Chicken livers - how do you cook them??
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Comments (3)I would fry the chicken in a little olive oil, remove the chicken, add the marinade to the pan and simmer to thicken....add back the chicken to re-warm ands erve. Sounds good! Linda C...See MoreChicken livers and pre-cooked bacon
Comments (13)Random Thoughts Thunk While Cooking: A cook is only as good as the ingredients and ingenuity used. What a nightmare. What a colossal nightmare. lol For the non-liver lovers, chicken would've been a good substitute, but did I get breasts or tenders. No. I got thighs because it reminded me of a dinner made by my Aunt Mary-on-the-farm when I was a child. I cleaned and cut for a very long time. The chicken livers were frozen, but, in the past, it's never been a problem. These things were just awful - all mashed up together (like someone took a meat pounder) to the point where I really had to hunt for the connective tissue. Just in case, going to a real butcher instead of taking a chance at the supermarket was supposed to not have this problem. Surprise. I can't even give him the benefit of the doubt and I tried. No self respecting cook would ever use this things in a sauce or a soup. I've cooked purchased, pre-cooked, bacon once before for BLTs but really didn't pay that much attention to it other than the fact it cooked quickly without grease everywhere. Last night, I really got a chance to eyeball it. When the box says to cook it til crispy, it really means to cook until dry. There's a difference. lol I didn't use it. So, prosciutto wouldn't be a good candidate for rumaki. Pancetta would, though. I didn't use pancetta because I wasn't quite sure how it would go with the marinade and other stuff I was making. So, I used a nice smoky bacon. More later. Nice photo array, Rob333!...See MoreLOOKING for: Chicken Liver recipes
Comments (13)Ruthanna, Here is a rather "dressy" chicken liver recipe I cut out of the Boston Globe a number of years ago. I made it once, and my husband almost swooned! I'll type it just as it appeared. JOE SIMONE'S CHICKEN LIVERS COOKED IN MILK "Joe Simone of Tosca restaurant in Hingham soaks chicken livers in milk for a couple of hours before sauteing them in oil. He says it tenderizes the livers and gives them a cleaner flavor. To them he adds apricots, dates, and other dried fruits soaked in the Italian wine vin santo, plus pancetta and onions." 1/2 cup dried apricots, snipped into thin strips 1 cup whole pitted dates 1/4 cup golden raisins 2 tablespoons currants 1 cup vin santo (Italian dessert wine) or another sweet wine 2 pounds chicken livers 2 cups whole milk Kosher salt and fresly ground black pepper, to taste Flour (for dredging) 1/2 cup olive oil 2 slices (1/4 inch thick) pancetta, coarsely chopped 2 onions, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage 1/2 cupe chicken stock 2 tablespoons butter, cut into 4 pieces Half a day in advance, soak the apricots, dates, raisins and currants in the wine. Set them aside at room temperature. Several hours before cooking, rinse and clean the chicken livers, removing any veins. In a large bowl, combine them with the milk and stir gently. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours. With a slotted spoon, lift the livers from the milk. Pat them dry with paper towels. Sprinkle them with salt. Place the flour on a plate. Dredge the livers in the flour, shaking off the excess. Have on hand a plate with a double thickness of paper towel. In a large skillet, heat the oil (there should be a thin film on the bottom of the pan). When the oil is very hot but not smoking, cook the livers in batches, without crowding them. Brown them well on both sides. Transfer them to the paper towels to drain, and cook any remaining livers in the same way. Remove the fat from the skillet. Add the pancetta and onions and cook them over medium-high heat for 10 minutes or until the onions are soft and the pancetta is crisp. Add the fruit and any wine left in the bowl to the skillet along with the sage and the thyme. Cook over high heat, scraping any brown bits that cling to the bottom of the pan. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat slightly and cook the sauce until it is reduced by half. Add the butter and swirl it around the pan just until it melts. Return the chicken livers to the pan and warm them through. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serve at once. Makes 6 servings. (We enjoy chicken livers with roasted, mashed buttercup squash and sauteed broccolini, which is how I think I served this delicious rendering). seagrass...See MoreChopped chicken liver--can I freeze it?
Comments (15)While it's true that traditional Ashkenazie cooks don't use mayonnaise as an extender--or for much of anything else except to dress tuna salad and egg salad--it's a very American, especially Midwest, thing to do. People put mayo in guacamole, mac and cheese, and all kinds of other things I would never think of. When Hellman's/Best Foods started selling stable mayo in jars, Americans started using it for a bit of zing in just about anything. There's an Israeli eggplant salad called (translated) "eggplant in mayonnaise". It makes Americans looking for baba ganouj nuts! There's also an Israeli salad called "eggplant in techina", which is basically baba ganouj, but you can't always tell the difference by looking, especially as there is often technia in the mayo salad as well (which is, by the way, delicious, if one isn't expecting baba ganouj!). "Recipe": Jewish Chopped Chicken Liver--render down some chicken fat with onion wedge. Use a yellow/Spanish onion for the traditional yellowish color. You can put the chicken fat in skins and all and the skins will turn to cracklings (but then you need more fat because they take away some). Let cool so the onion juice will separate below. Put cleaned livers in a small pot with a generous amount of schmaltz (the chicken fat) and some chopped onion and cook. Cook until the livers look good and cooked through. Pour out on a cutting board and chop with your biggest knife, when it's rough chopped add S&P. Add a hard boiled egg either during the chopping process, or chop separately and stir it in at the end. Keep chopping. It should hold together like a paste rather than crumbly (add more schmaltz if necessary), but still have texture. It should be craggy, not be smooth like a dip....See More- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoseagrass_gw Cape Cod thanked writersblock (9b/10a)
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