How to cook liver casserole - a dietary dish that is good for your figure

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Prepared by: Marina Shcherbakova

04/23/2017 Cooking time: 50 min

A simple, tasty and quick casserole will become both a wonderful lunch and a hearty dinner. I’m showing you a recipe for making potato casserole with liver in the oven, you won’t go hungry with it!

What are the benefits of the liver?

Before we begin our culinary creativity and preparation of casseroles, let's talk a little about how the liver is useful for the human body and what its health benefits are.

1. Liver is useful to eat for pregnant women, young children, as well as people who suffer from diabetes and atherosclerosis. It is recommended to include it in the diet of people who suffer from alcohol addiction.
2. The benefit of liver is that only 1 serving will provide you with a daily and even monthly requirement of many microelements and vitamins necessary for health.
3. The liver contains a substance - Heparin, which is necessary for the blood and keeps its clotting normal, and this is very useful for the prevention of myocardial infarction
4. Vitamin A contained in the liver helps heal urolithiasis.
5. The liver is useful because it contains many minerals (sodium zinc potassium copper iron and others), vitamins (B6, B12, A, B, C and others), amino acids (lysine, tryptophan, methionine, and folic acid).

The benefits of beef liver are that it is very rich in vitamins A and B and is useful for infectious diseases, kidney diseases, and diseases of the central nervous system. Helps with various types of injuries and burns, and is also great for preventing myocardial infarction.

Dishes prepared from beef liver are very useful as they help improve immunity and regenerate hemoglobin.

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Chicken liver is also very healthy - it is extremely rich in folic acid, and its benefits include maintaining and developing the immune and blood systems.

As you can see, from all of the above we can conclude that the benefits of liver and dishes made from it are obvious to the human body. So feel free to include this healthy food product in your diet, prepare all kinds of delicious dishes from it and make your loved ones happy.

Cooking tips

For a delicate taste, potato casserole with liver is prepared in the oven - with the addition of sour cream, cream, or simply poured with spicy broth. Many housewives are very fond of the cheese ingredient and use it everywhere. To make the treat look delicious and have a crispy crust, you can sprinkle the casserole with your favorite cheese. In other cases, breadcrumbs are used, which you can make yourself from black or white bread. What is important in a recipe is the fresh composition of the ingredients, the correct preparation and the benefits of a nutritious dish for the body.

Chicken liver casserole with rice in the oven

The recipe for liver casserole with rice is suitable for people suffering from anemia. This easy-to-prepare, but quite delicious-tasting casserole can help you raise hemoglobin and maintain the level of iodine in your body necessary for health.

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In addition, this dietary casserole will be useful for those who watch their figure and try to be in good shape.

Ingredients for cooking:

• chicken liver - 300 g;
• boiled rice - 400 g;
• onion - 2 heads;
• carrots - 100 g;
• vegetable oil – 4 tbsp. spoons;
• soy sauce – 3 tbsp. spoons;
• ground paprika – 1 teaspoon;
• salt to taste, ground black pepper (pinch);
• red hot pepper - ½ teaspoon;
• Dutch cheese – 150 g;
• balsamic vinegar - 2 teaspoons.

Preparing the casserole:

1. Boil the rice until cooked and leave to cool.
2. Let's prepare the marinade: pour soy sauce into a small bowl, add vinegar, ground red and black pepper, add paprika, and mix everything well.
3. Now let’s process the liver, cut off all excess, and fill it with aromatic marinade.
4. Cut the onion into half rings and saute it in vegetable oil, then add grated carrots to the onion and continue frying.
5. Place the fried vegetables in a cup with boiled rice.
6. In the frying pan where we just fried the vegetables, we put the pickled liver and fry it too.
7. After the liver is thoroughly fried, combine it with the rice-vegetable mixture and add a little salt to your taste and mix everything carefully.
8. Place the resulting mixture in a baking dish, sprinkle grated cheese on top and place in a preheated oven.
9. We cook our casserole at a temperature of 200 degrees until the cheese melts and lightly browns, this takes about 20 minutes.

After this, we take our dish out of the oven and enjoy the delicious liver casserole, the alluring aroma of spices and the golden crispy cheese crust.

Products:

• the most suitable spices (at your discretion);
• chicken liver (520 g);
• homemade full-fat sour cream (two tablespoons);
• large onion (one piece);
• any hard cheese (160 g);
• large potatoes (1.2 kg);
• juicy medium-sized carrots (one or two pieces).

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Step-by-step recipe with photos of potato casserole with chicken liver in the oven:

Let's prepare mashed potatoes: First peel the potatoes and cut them into large slices. Boil the chopped potatoes, then puree using a blender. You can add some selected milk to mashed potatoes.

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Preparing minced liver for casserole Chop the onion, previously peeled, into smaller pieces. Fry it until golden brown and soft. Grate the peeled carrots on the finest grater, then combine them with the fried onions. Add a small amount of cooking fat or vegetable oil to a separate frying pan and fry pieces of chicken or any other liver for fifteen minutes.

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Using an immersion blender, grind the fried liver into liver mince. Add fried carrots and onions to the minced meat. Salt, add spices and mix.

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Preparing potato casserole in the oven Prepare a small square baking dish. Place the first layer of mashed potatoes in it and smooth it out with a spatula. Next, spread the minced liver with carrots and onions evenly onto the potato layer. Place potatoes on the liver layer and pour sour cream. The top of the preparation for the future casserole of potatoes with liver should be sprinkled with additional grated cheese.

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Instead of hard cheese, you can use processed cheese, so the casserole in the oven will be more tender.

Place the future potato casserole for about twenty minutes in the oven, previously heated to two hundred degrees.

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As soon as the potato casserole with chicken liver is well browned, it will need to be cooled and then served with some sauce and salad.

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Liver souffle - like in kindergarten

You will be interested to know that this delicious dish is given to children for a reason. Vitamins A and B, as well as folic acid, which is found in the liver, will help your child develop fully, grow strong and healthy.

Ingredients for cooking:

• beef liver – 500 g;
• onion - one onion;
• white bread - 2 pieces;
• low-fat milk - 100 ml;
• one chicken egg;
• pepper and salt to taste.

Soufflé preparation:

1. Remember, to start preparing the dish, it is very important to properly prepare and process the liver: thoroughly wash the liver and remove large ducts from it.
2. Place a saucepan with salted water on the fire. When the water in the pan boils, discard the liver and cook for half an hour.
3. Then we take the boiled liver out of the water and cut it into large pieces.
4. Pour milk over the bread and soak it for 2 minutes.
5. At this time, peel and coarsely chop the onion.
6. When all the products are prepared, pass the boiled liver, soaked bread and chopped onions through a meat grinder.
7. You can pass the food through a meat grinder twice, this will only benefit the casserole, it will be tastier and more tender.
8. After we have ground all the products in a meat grinder, combine the liver mass with the egg, add a little salt and pepper and knead well.
9. If desired, you can add grated carrots to the dish. This will make our soufflé even tastier and healthier.
10. Grease the mold with oil, put the prepared minced meat in it and level it out.
11. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the mold in it. Bake this beauty in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
12. When the top of the dish is appetizingly browned, the casserole can be removed from the oven.

A delicious liver soufflé like in kindergarten is ready. You can add a tasty and fairly easy-to-prepare sauce to this dish.

Preparing the sauce:

1. Finely chop a medium-sized onion and fry until transparent in a mixture of vegetable and butter.
2. Mix tomato paste in a glass - 2 tbsp. spoons, 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, the same amount of regular flour and a little salt.
3. Fill the glass to the very top with water and stir well. Slowly pour this mixture into the fried onions in a frying pan and cook our sauce over low heat, stirring continuously until it thickens.

Cut the casserole into portions and serve with the prepared sauce.

Liver casserole of vegetables in a slow cooker

The recipe for vegetable liver casserole is simple and versatile. This dish is suitable for children and those on a diet.

To prepare liver casserole with vegetables, you will need the following ingredients:

• beef liver;
• potato;
• some cauliflower and carrots;
• a teaspoon of vegetable oil;
• If desired, you can add a little salt.

This casserole is prepared as follows:

1. First, prepare the vegetables for chopping, that is, wash, peel and chop them. Next, wash the liver, peel off the film and cut into pieces.
2. Then grind all the ingredients. For this it is better to use a meat grinder. Then the vegetables and liver will not turn into puree. After mixing all the ingredients, salt them. Grease with oil and place the mixture there.
3. Turn on the “Baking” mode in the multicooker and cook the dish for forty minutes. Check periodically to see if the casserole is ready. It may take a little less or more time. Remove the finished casserole by inserting a wire rack and turning the bowl over.

Pork liver casserole recipe

We will prepare a dietary casserole with buckwheat from pork liver. Pork liver is a very difficult task for cooks, especially beginners.

How to prepare a dish from pork liver so that it does not taste bitter?

There is an answer to this question: first, we rinse the liver very well with water and carefully remove all the films, and then soak it in milk for half an hour.

After these steps, you can prepare our dishes from pork liver and be sure that no bitterness will be felt in them.

. Ingredients for cooking:

• pork liver - 600 g;
• milk 100 ml;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• onion - 1 onion;
• lard - 100 g (Lard is added to this casserole as desired);
• boiled buckwheat - one and a half glasses;
• pepper and salt to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Preparing the casserole:

1. We prepare the liver as described above.
2. Boil the buckwheat until tender and let cool.
3. Finely chop the onion and lard and fry them in a frying pan in vegetable oil.
4. Pass the liver through a meat grinder, add lard, onion and eggs.
5. It is better to cook minced meat in a deep container, because you will get quite a lot of it. Add milk to the minced meat.
6. Beat with a fork until smooth and add buckwheat porridge.
7. Add spices, add a little salt, mix and place in a mold greased with vegetable oil.
8. Place the mold in a preheated oven and bake at 180 degrees for an hour and a half.

After an hour and a half of baking, you get an amazingly tasty dish.

Recipe with mushrooms

• 0.5 kg chicken liver;
• 0.1 kg cheese;
• 300 g champignons;
• 4 potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 15 g flour;
• 100 ml sour cream.

Time: 55 minutes.

Calories: 109.

How to cook:

1. Peel the mushrooms and chop them as desired. Remove the skins from the onion, rinse it and finely chop it.
2. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it. Add onions and mushrooms, fry until done.
3. Wash the liver thoroughly, remove fat and films.
4. Cut into small slices. Add to mushrooms and onions, fry for ten minutes.
5. Then add flour and mix well. Add spices to taste and sour cream.
6. Simmer for about thirty minutes, remembering to stir. Peel the potatoes and boil them whole. Cut into small slices and place the liver on top.
7. Then add the other half of the potatoes, distributing them evenly. Grate the cheese on top and place in the oven for ten minutes at medium temperature.

Potato casserole with liver

I offer you a recipe for potato casserole with liver.

Liver is a product that goes well with other products such as buckwheat, rice and potatoes. This way the dish always tastes different and almost never gets boring.

It is worth noting that with potatoes, liver casserole turns out especially tasty and tender.

Ingredients for cooking:

• potatoes - 1 kg;
• beef liver - 300 g;
• butter - 50 g;
• one egg;
• milk - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• onion - one large onion;
• one large carrot;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• cheese - 100 g;
• pepper, salt - to taste;
• vegetable oil, breadcrumbs or semolina.

Preparing potato casserole:

1. Wash, peel and boil the potatoes until tender.
2. Let's wash the liver, blood vessels and films for now.
3. Boil the liver in salted boiling water, and then grate it and all the excess will come off very easily.
4. You need to cook the liver for 20 minutes, periodically removing the foam. When the liver is cooked until tender, remove the top film and grate it.
5. Now chop and sauté the onion in a frying pan. When it becomes almost transparent, add grated carrots and fry until they become soft.
6. After this, combine the fried vegetables with grated liver, add the garlic passed through a press and pour in the milk. Stir and fry for another 3-4 minutes.
7. Lightly pepper and salt the minced liver and mix.
8. Mash the potatoes with a masher and prepare puree: add a lightly beaten egg and softened butter, add a little salt and mix well.
9. Grease a baking dish with sunflower oil and sprinkle it with breadcrumbs or semolina.
10. Divide the mashed potatoes into 2 parts. Place half of it on the bottom of the mold.
11. Place a layer of minced liver on top of the puree and cover with the remaining potatoes. Sprinkle the top of the casserole thoroughly with grated cheese.
12. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake the dish until the chicken appears tender and rosy. Baking time is about 20-25 minutes.

The finished potato casserole with liver is good served with sour cream and garnished with fresh herbs.

Recipe with rice

• 550 g liver;
• 10 g butter;
• 0.1 kg rice;
• 20 g of greens;
• 2 carrots;
• 3 eggs.

Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Calories: 142.

How to cook:

1. Rinse the rice until the water is clear and pour into a saucepan. Pour the required amount of water, add salt and place on the stove.
2. Turn on the heat and let the rice boil, then cook until done. Cover the finished cereals with a lid and let them simmer for another quarter of an hour.
3. After this, cool it. Cut the peel off the carrots, rinse the roots and grate them.
4. Rinse the liver, remove films and veins, and dry.
5. Cut into small pieces and grind with a blender. Rinse the greens and finely chop with a sharp knife. Mix carrots, greens, liver, rice, eggs.
6. Stir in the spices and bring all ingredients together until smooth. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the entire mixture into the pan and bake for about 40 minutes.