You always want to please your loved ones with delicious food. But this does not always work out usefully and on a budget. Today I want to draw your attention to a wonderful dish - chicken hearts in sour cream. They can act as a gravy for any side dish. And also be an independent dish.
Chicken is the most inexpensive type of meat, and its by-products are even more affordable. Not long ago we made chicken liver pate. Remember? If you still have liver or gizzards left, you can also stew them with hearts in sour cream.
You can prepare them in different ways: you can first boil them in water or fry them until half cooked. I will describe each cooking method in more detail below.
I heard somewhere that this dish is often prepared at restaurant level. But there’s nothing complicated here; anyone who wants a tasty meal can do it.
An important rule: to make the hearts soft and juicy, the entire cooking time should not exceed 30 minutes. If you cook them longer, they will become rubbery.
By-products must be washed and cleaned of blood vessels, fat and dried blood.
If your gravy turns out to be very liquid, then add 1 tsp to it. flour. If, on the contrary, it is very thick, then dilute the sour cream with water.
Chicken hearts stewed in sour cream in a frying pan
Most often, a deep frying pan is used to prepare this dish. It is convenient to fry and then simmer all the ingredients. So as not to dirty several dishes.
You can use any sour cream for the recipe. But be sure to check the expiration date of the product.
Ingredients for 1 kg of chicken hearts:
- 300 g sour cream,
- 2 onions,
- 4 cloves of garlic,
- salt pepper.
Let's deal with offal. Drain them in a colander and rinse well under running water.
We cut off the fat and blood vessels from them. Then cut each piece in half lengthwise. We do this with all the hearts and rinse them well again under running water.
Peel the onion and cut into cubes.
Pour some vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it and fry the onion until soft and transparent. Approximately 3 minutes on high heat.
Then add offal. Fry everything together and stir occasionally so that they do not burn.
The meat will release a lot of juice, and at this time add finely chopped garlic.
Salt and pepper. Then cover with a lid and simmer over medium heat until the moisture has completely evaporated. Then add sour cream and mix. Cook the ingredients for another 5 minutes.
Then turn off the heat and go eat a hot and aromatic dish. You can add any spices to taste.
With mushroom flavor
Mushrooms will add a unique taste and aroma to the hearts - the easiest way is to use fresh champignons.
Ingredients for stewing:
- hearts – 700 g;
- champignons – 200–300 g;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- oil, herbs, salt, seasonings.
Stages of the culinary process:
- By-products are washed and cleaned. Cut each heart in half.
- The processed mushrooms are cut into pieces. The onion is chopped.
- Take 2 frying pans: mushrooms and onions are fried in one of them, and hearts are fried in the other. The offal is heated for 8–10 minutes. over high heat until browned.
- Bring the mushrooms until half cooked, transfer them to the frying pan next to the hearts (reduce the flame). Salt the ingredients of the dish, add spices, season with sour cream, and mix.
- Simmer covered over low heat for about 15 minutes. (readiness is determined by the degree of softness of the hearts).
Sprinkle with fresh dill and serve.
How to cook chicken hearts in a slow cooker so that they are soft and juicy
I'll start with the simplest cooking option. For this we will use my favorite assistant - a slow cooker. I can’t do without her at all. I cook everything in it: from canning to casseroles. Its most important advantage is that you don’t have to run around and monitor the cooking.
Ingredients:
- 800 g chicken hearts,
- 2 onions,
- 3 tbsp. sour cream,
- 1 tbsp. vegetable oil,
- 1 glass of warm water,
- salt.
Let's start with preparing the products.
Peel the onion and chop finely. The shape of the pieces is not important, do as you are used to. For example, I like it when the onion is almost invisible in the dish, so I cut it into small pieces.
Let's take out the hearts. It doesn’t matter whether they are purchased from you or homemade, be sure to wash them under cold water. This is important to do, especially when the offal is chilled and has released a lot of blood.
We cut out the veins from the hearts and trim off the fat. If they are young, then there is little fat there and you can leave it. It is also advisable to cut them in half to remove any dried blood from inside.
Pour oil into the bowl, turn on the “Frying” or “Fry” program (whose menu is in English) and add the onion.
After 7 minutes, pour the offal into it.
Salt them and immediately add sour cream. Pour a glass of warm water on top.
Turn on the “Stew” or “Stew” mode for 25-30 minutes. There is no need to cook them longer so as not to spoil the taste.
The dish is prepared in a liquid gravy, so it will go well with a dry side dish, such as mashed potatoes.
Hearts with sour cream and potatoes
In order not to worry about a side dish for stewed hearts, you should immediately cook them with potatoes. The vegetables are soaked in the sauce and are very aromatic.
What ingredients will you need?
For the dish you need to take:
- potatoes – 6-7 tubers;
- hearts – 300-350 g;
- onion, clove of garlic - 1 pc.;
- sour cream - 3.5-4 tbsp. l.;
- salt, oil.
As for the spices for such a treat, ground black pepper will be enough.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process includes several stages:
- The hearts, cleared of films and washed, must be thoroughly dried with paper napkins.
- You need to heat a small amount of any vegetable oil in a frying pan and pour the prepared offal onto it. The hearts will fry with frequent stirring for 10-12 minutes.
- Then you need to add miniature onion cubes to them and cook until the vegetable is browned.
- Potatoes, cut into cubes, are placed in a saucepan and filled with water. Immediately after the mass boils, you can transfer the fried onions and hearts into it, and also add sour cream, salt, pepper and crushed garlic.
The saucepan is closed with a lid and the treat is simmered until the potatoes are soft.
Rules for serving dishes, decoration
The finished dish is served hot in portions. It is worth complementing it with assorted bread so that it is convenient to taste the aromatic gravy.
Hearts fried with onions in sour cream sauce
Now let's look at how to make sour cream sauce. It turns out thicker. Two new ingredients are added - flour and water.
The flour absorbs excess moisture as the gluten swells. the sauce thickens. You can use regular flour, or you can use toasted flour if you have it.
Ingredients:
- 500 g hearts,
- 1 tbsp. flour,
- salt, seasonings,
- 3 tbsp. sour cream,
- 1 onion,
- 100 ml water,
- vegetable oil.
Finely chop a small onion.
Pour a little oil into a deep frying pan and place the hearts. Fry them for 3 minutes. Add onion pieces to them and simmer until the juice evaporates.
Then add salt and pepper. It's time to add flour. Add sour cream and mix everything. Add a little water and simmer for another 15 minutes.
The sauce will become more viscous. It is very tasty to dip a piece of white bread into.
Chicken hearts fried in tomato-sour cream sauce - a spicy option
And this is a very interesting dish that looks and smells even more interesting. But it will take practically no time and effort.
Ingredients needed
- chicken hearts - 500 g;
- salad red onion - 1 medium head;
- sour cream with a fat content of 20% or higher - 3 large spoons;
- tomato paste or tomato puree – 1-2 large spoons;
- flour - 1 large spoon;
- boiled water or chicken broth - 1 cup;
- spices at your discretion;
- greens and vegetables for serving.
Recipe step by step with photo
Step 1. It all starts with washing the hearts and removing fat.
Step 2. Let's start with the onion - cut it as finely as possible and fry it until half cooked (preheat the oil in a fairly deep frying pan).
Step 3. Now it’s the turn of the hearts - fry them together with the onions for up to 15 minutes, without adding any water yet. It's important to just stir frequently so that nothing burns. As a result, the hearts will turn pale, open up and become slightly stewed, which will protect them from possible burning.
Step 4. Let's start preparing the tomato-sour cream sauce. Pour a glass of water or cold chicken broth into a small container, add sour cream and tomato paste. Add a spoonful of flour there and mix.
Step 5. Add the sauce to the saucepan, mix thoroughly - the flour may form lumps, so you need to try.
It remains to simmer the hearts under the lid over moderate heat for another quarter of an hour. At this stage, add all the spices and salt.
Chicken hearts fried in sour cream and tomato sauce - a spicy option
Bon appetit!
A simple recipe with mushrooms in a frying pan
We are now in mushroom season. We have already pickled milk mushrooms and boletus. And then we were treated to a small pile of mushrooms and I decided to add them to the offal.
Ingredients:
- chicken hearts - 1 kg,
- onions - 3 pcs.,
- sour cream - 3 tbsp.,
- mushrooms - 200 g,
- garlic - 3 cloves,
- salt pepper to taste.
We wash the hearts and clean them of everything unnecessary.
Cut the onion into half rings.
We wash the mushrooms, sort them and finely chop them. I immediately throw away all unfamiliar and questionable mushrooms to avoid poisoning.
Pour some oil into the frying pan. Sauté the onion on it for 1 minute. Then add the mushrooms to it.
After 3 minutes, add the hearts. Salt and pepper them to taste.
Close the lid and simmer for 10 minutes.
Then add heat and evaporate a little moisture. At this time, add finely chopped garlic. Add sour cream and simmer for 10 minutes.
Everything took 25-30 minutes.
Recipe for stewing in sour cream and garlic
When stewing hearts in sauce, it is delicious to immediately combine mayonnaise and sour cream.
And to brighten the taste of this gravy, fresh garlic is used.
What ingredients will you need?
For the dish you need to take:
- fresh chicken hearts – half a kilo;
- mayonnaise and sour cream - ½ tbsp each;
- garlic – 2-3 cloves;
- fresh herbs, salt.
It is better to use assorted greens. For example, a combination of fresh light basil, parsley and dill.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process includes several stages:
- For the sauce, combine sour cream and mayonnaise in a common bowl. Salt the mixture to taste. Garlic passed through a press is poured into it.
- The hearts are cleaned, washed, after which they are laid out in a frying pan, filled with a small amount of water, salted and left to simmer for 8-9 minutes.
- Then you can add the sauce to them.
Under a tight lid, the treat will cook for just under half an hour over low heat. Periodically, the gravy can be thoroughly mixed.
Rules for serving dishes, decoration
Any side dishes will suit this dish. For example, buckwheat porridge or bulgur.
Chicken hearts and liver stewed in sour cream
Now let's take a closer look at how to cook chicken offal together. Maybe you have liver or gizzards lying around in the freezer. They will perfectly complement the dish and will also turn out tender and flavorful in the gravy.
Compound:
- hearts - 400 g,
- liver - 400 g,
- sour cream - 250 g,
- onions - 2 pcs.,
- salt,
- pepper,
- water - 0.5 cups.
Let's start cooking by preparing the offal. We clean and rinse the hearts and liver.
Make sure that the spleen is cut off from the liver, otherwise you will end up with bitter, inedible food.
Finely chop a couple of onions.
Place onion in hot oil and fry for 5 minutes. Then add offal. You can also add stomachs.
Fry over high heat for 2 minutes so that a lot of juice does not form. And he managed to evaporate. Salt and pepper the food.
Then add sour cream and water and mix.
Reduce heat and simmer with the lid closed.
Cook for another 25 minutes.
Description of preparation:
Despite the fact that chicken hearts are a very healthy product, there are not so many people who love dishes made from them, but I simply adore various offal products, so today I will share with you my favorite recipe for making chicken hearts in sour cream sauce.
It is difficult to find a more successful combination than sour cream and hearts, but together they give an excellent result; the dish turns out aromatic and juicy. Well, it doesn’t even make sense to talk about its economy, I think everyone already knows about it, so in this recipe you will learn how to cook chicken hearts in sour cream sauce - a tasty, healthy and inexpensive dish. Purpose: For lunch / For dinner / Inexpensive Main ingredient: Poultry / Chicken / Chicken hearts Dish: Sauces / Hot dishes / Sour cream sauce
Dietary stewed hearts in a pot
Let's turn our attention to one more recipe. Hearts prepared using it can be given even to children, because we will not fry the ingredients. This means they will have very little fat.
Ingredients (for 1 pot of 500 ml):
- chicken hearts - 500 g,
- 7 cloves of garlic,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- onions - 0.5 pcs.,
- sour cream - 2 tbsp.,
- salt, pepper, seasonings,
- water – 100 ml.
As always, thoroughly rinse and clean the hearts. Place them in a separate bowl.
Cut half an onion into pieces.
Cut the carrots into slices or half rings. So that they can be felt. We put all the products together. Chop the garlic and add it there.
Salt and pepper the mixture. Add all your favorite seasonings and mix.
For seasonings, I most often use coriander, nutmeg, suneli hops or herbs de Provence. They are not expensive and the composition is natural. I prefer to avoid seasonings with flavor enhancers and preservatives.
Fill the clay pot with food to the brim, pour in a third of a glass of water and add 2 tablespoons of sour cream on top. If yours is oily and homemade, then you can get by with just one spoon.
Preheat the oven, set it to 180 degrees and send the pots to cook for 1 hour.
If you want to use them as an independent dish, you can also put chopped potatoes underneath. But then the amount of by-products will need to be reduced by half or several clay pots used.
Cooking in a slow cooker
Stewing chicken hearts in such a unit is even easier: you will need a standard set of products and minimal intervention in the cooking process.
Ingredients:
- hearts – 600–700 g;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- sour cream – 170–200 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- salt, spices, oil for frying vegetables, herbs.
Cooking process step by step:
- The hearts are prepared for stewing in advance: washed, cleaned, cut into 2 halves.
- Coarsely grate the carrots and finely chop the onion.
- Saute the onions in the multicooker bowl for about 15 minutes, setting the “Baking” mode. Add carrots to it and continue to fry (10 minutes), constantly working with a spatula.
- Offal is placed in a bowl. Sour cream is diluted a little with water and sent to the hearts. Salt, add spices, mix.
- Select the “Quenching” mode. Cook for 60 minutes.
Sprinkle with finely chopped aromatic herbs.
Delicious recipe with cheese in the oven
It’s very tasty to bake them in sauce and under a cheese crust.
For 300 g of chicken hearts take:
- sour cream – 200 g,
- cheese – 100 g,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- bulb.
Boil the hearts in boiling water for exactly 4 minutes.
Finely chop the onion. Place three cheeses on a fine grater in a separate plate.
Squeeze the garlic into the sour cream, add seasonings or chopped fresh herbs.
Place garlic sauce on the bottom of a deep dish. We place offal in it.
You can put tomatoes or potatoes on them if you want. Pour onions over the offal and make a cap of cheese.
Bake at 190 degrees for 35-45 minutes.
It’s best to serve while still warm, so that the cheese stretches and the sauce doesn’t have time to thicken.
How to choose the right chicken hearts?
Every housewife should know how to choose the right chicken hearts. In stores, this offal can be seen chilled or frozen. It is preferable to buy chilled giblets, since with such storage they retain all their beneficial properties.
When choosing chicken hearts, you must adhere to the following rules:
- First, you should carefully examine the packaging. There should be no damage to it. There must also be markings with the production date and expiration date.
- Frozen hearts should not have a lot of ice, as this will indicate that they have been defrosted several times.
- It is very important to pay attention to the appearance of the hearts: they should be smooth, even, dense, dark scarlet in color. The presence of an unpleasant odor, stains, mucus or a brown tint will indicate their low quality.
On a note! Instead of sour cream, you can use heavy cream - it will give the dish a delicate creamy taste, but in this case the sauce will not have the characteristic sourness.
Roast offal and potatoes
You can get a more nutritious dish if you add everyone’s favorite potatoes.
Ingredients:
- 200 g hearts,
- 300 g potatoes,
- salt – 1 tsp,
- seasonings: coriander, suneli hops, Provençal herbs,
- 1 tsp butter,
- 2 tbsp. olive oil,
- 1 onion,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 clove of garlic,
- garlic, sour cream.
Cut the potatoes into long slices and fill them with water in a separate bowl so that they do not turn black. Cut the onion into half rings.
Three carrots on a grater. I prefer the shallow side so that the vegetables are less noticeable in the food.
We wash the hearts and cut them into 4 parts. Pour oil into a frying pan and add butter to it. Stir them over high heat until they combine into one consistency.
Then pour out the hearts. Fry them for 5 minutes. Then add onions and carrots to them. Fry for another 5 minutes.
Now add the potatoes. Sprinkle it with your chosen spices. You can even add a bay leaf.
Salt and pepper our roast. Finely chop a clove of garlic and pour it into the potatoes.
So fry for another 3 minutes over medium heat. Then add sour cream. Close the lid and simmer for 20 minutes until the potatoes are ready.
Cooking options
To cook chicken hearts in sour cream in a tasty and varied way, you need to know not only the traditional way of preparing them.
Hearts with sour cream and mushrooms
Dishes become more original if you add mushrooms to traditional ingredients. With this preparation method the following are used:
- chicken hearts – 500 g;
- onion – 1;
- sour cream – 150 ml;
- olive oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
- greenery;
- carrot – 1;
- mushrooms – 300 g;
- salt.
The giblets are washed, cleaned of excess and cut into halves. After removing the onion skins, chop it into small pieces that need to be fried. Then prepared pieces of meat are added to it. The carrots are grated and placed in the same bowl. Following this are sliced mushrooms. The components are mixed and seasoned with fermented milk product. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the dish until done. Before serving, add salt, herbs and spices.
Hearts with sour cream and potatoes
By adding potatoes to your food, you can make it more satisfying. List of required products:
- chicken hearts – 300 g;
- potatoes – 6 pcs;
- onion – 1;
- olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
- salt;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- pepper;
- sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
Preparing by-products involves removing excess from them and rinsing them under running water. Then each piece is cut in half and lightly fried in oil. Chop the onion, place it in a separate frying pan and fry until transparent.
Peeled and diced potatoes are placed in a pan with water. There should be a little water - about half the contents. When the potatoes boil, add chicken hearts and fried onions. You also need to add sour cream, spices and finely chopped garlic. Cover the dish with a lid and leave the dish to simmer until cooked.
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker
To prepare a dish using this modern device, you need the following products:
- chicken hearts – 1 kg;
- water – 1 l;
- onion – 2;
- carrot – 1;
- salt;
- parsley;
- dill;
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.;
- spices.
Fat and films are cut off from offal, washed and cut in half. The onion is divided into large cubes. The carrots are chopped using either a grater or a knife. All components are placed in the multicooker bowl. Tomato paste diluted with water is also sent there. You need to cook in the “Stew” program. Duration – 45 minutes. The prepared product is seasoned with spices and sprinkled with herbs.
Chicken hearts in sour cream and cheese sauce
For this type of dish you will need the following ingredients:
- chicken hearts – 600 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- salt;
- onion – 1;
- sunflower oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
- processed cheese – 100 g;
- dill – 20 g;
- starch – 0.5 tsp;
- parsley – 20 g;
- sour cream – 3 tbsp. l.;
- water – 100 ml;
- ground pepper.
The offal is thoroughly washed and blood and films are removed. They need to be cut in half. The onion is divided into cubes. The giblets are placed in oil in a heated frying pan, sprinkled with pepper and salt and fried over high heat. Then reduce the heat, cover the dish with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes.
Place the chopped onion in a separate frying pan and fry until it becomes translucent. The cheese is passed through a coarse grater. Next, the offal needs to be mixed with onions and simmered for another quarter of an hour. Cheese and sour cream are added to the resulting mass.
After mixing, chopped garlic, chopped herbs, starch and water are sent there. You need to simmer the covered dish for another 5 minutes.
Offal with sour cream in the oven
This cooking method will make offal even more useful. The following will be used in the work:
- chicken hearts – 0.5 kg;
- onion – 1;
- sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter;
- salt;
- pepper.
The onion is cut into pieces and fried in butter. Washed and chopped chicken hearts are added to it. The mixture is supplemented with sour cream and spices, after which it is transferred to a baking dish. Cover with a lid and place the dishes in an oven heated to 200 degrees. It will take 50-60 minutes to prepare.
Hearts with garlic
You can cook chicken hearts in sour cream and garlic. Ingredients for this option:
- chicken hearts – 400 g;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- wheat flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
- sunflower oil;
- leek – 150 g;
- sour cream – 5 tbsp. l.;
- ground white pepper;
- dill;
- salt.
The by-products are washed and removed from excess fat. The leek should be divided into leaves and choose those that are white. They must be washed well and then cut into cubes. The garlic must be crushed using a press.
Fry the vegetables in oil until golden brown and add the offal to them. Mix ingredients and fry for 5 minutes. Fry the flour (without oil) in a separate dry frying pan. When it becomes creamy, add it to sour cream and add salt, chopped dill and white pepper. The resulting mixture is poured into a frying pan with onions and giblets, covered with a lid and left to simmer over low heat. This will take from 15 to 30 minutes.
Chicken hearts in cream – video recipe
Stewed stomachs and hearts
Chicken hearts can be stewed along with the gizzards. The calorie content of such a dish will be only 129 kcal per 100 g.
And BZHU:
| BJU | Value in g per 100 g |
| Squirrels | 10,7 |
| Fats | 8,3 |
| Carbohydrates | 2,5 |
What ingredients will you need?
For the dish you need to take:
- chilled hearts and ventricles – 350-400 g each;
- ripe tomato, carrot, white onion - 1 pc.;
- tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.;
- water – ½ tbsp.;
- salt and sugar - 2 g each;
- oil.
As a vegetable, you can also add sweet peppers to your treat.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process includes several stages:
- Cleaned and washed hearts and stomachs should be placed in a common frying pan with heated oil. They will be fried until golden brown.
- Next, pour all the chopped vegetables into the pan. Together, the ingredients need to be fried for approximately 10-12 minutes.
- Then tomato paste, salt, and sugar are added to the mass. The amount of the latter can be adjusted to your liking.
All that remains is to pour in the water and simmer the treat over low heat for about half an hour.
Rules for serving dishes, decoration
Hearts prepared according to this recipe are combined with a variety of side dishes. You can serve them for lunch with a light vegetable salad.
With cheese added to sauce
The hearts will become even tastier if you stew them in cheese and sour cream sauce.
To do this you will need the following products:
- hearts – 600 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- cheese – 100 g;
- sour cream – 150–200 g;
- flour – 1 tsp;
- salt, spices, oil.
Culinary process step by step:
The offal is washed, peeled and cut lengthwise (as in the previous recipe).
In a frying pan for 2 minutes. fry onion, cut into small pieces.
Add the hearts to the onions and fry for 7–10 minutes. over medium heat. Stir.
Salted and seasoned with spices. Simmer for 10 minutes. in a closed frying pan.
Add sour cream and flour and combine everything thoroughly.
Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the hearts in sour cream. Mix everything again so that the chips are evenly distributed among the products.
Continue to simmer the dish under the lid (7 minutes), then remove from heat.
