The liver is an offal from which many delicious dishes are prepared: it is stewed, baked, boiled, pancakes are made of it, it is used to make salads.
A beautiful, original and very tasty cake is obtained from the liver.
Liver cake with carrots and onions - general principles
Making a cake is easy. It is enough to thoroughly clean the liver, grind it in a blender, mix with spices, egg and flour, bake liver cakes.
Ready cake mixes cool and form a cake out of them. Moreover, they use completely different fillings. Especially popular is the stuffing made from sauteed onions with carrots. Additionally, if desired, you can put other vegetables, mushrooms, cheeses, herbs and much more.
To make the cake juicy, each cake is greased with mayonnaise or specially prepared sauce.
The height of the cake can be any, depending on the number of cakes used. It is more convenient if, after all, the snack is not too big, 5-6 shortcakes are enough.
1. The classic liver cake recipe with carrots and onions
Ingredients:
• pork liver - 455 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• milk - 435 ml;
• flour - 215 g;
• 1 large carrot;
• 1 onion;
• mayonnaise - 235 g;
• 5 branches of dill and parsley;
• salt - 25 g;
• 85 ml of sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
1. The liver is freed from films and blood clots, cut into small pieces, spread into a deep cup, pour half the milk and leave for 45 minutes.
2. Carrots with onions are peeled, washed, chopped carrots on a coarse grater, onions - with a thin straw.
3. First spread the onion in a frying pan with butter, sauté for 3 minutes, then add the carrots and sauté another 8 minutes, often stirring. At the end of frying, vegetables are salted.
4. The liver is transferred to a colander and washed well under running water and ground in a meat grinder.
5. Add the egg to the liver mass, pour in the remaining milk, add flour, a little more salt and mix everything thoroughly.
6. A clean frying pan is heated, greased with oil and about half of the cooked liver dough is poured onto it, smeared with a spoon over the entire surface of the pan, fried for 2-3 minutes on one side, then turn over and fry on the other side for the same time on a small flame of fire . Do the same with the rest of the mass.
7. A cake is formed: one liver flat cake is placed on a flat plate, a small amount of passer is applied to it, spread and covered with a second flat cake, again a layer of passer. And so they continue until all the cakes and toppings are over.
8. The last cake is greased with mayonnaise and lay a layer of passerovka.
9. Decorate with sprigs of parsley and dill.
10. Allow to drink in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Liver cake with carrots and onions with spices
Ingredients:
• any liver - 520 g;
• 2 eggs;
• milk - 225 ml;
• 215 g flour;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• mayonnaise - 250 g;
• 65 g of ground basil, oregano, caraway seeds;
• black pepper, salt - 30 g each;
• fresh dill - 7 branches;
• 55 ml of refined oil.
Cooking method:
1. All films and blood clots are cut from the liver, washed well, cut into small pieces. If pork liver is used, soak in milk or water for several hours.
2. Grind the liver with a hand blender to a mushy state.
3. Peeled onions and carrots are chopped: carrots are on a grater, onions are in strips and passer for ten minutes.
4. Add eggs, milk, sifted flour to the crushed liver, add basil, caraway seeds, oregano, add salt, pepper, mix.
5. From the cooked liver mass, thin cakes are fried in a hot and greased frying pan for 3 minutes on both sides over medium heat.
6. On a flat dish put one cake, grease with a small amount of vegetable passerovka, cover with a second cake and also smear passerovoy.
7. The same thing is done with the remaining cakes.
8. The last cake is greased with mayonnaise and sprinkled with dill.
9. Leave to be drunk in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
10. Before serving, cut into small portions.
3. Turkey liver cake with carrots and onions
Ingredients:
• 565 g turkey liver;
• 2 medium carrots;
• 3 onions;
• 220 ml of milk;
• 255 g of mayonnaise;
• 145 g flour;
• 265 ml of refined oil;
• 50 g of salt and pepper.
Cooking Method:
1. The turkey liver is thoroughly washed from the blood ducts, minced in a meat grinder to a puree state.
2. Add the egg to the resulting mass, pour milk, a small amount of refined oil, season with black pepper, add salt and stir thoroughly.
3. Pour the sifted flour, stir again.
4. Peeled onions chopped with crumbs, carrots - on a coarse grater and fry in oil for 8 minutes. Turn off the fire, cool passerovka.
5. A clean frying pan, greased with oil, is heated and poured over the floor of the liver mass of the liver mass, the pan is tilted in different directions so that the mass is distributed over the entire surface, fry on one side and the other for 3 minutes on low heat.
6. A cake is formed: one flat cake is placed on a large flat plate, smeared with mayonnaise, a little vegetable passerovka is laid, smeared, covered with a second flat cake.
7. Next lay the third, fourth and so on, also smeared with mayonnaise and sauté.
8. The top and sides are greased with mayonnaise, optionally sprinkled with herbs.
9. Leave in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
4. Liver cake with carrots and onions with garlic
Ingredients:
• beef liver - 620 g;
• flour - 140 g;
• milk - 150 ml;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 eggs;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• mayonnaise - 220 g;
• black pepper, salt - 65 g each;
• vegetable oil - 240 ml;
• onion greens - 8 feathers.
Cooking method:
1. The liver cleaned from the films is washed, cut into pieces and chopped in a meat grinder.
2. Salt, pepper, mix thoroughly.
3. Add milk, eggs, flour, stir until a homogeneous, semi-thick consistency.
4. The cooked mass is poured into a hot pan with oil, half a pot for each flat cake and roasted for 3 minutes on both sides in a small flame of fire.
5. Baked cakes spread on a flat plate, slightly cool.
6. In a separate frying pan in oil, pass the carrots and onions for 10 minutes.
7. Peeled and chopped garlic in garlic, combine with mayonnaise, mix well.
8. Put one flat cake on a flat dish, coat with garlic dressing, then put a little vegetable roast, spread with a spoon, cover with a second flat cake, also grease with dressing and fried vegetables. Also done with the remaining cakes.
9. The surface of the liver cake is smeared with mayonnaise, spread the remaining roast, sprinkle with chopped feathers of green onions.
10. Insist the cake in the refrigerator for 25 minutes.
5. Whip liver cake with carrots and onions
Ingredients:
• any liver - 545 g;
• onions, carrots - 2 pcs.;
• refined oil - 175 ml;
• milk - 160 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 155 g;
• mayonnaise - 320 g;
• Russian cheese - 110 g;
• 8 branches of any greenery;
• 60 g of pepper and salt.
Cooking method:
1. The offal, cleaned from films and blood ducts, is well washed with running water, crushed with a hand blender.
2. The vegetables freed from husks and peels are cut: onions - crumbs, carrots - on a grater with small holes and combined with chopped offal.
3. Pour milk into the mass, a small amount of oil, add eggs, flour, add salt, add pepper, mix well.
4. Pour the floor of the semi-liquid liver test dough onto a hot pan and fry for 3 minutes on both sides over low heat. Spread on a flat plate, cool.
5. Each liver cake is smeared with mayonnaise and passerovka, put on top of each other.
6. The surface and sides are also greased with mayonnaise and sprinkled with cheese, decorated with sprigs of greenery.
7. Drink in the refrigerator for half an hour.
6. Chicken liver mini cake with carrots and onions
Ingredients:
• 460 g chicken liver;
• 3 medium onions;
• carrot - 2 pcs.;
• 165 g flour;
• 2 eggs;
• half a dessert spoon of salt, pepper and any spice;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 160 g sour cream;
• 170 ml of refined oil.
To decorate:
• tomatoes - 2 things;
• half a bunch of dill, parsley.
Cooking method:
1. The chicken liver purified from the films is washed, scrolled through a meat grinder along with peeled carrots and onions.
2. Break eggs, flour, salt, season with seasoning, stir well.
3. Fry round cakes in a hot frying pan for 3 minutes on all sides on a low flame of fire, cool on a flat plate.
4. Peeled garlic is passed through a press and combined with sour cream, salt, add any spice if desired, stir well.
5. On a large portioned dish, lay small fried flat cakes, each coat with sour cream and garlic dressing, cover with a second flat cake and grease with dressing again.
6. Greens are rinsed, chopped with a knife. Washed tomatoes are cut in half circles.
7. Put mini cakes in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
8. On the surface of the cakes put tomatoes and sprinkle with herbs.
Liver cake with carrots and onions - tips and tricks
• To rid the liver of a specific taste before grinding it is recommended to soak it in milk.
• To prevent the crusts from breaking, make a cake not too large in diameter, put the liver mass on a well-heated pan, turn the cake over, holding it on both sides.
• Serve liver cake is recommended after two to three hours of soaking in the refrigerator.
