad is usually made from chicken liver, which we need a pound. We boil it until cooked and, as in previous recipes, cut into strips. Finely chop five pickled cucumbers. Separately, cook 4 carrots, then peel and rub them coarsely. Finely chopped onion (4 pieces) pass. Boil the eggs, cool, separate the whites from the yolks.
Now we spread the liver. First, there is an offal (half of the amount that we boiled and cut). Lubricate with mayonnaise, then spread half of the fried onions, pickled cucumbers, carrots and egg whites. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise. We repeat the bookmark sequence. And sprinkle everything with grated yolks on top. Such a salad is decorated in different ways - with greens, culinary “roses” cut from fresh cucumbers, and olives. Before serving, it should stand for several hours in the refrigerator so that all layers are evenly soaked.
Appetizer with cheese and garlic
This is a very high-calorie salad, which is well suited for recuperation after an illness. It is slightly spicy and spicy, which is why men often like it. Such a liver salad with egg, cheese and garlic is made from beef offal. All ingredients for it should be ground on a grater or in a blender.
There are several ways to prepare this salad. In the first, you need to chop the boiled liver and carrots. Then finely rub the cheese and eggs. All this is mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise, where several cloves of garlic are squeezed out. In the festive version, the appetizer is stacked in layers. Half of the liver with mayonnaise and garlic goes down to a dish with high walls, the bottom of which is covered with lettuce leaves. Then we put carrots, eggs, cheese. The second half of the liver is the topmost layer. And each time we do not forget to coat the layers of lettuce with mayonnaise. It can be eaten as an independent dish.
mushrooms and cheese
This is an interesting version of a festive snack, which can be replaced with a bored Olivier. Liver salad with cheese and mushrooms is made from pork offal. The latter, of course, must be boiled in a whole piece, after soaking in milk. We need 200 grams of liver, raw champignons, hard cheese. Take also one or two fresh cucumbers. While the liver is being cooked, clean the mushrooms, chop them not too finely, and then fry them in vegetable oil. After that, we cut the cucumbers into strips, mix with mushrooms, chop the cooled liver, add to the salad. At the end, grind the cheese on a coarse grater. Sometimes boiled eggs are put in this appetizer.
The best dressing for such a salad is mayonnaise, in which a little salt and mustard are added. It can be divided into portions and decorated with greenery.
with peas
This appetizer is made quite simply and does not require much time from the cook. But the method of its preparation is different from all the previous ones. How to make liver salad with peas? We take 250 or 300 grams of chicken offal, rinse under running water. Cut the raw liver into pieces. Fry for about seven minutes in a pan, in vegetable oil. Salt a little before turning off the gas. Place the liver on a warmed plate. Three onions cut into half rings. Then fry in a separate pan until golden brown. Coarsely rub three raw carrots and send to the onion. Mix all ingredients in a salad bowl. Add a jar of canned green peas, salt, pepper. Dressing this salad is best with sour cream.
For gourmets
For such a salad, in addition to half a kilogram of beef liver, you will need 300 grams of broccoli and the same number of small salad tomatoes, cherry tomatoes are best. We prepare the liver, but do not boil it, but fry it in small cubes, making sure that it remains soft. Broccoli must be blanched. That is, dip the inflorescences of this cabbage in boiling water for a couple of minutes, and then rinse them with cold water. Then we fry it in olive oil. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half, add to the cabbage and keep it all on fire for about three minutes. Mix a few tablespoons of mustard with the same amount of balsamic vinegar. Now we have dressing ready.
It remains to spread the salad in portions. First, we place the liver on plates. Put fried vegetables on top, pour dressing. And the last detail - sprinkle with crushed cedar nuts or cashews.
"Lust"
The classic liver salad recipe can be varied. Fry one onion in vegetable oil until soft. Add in coarsely chopped carrots. We continue to fry the vegetables together for another five minutes. My chicken liver, cut into pieces. We send it to vegetables. Fry over low heat until the blood stops coming out. At the end, add spices. Cool, open a jar of corn, drain the liquid, mix with liver and vegetables. 4 hard-boiled eggs. Each of them is cut into 8 parts. Add to salad. We fill it with mayonnaise, salt to taste, decorate with herbs, corn, olives or black olives.
This truly masculine liver salad with corn is a godsend for a romantic dinner.
With turkey liver
If the guests came unexpectedly, and you have a frozen bird's liver, then this is a salvation for you. A hearty appetizer that anyone who loves meat will love. Liver salad with pickled onions requires a minimum of products. A kilogram of offal, 5-6 medium onions and mayonnaise - that's all. The turkey liver is ideal for him. Beef and pork can be too tough, and chicken is very small. We cook it until ready. At this time, cut the onion into half rings and prepare the marinade. Mix half a glass of vinegar with 250 grams of water, add 4 teaspoons of sugar. Pour all this onion for half an hour. Cool the cooked liver, cut into strips. Add onion and mayonnaise. This sauce is best prepared by yourself, but, in extreme cases, you can take purchased. Now mix the liver, onion, mayonnaise, salt and pepper, the salad is ready
Salad with foie gras
Goose or duck liver of this type are great for all sorts of holiday snacks. Here is a recipe for one of them. Take arugula leaves - about a hundred grams. Rinse with cold water. Prepare dressing - three tablespoons of olive oil to one balsamic vinegar. Fill them with arugula leaves. Remove the canned liver (foie gras) from the jar and cut into slices. Place arugula leaves seasoned with dressing on a flat salad plate. Top, in a circle - chopped liver, whole cherry tomatoes and thinly sliced mushrooms. This salad can also be served at banquets.
So, we have seen that even such an offal as the liver can serve as the basis for both nutritious and healthy "every day" dishes, and gourmet restaurant dishes. There are a lot of salad options. The liver is combined with herbs, and with vegetables, and with marinades. You can fill such salads with mayonnaise, vinegar and olive oil dressing, sour cream and other sauces. You can also make pancakes from it, which, cut into pieces, are used as ingredients for salads. You can try to play on contrasts, and thus discover new taste qualities of the liver. Dare and experiment, and you will see that it is quite easy to create culinary miracles.
Liver salad - general principles of preparation
Despite the fact that the liver belongs to the category of offal, it is not inferior to meat in taste and amount of vitamins. This is the most valuable product, which contains the most important trace elements (copper, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium) and other nutrients. Liver dishes are found in many countries of the world, only the method of preparation and the sets of spices used differ. One such dish is Liver Salad. The preparation of this healthy snack does not take much time, as the liver is cooked much faster than meat (especially poultry liver).
For liver salad, a variety of types of liver are taken: chicken, pork, beef, lamb or cod liver. Calf liver is considered the most delicious and tender. In some restaurants (for example, French cuisine) you can taste Liver salad made from burbot liver, partridges and hazel grouses. In addition to this offal, various vegetables (both raw and boiled or sautéed), eggs, herbs, and canned foods are added to the Liver Salad. Mushrooms, green peas, tomatoes, pickled cucumbers, bell peppers, potatoes, walnuts go well with the liver. You can experiment a little with a combination of different products and come up with your own original liver salad recipe.
The principle of cooking the dish differs little from the general rules for preparing other salads. All ingredients, having passed the preliminary stage of processing, are cut in various ways (slices, cubes or sticks), mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise, vegetable oil or a special sauce. There are also recipes for liver salad, where all the components are stacked in layers.
Liver salad - preparing food and dishes
The set required for making a liver salad includes the following items: a cooking pot or a frying pan for frying the liver and other products, a knife, a cutting board, a grater and a salad bowl where all the ingredients will be stored.
All vegetables and herbs before cutting into a salad should be thoroughly washed under running water. The liver is usually scalded with water and the film is removed, only after that the product is subjected to heat treatment. If the liver needs to be cooked quickly, you can cut it into several parts and only then put it on the boil.
Liver salad recipes:
Recipe 1: Liver Salad
One of the most common options for making liver salad. The dish can be prepared for every day or served as a festive snack.
Required Ingredients:
- Beef liver - 400 g;
- 2 large carrots;
- Onions - 2 pcs.;
- Fat-free mayonnaise - 100 g;
- Ground black pepper.
Cooking method:
Wash the liver and remove the film. Put the product to boil in salted water until cooked (approximate cooking time - 40 minutes). Readiness can be checked like this: take a sharp object and make a puncture. Ready liver will release light juice. Cool the cooked liver, cut into small cubes. Carrots wash, peel, grate on a coarse grater. Peel and finely chop the onion. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown, add the carrots. Saute vegetables until tender over low heat. If the vegetable mixture starts to burn, you can add a little water. Combine chopped liver, sautéed vegetables in a salad bowl, add black pepper and mayonnaise, mix everything properly. If the salad turns out to be dryish, you can add a little oil, in which carrots and onions languished. Ready liver salad can be garnished with sprigs of fresh parsley.
Recipe 2: Sea Liver Salad
This nutritious and delicious snack is prepared in 5 minutes. The salad turns out to be quite satisfying and high-calorie, well suited for breakfast.
Required Ingredients:
- Bank of cod liver;
- Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- Onions (large) - 2 pcs.;
- Salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
Cod liver mash with a fork or cut into small pieces. Boil eggs, cool and chop. Finely chop the onion (you can pour boiling water over it to remove the bitterness). Combine products in a bowl, add salt and pepper, mix thoroughly. Cod liver is a fairly fatty product, so you do not need to season the salad with mayonnaise. The fat remaining in the jar will be enough.
Recipe 3: Liver Salad with Mushrooms
This delicious salad of liver and mushrooms is sure to delight loved ones and pleasantly surprise guests. The dish is prepared quickly enough, and also quickly eaten.
Required Ingredients:
- Veal liver - 300 g;
- Pickled cucumbers - 180 g;
- Champignons - 200 g;
- Eggs - 3 pcs.;
- Black ground pepper - to taste;
- Mayonnaise - 100 g.
Cooking method:
Wash the veal liver, remove the film, boil until tender in slightly salted water (it will take about 15-20 minutes), cool, cut into small cubes. Cut the champignons not too finely (they are very fried and lose in volume) and fry in vegetable oil (10-15 minutes). Hard boil eggs, cool, cut into small pieces. Cut pickled cucumbers into cubes, if there is a lot of water, squeeze lightly. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add pepper and season with mayonnaise. Garnish the finished liver salad with parsley and olives.
Recipe 4: Puff Liver Salad
This layered salad will rightfully take the honorable first place among other dishes of the festive table. Delicious and simple, it is sure to please friends and loved ones.
Required Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - half a kilo;
- 4 medium sized carrots;
- Pickled cucumbers of medium size - 5 pcs.;
- Chicken eggs - 6 pcs.;
- 4 small onions;
- Mayonnaise, vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Boil the chicken liver until tender (about 20 minutes) and cut into thin strips. Cucumbers cut into small cubes. Peel the carrots, boil, let cool and grate on a coarse grater. Finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil (until golden). Boil hard boiled eggs, pour water, then separate the whites and yolks from each other, chop the whites. Lay out the layers of liver salad in the following sequence: half of the cooked liver, a layer of mayonnaise, half of the fried onions, a layer of mayonnaise, half of cucumbers, a layer of mayonnaise, carrots, a layer of mayonnaise, proteins, a layer of mayonnaise. This is followed by layers of the remaining liver, onions and cucumbers, smeared with mayonnaise. The final layer is grated yolks. The dish can be decorated with herbs, olives or "roses" of cucumbers and boiled carrots. Leave the salad to soak in the refrigerator for several hours.
Recipe 5: Broccoli Liver Salad
This healthy dish, in addition to containing a large amount of vitamins and minerals, is also surprisingly tasty. The salad is prepared from ordinary products and does not take much time.
Required Ingredients:
- Half a kilo of beef liver;
- Broccoli cabbage - 300 g;
- Cherry tomatoes - 280 g;
- Cashew nuts - 2.5 tbsp. l.;
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
- Balsamic vinegar - 2.5 tbsp. l.;
- Mustard - 2.5 tsp
Cooking method:
Cut the liver into small cubes and fry in vegetable oil until tender. Immerse the broccoli florets in boiling water for 2 minutes, then immediately immerse them in cold water. This method of processing products is called blanching. Remove the cabbage from the water, fry in vegetable oil for two minutes, cut the cherry tomatoes into halves, add to the broccoli and fry for another 2-3 minutes. Prepare the sauce by mixing the vinegar and mustard thoroughly. Arrange the liver in portions on plates, put the vegetables on top, pour over the dressing. Sprinkle the top with roasted cashew nuts.
In order for the liver salad to turn out not just tasty, but very tasty, it is necessary to properly prepare the liver. The best chefs recommend soaking it in milk before boiling beef liver. The product is left in milk for at least half an hour. This is done in order to get rid of bitterness. After that, you can remove the film. It is better to cook the liver on a small fire.
Liver salad is very easy to make, and you don't have to have any culinary skills to make it. As a rule, liver salads are laid out in layers or have a combined look. As for the ingredients, it should be noted that almost all vegetables, both boiled and raw, go very well with the liver. Yes, and the liver itself can be: chicken, pork or beef, or maybe you want sea delicacies, then feel free to take pollock liver.
The liver is a storehouse of useful trace elements and vitamins. Copper, iron, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium - all of this is found in the liver. It is often used by athletes to maintain B vitamins in the body.
However, some housewives, despite all these positive properties of the liver, try to avoid meeting with this product. And it's all about the inability to properly cook the liver. This is such a unique product that even salt can spoil it, it is from salt that the liver becomes rubbery. But in order to remove the bitterness of the liver, it is enough to marinate it in ordinary milk for 2-3 hours.
How to cook liver salad - 15 varieties
As you know, the liver is a storehouse of useful vitamins and minerals, it is a high protein content, and finally it is just a delicious product. Liver salads are also very tasty and satisfying.
Ingredients:
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Beef liver - 400 g
- Garlic
Cooking:
First of all, of course, we need to boil the liver. It is enough to hold it for no more than an hour in boiled salt water. Next, peel and mince the garlic. We hold the garlic for a couple of minutes in hot oil in a pan, after which we send the liver there. Onion cut into thin rings. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Now mix all the ingredients and season the salad with mayonnaise.
Enjoy your meal.
The salad has a delicate taste, is hearty and light. In a word, suitable for any feast.
Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - 500 g
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Carrot - 3 pcs.
- Gherkins - 6 pcs.
Cooking:
Fry the liver in a frying pan with a little oil. In the same oil, fry the onion feathers. After that, add grated carrots, sugar and a little water to the onion. Close the lid on the carrots and onions and set aside for 5 minutes. Now add a little salt and a teaspoon of pepper to the liver. Now we mix everything with the liver. Cucumbers cut into cubes and add to the liver and carrots. Mix everything and mix with mayonnaise.
For some reason, offal is not valued as much as meat, although in the same liver there are many more useful trace elements and vitamins than in an ordinary piece of pork. If you don’t know what can be cooked from the liver, take this liver salad recipe into service, very tasty and satisfying.
Ingredients:
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Beef liver - 300 g
Cooking:
Rinse the liver well in running water, then send it to boil in salted broth. As soon as the liver has completely cooled, rub it on a fine grater. Boil eggs hard boiled, carrots also need to be boiled. Then grate the eggs on a fine grater, and the carrots on a coarse grater. Mix half of the liver with mayonnaise and lay out as the first layer. Now we mix the garlic with mayonnaise - we get the sauce with which we will lubricate each subsequent layer.
The layers will go in the following order:
- Carrot
- Liver
Decorate the salad as you wish.
Traditionally, appetizer salads are served cold, but there are varieties of salads that are served both hot and cold.
Ingredients:
- Beef liver - 350 g
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Walnut - 100 g
- Garlic
Cooking:
We cut the liver into cubes, pepper, salt, then send it to the pan, steam it from the beginning, then fry it. Now you need to beat the egg with 20 ml of mayonnaise and bake 2 thin pancakes. Now you need to cut the pancake into thin noodles. Fry carrots with a spoonful of vegetable oil. Mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise.
Salad with mushrooms and liver is very juicy, tasty and satisfying. This dish can also be served on the festive table. Preparing a salad is easy, especially since the necessary ingredients can be found in any store.
Ingredients:
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Salad - lettuce
- Greens
- Celery - 1 pc.
- Beef liver - 300 g
- Balsamic vinegar - 40 ml
- Butter - 50 g
- Mushrooms - 200 g
- Pumpkin seeds - 80 g
Cooking:
First of all, we clean the liver from films, then rinse it, cut it into sticks and fry in butter until cooked. Mushrooms cut into small pieces. Mushrooms can be taken. Both fresh and pickled. Cut the celery stalk into thin half rings. Chop the onion into small cubes. Combine all ingredients and season with balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. We spread the salad on greens and sprinkle with roasted pumpkin seeds.
Enjoy your meal.
Great salad with minimal ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Pork liver - 1 kg
- Onion - 4 pcs.
- Eggs - 5 pcs
- Mushrooms - 300 g
- Potatoes - 5 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- Green onions - 3 bunches
Cooking:
Fry the liver in a small amount of oil on both sides. Then add finely chopped onion to the liver, cover the pan with a lid and leave the liver to simmer for about 15-20 minutes. After that, salt and pepper and send to a salad bowl along with the resulting juice. Hard-boil the eggs and, after cooling completely, cut into large cubes. Cut the mushrooms and fry with butter together with onions. Cucumbers cut into cubes. Onion cut into small pieces. Boil potatoes and cut into small pieces. Finely chop the greens and add.
Universal salad for all occasions. Light, tasty and satisfying, and if you try and decorate, it will also be beautiful. In a word, simply irreplaceable salad.
Ingredients:
- Liver - 300 g
- Beans - 1 bank
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
Cooking:
Peel carrots and onions. Cut the onion into small cubes and send to fry in vegetable oil. We grate the carrots on a coarse grater and also fry. Boil the liver and grate on a coarse grater. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.
Enjoy your meal.
Hearty, tasty and simple - it's all about this salad.
Ingredients:
- Liver - 480 g
- Carrots - 4 pcs.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Cheese - 100g
- Garlic - 3 cloves
Cooking:
Boil the liver, it is best to salt after cooking.
Salting the liver is best after cooking. The liver becomes very hard from salt.
Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Hard-boiled eggs and three on a grater. Three livers on a coarse grater and divide into two even parts. Season one of the parts with mayonnaise and garlic. This mixture will be the bottom layer of our salad. Next, lay out the carrots and coat with mayonnaise. Then eggs and mayonnaise. Repeat the layer with carrots and liver. The top layer of lettuce is cheese, grated on a fine grater.
The presence of broccoli in this salad not only makes it tasty and original, but also very healthy. All the ingredients of this salad contribute a significant amount of trace elements and vitamins.
Ingredients:
- Beef liver - 0.5 kg
- Broccoli cabbage - 300 g
- Tomatoes - cherry - 280 g
- Nuts (cashew) - 100 g
- Vegetable or linseed oil - 100 ml
- Balsamic vinegar - 100 ml
- Mustard - 100 g
Cooking:
Cut the liver into large slices and fry in a pan with the addition of a small amount of oil on both sides. Broccoli is sent to boiling water for 3 minutes, then immediately sent to cold water. After such a heat treatment, we send the inflorescences to the pan and leave to fry for a couple of minutes. Cherry mode in half and send to broccoli. Mix all the ingredients. Season with vinegar and oil, sprinkle with nuts.
Cod liver salad has found many fans. Its simplicity and unique taste leave few people indifferent.
Ingredients:
- Potato - 4 pcs
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Cod liver - 1 can
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Pickled cucumber - 1 pc.
Cooking:
Grind the onion with a blender. Boil carrots, potatoes and eggs and rub on a coarse grater. Lay out the lettuce in layers.
- Potato
- Cod liver
- Potato
- Pepper
- Mayonnaise
- Grated cucumber
- Carrot
- Mayonnaise
- Eggs.
Enjoy your meal
This appetizer is sure to please every taster, don't be surprised when every guest asks for a salad recipe.
Ingredients:
- Calf's liver - 300 g
- Pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Champignons - 200 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
Cooking:
Rinse the liver well and clean from the film. Boil in broth for 20-25 minutes. Then take it out and let it cool down. Meanwhile, cut the mushrooms into medium pieces and fry in a pan until golden brown. Hard boil eggs and cut into pieces. Cucumbers cut into cubes. The foam had already cooled down by that time, it must be cut into cubes. Mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. You can decorate with olives or olives.
Today, in order to surprise guests, it is necessary not only to decorate the dish beautifully, but also to combine the products in it correctly. Just such a “correct” and very tasty snack has just caught your eye.
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 400 g liver
- 1 bulb
- 1 can of corn
Cooking:
So that the onion does not spoil the taste of the salad, marinate it in a mixture of vinegar (it can be apple or rice), sugar and salt for 30 minutes.
Fry the liver in a small amount of oil. Let's make egg pancakes. Mix eggs and salt. Fry 3 pancakes. Finely chop the greens, mix with onions. Roll up pancakes and cut into strips. Cut the liver into strips. Mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise.
Such a name - this dish was not accidental, it contains very useful and non-traditional ingredients, which together give a unique taste.
Ingredients:
- Leek - 100g
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Daikon - 500 g
- Liver - 1 kg
- Pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.
Cooking:
Boil the liver, cool and cut into strips.
Rub the daikon on a coarse grater, pepper and salt, leave for 10 minutes. Rinse the radish and drain in a colander.
To make the radish give off bitterness, sprinkle it with moths and leave for 10 minutes, then rinse.
Cucumber cut into small pieces. Cut the leek into small strips. Mix all the ingredients and season with butter or sour cream.
Cod liver is rich in useful trace elements and vitamins, moreover, despite the fatty taste, this product is low in calories. Prepare this salad and you will find out that cod liver combined with some products is also very tasty.
Ingredients:
- 1 can of cod liver
- 1 can of canned peas
- 2 eggs
- 3 potatoes
- 1 bulb
- Greens
Cooking:
Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel and cut into cubes. Cut the onion into small pieces and pour over with boiling water. Cod liver mode into pieces. Hard-boiled eggs, dice mode. We mix all the ingredients. We finely chop the greens. Salad can be dressed with mayonnaise, butter or your usual sauce.
It happens that you want something tasty, but simple, something unusual and interesting, just this recipe embodies all these qualities.
Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - 500 g
- Carrot - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 3 pcs.
- Kirieshki
Cooking:
Boil the liver and grate on a coarse grater.
Boil carrots and grate on a coarse grater. Cut the onion and fry. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise. Before serving, add kirieshki.
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