One of the most unusual, delicious, satisfying and tender snacks is liver cake. It looks very beautiful on the table and is eaten instantly. We will tell you how to make liver cake.
How to make beef liver cake?
The cake consists of a stack of liver pancakes with a delicious filling spread between them.
We will need:
For filling
- fresh dill - a bunch;
- onion – 3 pcs.;
- garlic cloves – 3 pcs.;
- carrots – 4 pcs.;
- mayonnaise sauce – 300 ml;
- oil – 80 ml;
For the cakes:
- milk – 150 ml;
- egg – 4 pcs.;
- sunflower oil – 45 ml;
- beef liver – 1 kg;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- cream 10% - 200 ml;
- flour – 75 gr.
Step-by-step instruction:
- We process all vegetables and liver, removing films, husks, peels and rinsing under the tap.
- Cut the liver into small pieces and grind in a blender, adding slices of one onion
- Break chicken eggs into a blender bowl, pour cream, sunflower oil, milk, add salt, flour and pepper to taste. Turn on the kitchen appliance. It turned out to be a kind of dough for pancakes.
- We pour it into a frying pan treated with oil and make thin pancakes. Bake for 2 minutes on each side.
- Let the pancakes cool. Let's start filling.
- Grind the onion with carrot roots into fine crumbs, put it in a frying pan in oil and sauté until the products soften.
- Finely chop the washed bunch of dill and pass the garlic cloves through a press. Mix processed products with mayonnaise.
- Assembling the cake. Place the first cake on a flat wide plate.
- Cover it with a layer of mayonnaise with herbs and garlic and carrot and onion mixture, cover with a second pancake.
- We continue this way until the ingredients and pancakes run out.
- If there is still some filling left, do not throw it away, but coat the sides of the cake with it.
- Sprinkle it with herbs and close it in the refrigerator for 4 hours, then cut it into pieces and enjoy.
You can prepare many interesting and tasty dishes from liver. Liver cake is the best of them all. Even those who don’t like liver will devour this dish on both cheeks.
Liver cake - basic cooking principles
Many housewives do not dare to cook liver cake, believing that it is long and troublesome. Yes, you will have to tinker, but in reality everything is not as scary as it seems.
Cake pancakes are made from chicken, beef or pork liver. It is better, of course, to use chicken offal, since poultry liver cooks faster and has a delicate taste. The liver is washed, all excess is removed and passed through a meat grinder. Eggs, sour cream and flour are placed in the resulting dough base. To prevent the pancakes from turning out rubbery, add eggs at the rate of one per 200 g of offal.
Pancakes are baked from the dough, being careful not to make them too thick.
When all the pancakes are ready, start preparing the filling. To do this, peel the onion and finely chop it. Peeled carrots are passed through the large holes of a grater. Then the vegetables are fried until soft and cooled.
Mayonnaise or sour cream is used for the sauce. Garlic is squeezed into it through a press and mixed.
Then place the pancake on a flat dish, grease it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and lay out the vegetable filling. Cover with the next pancake and repeat layers. This is how the cake is assembled until the pancakes and filling are gone.
You can use vegetables, eggs or corn for decoration.
You can use fresh tomato slices or green onions in the layer.
Recipe 1. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) from beef liver
Ingredients
beef liver – 400 g;
three eggs;
fresh herbs;
200 ml milk;
50 ml sunflower oil;
100 g flour;
two onions;
sea salt;
two carrots;
a pinch of ground allspice.
Cooking method
1. We wash the liver under the tap, cut off the films and cut into small pieces. We pass the offal through a meat grinder or grind it in a blender.
2. Add eggs to the liver mixture, salt and pepper and, gradually adding flour, knead the dough without coke. Now pour in the milk and shake well with a whisk.
3. Pour a little oil into a heated frying pan. Use a ladle to take some dough and pour it into the pan. Quickly spread it over the bottom and bake the pancake on both sides, two minutes on each side. Cool the finished pancakes.
4. Peel the onion and finely chop it. Coarsely chop peeled and washed carrots. Sauté vegetables in sunflower oil until soft.
5. Place the pancake on a flat dish, grease it with mayonnaise and lay out the fried vegetables. Cover with a second pancake and repeat the procedure. Thus, we collect the entire cake. Decorate it with chopped herbs and leave to soak for an hour.
Recipe 2. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) from chicken liver
Ingredients
chicken liver – 600 g;
salt;
three raw eggs;
parsley;
three boiled eggs for decoration;
two large onions;
garlic - three cloves;
two large carrots;
flour – 80 g;
small boiled carrots;
refined vegetable oil – 50 ml;
mayonnaise – 300 g;
20% sour cream – 100 ml.
Cooking method
1. Wash the chicken liver thoroughly and clean it of gall bladders (if any) and films. Cut the offal into small pieces and place it in a bowl. Add eggs, full-fat sour cream and flour. Grind everything with an immersion blender until smooth. Salt and mix.
2. Heat a little oil in a frying pan. We take a little dough with a ladle, pour it into the frying pan and distribute it over the entire surface, turning from side to side.
3. Fry pancakes over moderate heat. As soon as the pancake begins to pull away from the walls, turn it over with a spatula and continue frying until golden brown.
4. Peel the bulbs and chop them finely. Peel the carrots and grate them on a coarse grater. Fry the vegetables over moderate heat for ten minutes. At the end, pepper and salt. Cool and divide into equal piles according to the number of pancakes.
5. Squeeze the peeled garlic into the mayonnaise and mix.
6. Place the first pancake on a flat plate. Coat it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and distribute the fried vegetables. Cover with a second pancake and assemble the cake, repeating the layers.
7. Separate the yolks from the whites of boiled eggs. We grate them separately and place them in different plates.
8. Grease the top and sides of the liver cake with sauce. Sprinkle the yolk on top and sprinkle the sides with egg white. We make a rose out of boiled carrots and decorate the cake with it. We lay out sprigs of greenery on the sides. Leave the finished cake to soak for several hours.
Recipe 3. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) with melted cheese
Ingredients
vegetable oil;
a glass of milk;
half a glass of flour;
two chicken eggs.
Filling 1
four onions;
vegetable oil;
two carrots.
Filling 2
100 g processed cheese;
a bunch of dill;
garlic - two cloves.
Cooking method
1. We clean the beef liver from veins and films. Cut the offal into pieces and grind through a meat grinder. Beat the eggs into the resulting liver mixture, add salt and shake. Pour in the milk and continue whisking until smooth. Add flour and knead the dough without lumps.
2. Place a frying pan on the fire, pour in vegetable oil and heat it up. Pour in about half a ladle of liver mixture and fry until the pancake begins to pull away from the walls. Then carefully turn it over with a spatula and fry for another three minutes. So fry all the pancakes and cool.
3. Prepare the first filling. We clean and wash the carrots and onions. Pass the carrots through the large holes of the grater. Finely chop the onion. Fry the vegetables until golden brown, transfer to a plate and cool.
4. Prepare the second filling. Finely three cheese. Rinse the greens, dry and chop. Add it to the cheese. Squeeze the peeled garlic here. Add mayonnaise and mix.
5. Place the pancake on a flat plate, grease it with mayonnaise and lay out the vegetable filling, distributing it evenly throughout the pancake. Cover with the second pancake and grease it with cheese filling. We continue to assemble the cake like this, alternating the fillings. Place in the refrigerator to soak, then cut and serve.
Recipe 4. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) with tomatoes and omelette
Ingredients
half a kilogram of chicken liver;
black pepper;
four eggs;
head of white onion;
100 g flour;
150 ml milk;
two tomatoes;
two quail eggs;
black olives.
Cooking method
1. Wash the liver, remove all excess and grind through a meat grinder or in a blender. Add the egg and flour to the resulting mixture, stir until not a single lump remains. Pour in a couple of tablespoons of milk and whisk with a whisk. Season with pepper and salt.
2. Heat a frying pan with a small amount of oil. Spoon the liver mass and spread it evenly over the bottom. Cover with a lid and fry for three minutes. Then carefully turn over and fry for the same amount of time.
3. Beat three eggs with the remaining milk. Shake vigorously with a whisk. Fry thin omelettes from the resulting mixture.
4. Wash the tomatoes, wipe and cut into thin slices.
5. Now assemble the cake in the following sequence: liver pancake, grease with mayonnaise, omelette, also grease with mayonnaise, tomato slices. Repeat layers in this order until you run out of liver pancakes. Decorate the cake as you wish and leave it in the refrigerator to soak for several hours.
Recipe 5. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) in a slow cooker
Ingredients
400 g pork liver;
vegetable oil;
two eggs;
black pepper;
two eggs;
70 g hard cheese;
two onions;
two carrots;
garlic - three cloves.
Cooking method
1. We pass the washed and cleaned liver through a meat grinder. We clean the onion. Finely chop half and add to the liver mixture. We also beat in the eggs, add salt and pepper and, adding flour little by little, beat everything well with a whisk.
2. Pour the resulting liver dough into a greased bowl. We install it in the device, close the lid and start the “baking” program. Cook for 25 minutes. Remove the crust using the steaming basket, turn over and cook for another ten minutes.
3. Finely chop the peeled onion. Peel the carrots and chop them through the large holes of a grater. Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil, adding pepper and salt, until soft.
5. Remove the finished liver cake from the bowl, cool on a wire rack and cut in half lengthwise.
6. Place the bottom crust on a flat plate, coat it with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and evenly distribute half of the vegetable filling. Cover with the second cake layer.
7. Mix the remaining vegetable filling with the sauce and grease the surface of the cake with the resulting mixture. Sprinkle generously with finely grated cheese on top and place in the refrigerator overnight to soak.
Recipe 6. Liver cake (step-by-step recipe) with eggplant
Ingredients
half a glass of milk;
half a kilogram of beef liver;
onion head;
two eggs;
a glass of wheat flour;
baking powder;
30 ml vegetable oil.
150 g soft cheese;
eggplant;
50 g walnuts;
two cloves of garlic;
parsley and cilantro.
Cooking method
1. Twist the prepared liver with the onion through a meat grinder. Add eggs to the resulting mass, pour in milk and vegetable oil, add salt and baking powder. Add flour little by little and knead the dough without lumps, with the consistency of thick sour cream. Prepare thin pancakes from the dough.
2. Bake the eggplant in the oven, put under pressure for half an hour, peel and chop. Pour boiling water over the tomato, remove the skin and finely chop. Finely chop the walnuts. Pass the garlic through a press. Chop the greens. Add mayonnaise to vegetables and stir.
3. Assemble the cake, coating each pancake with filling. Grease the sides with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with finely grated cheese. Leave to soak for half an hour.
Mayonnaise can be replaced with full-fat sour cream.
You can sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with rye cracker crumbs.
Flour can be replaced with bran or starch.
The filling will be tastier if you add fried mushrooms to it.
Liver cake is a universal dish that can be prepared both for a holiday and included in the everyday menu. It includes healthy and wholesome ingredients. Also, it can be made absolutely dietary: cook the cakes in the oven, rather than fry them with butter in a frying pan; replace mayonnaise for greasing the cakes with sour cream; Use vegetables for dressing.
This pie is a hearty dish, so it is suitable even for a full meal. You just need to add a couple of fresh vegetables to it, and you can even do without a side dish.
Classic beef liver cake
To make a delicious beef liver cake, you will need the following ingredients:- 500 grams of beef liver
- 3 medium onions
- 200 grams of milk
- 200 grams of flour
- 2 eggs
- Mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
Preparation progress:
- Take the liver and onions and pass through a meat grinder. Add milk, flour and two eggs. Salt and pepper. If desired, add other spices.
- Bake the cakes in a preheated frying pan with a little oil added to prevent them from sticking. Pancakes need to be cooked on both sides until fully cooked.
- Place the first pancake on a flat plate. Spread mayonnaise on top and add filling to taste. It can be grated cheese, an egg, a vegetable mixture of carrots, onions and mushrooms - choose to your taste. Don’t forget to decorate the top in an original way to surprise your guests.
- When the cake is ready, put it in the refrigerator overnight so that all the cake layers are soaked.
Bon appetit!
Chicken liver cake with sour cream
For those who prefer a chicken liver dish to a classic recipe, this is a simple way to prepare a delicious, hearty dish. All products are accessible and can be easily purchased at any store. The main thing is to find fresh chicken liver, then the taste of the cake will be more aromatic.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken liver
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 onion bulb
- 1 carrot
- 1 clove of garlic
- A couple of sprigs of dill
- 120 grams of sour cream
- 30 grams butter
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Preparation progress:
- Take chicken liver and wash it thoroughly. Using a blender or meat grinder, grind it into minced meat.
- Add eggs, flour, salt and pepper to the meat. Mix everything well until smooth. You can also add different favorite spices to taste to make the dish aromatic.
- Heat a frying pan and pour a little vegetable oil into it. Take a few spoons of minced meat and use a spatula to form thin pancakes. Fry until done on both sides.
- The carrots should be grated on a coarse grater, and the onion should be finely chopped. Saute all this in a frying pan until golden brown.
- You need to add sour cream, herbs, salt and chopped garlic to the frying.
- Place the first prepared liver pancake on the dish. Place the filling on top. Repeat the manipulation until the cakes are finished.
Before serving, place the dish in the refrigerator for several hours. Bon appetit!
Liver cake without milk
This recipe is perfect for those who do not like milk, or for whom it is contraindicated for medical reasons. In fact, the ingredients and preparation process are no different from the classic recipe. Just a few nuances, but more on them below.
Due to the absence of mayonnaise and milk in the recipe, it can be considered a dietary dish that is suitable for those who follow a particular diet.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of liver
- 3 cloves garlic
- 4 eggs
- Half a glass of flour
- 3 onions
- 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 carrots
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
Preparation progress:
- Take onions and carrots, chop finely and fry until golden brown in a frying pan. Popularly this is called sautéing.
- In a separate bowl, mix mayonnaise and garlic pressed using a garlic press. Mix well until smooth.
- Grind the liver with a food processor. Also, you can twist it in a meat grinder - then the minced meat for the cakes will not be so liquid.
- Add eggs, flour, sour cream and spices to the liver. Mix it all.
- Place the minced meat on a heated and oiled frying pan, and use a spoon or spatula to form a thin pancake out of it. Fry on both sides until fully cooked.
- Take a flat plate on which you will later serve the cake. The top of the first cake layer should be greased with mayonnaise sauce and a thin layer of fried onions and carrots should be laid out.
- A similar procedure should be repeated several times, until the cakes run out.
- Coat the top layer with sauce and sprinkle with chopped yolks.
Bon appetit!
Pork liver cake with mushrooms
The dish turns out very juicy, tasty and satisfying if you add mushrooms to the recipe. To make liver cake with mushrooms at home, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kilogram of pork liver
- 4 eggs
- 100 grams of milk
- 60 grams of wheat flour
- 400 grams of champignons
- 2 onions
- 2 carrots
- 2 packs of processed cheese
- 120 grams of mayonnaise
- 5 cloves garlic
- Salt, pepper, spices - to taste
- Sunflower oil for frying
Preparation progress:
- For the first stage you will need a meat grinder. Using it, twist the liver, one onion, add two eggs, flour, milk, salt, pepper and mix. It turned out to be minced meat. It should be mixed thoroughly.
- Heat a frying pan and use a spoon to form thin round pancakes from the resulting minced meat. For a standard size you will need approximately 5 tablespoons. Fry them until fully cooked on both sides.
- The remaining onions should be peeled, finely chopped and fried.
- Rinse the champignons well, cut and fry until tender (the liquid should completely evaporate).
- Combine onions and mushrooms, add carrots cut into strips. All this should be salted, peppered and sautéed until the onions are golden brown.
- Let's make the sauce. Chop finely chopped dill and garlic through a garlic press into mayonnaise. Leave the finished sauce for half an hour so that the aroma of garlic and herbs is distributed evenly.
- Place the first pancake on a flat dish and spread the mushroom filling on top. Cover with the second pancake and spread melted cheese on top. Alternate the fillings, then you will get a very fragrant and beautiful liver cake. Ideally, 2 pancakes with mushroom filling and 1 with cheese spread.
- Spread the top pancake with cheese and mayonnaise, crumble the boiled egg and dill on top.
Advice: after finishing cooking, do not rush to serve your culinary masterpiece. Let it sit in the refrigerator for several hours so that all the cakes are soaked.
Liver pie in a slow cooker
In a slow cooker, almost everything can be cooked quickly and without extra effort. You can also make a delicious and juicy liver cake with aromatic vegetable filling in it.
Ingredients:
- 700 grams of chicken liver
- 5 tablespoons flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 70 ml milk
- 2 onions - for the crust, 5 onions - for the filling
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- 3 carrots
- 200 grams of mayonnaise
- Green onions
Preparation progress:
- The liver in this recipe can be chicken, beef, pork - it doesn’t matter. It must be thoroughly washed and excess fat or films removed.
- Cut the onion in half and pass through a meat grinder together with the liver, stir.
- The next step is to add eggs, flour, milk and baking powder to the minced meat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir well so that there are no flour lumps or homogeneous clots of one ingredient left.
- It's the turn of the multicooker. Its bowl should be greased with oil and the cakes should be baked in the “Baking” mode. After cooking, it is better not to open the lid for about 10 minutes so that the cakes do not sink.
- While the cakes are baking, the filling can be prepared in a frying pan to save time. Finely chop the carrots and onions (the carrots can also be grated on a coarse grater).
- Pass all this until golden brown.
- Assembling the cake: place the first cake layer on a flat dish and spread mayonnaise on top. Next, lay out the vegetable layer. Repeat these manipulations with each cake.
- If you have some mayonnaise left, you can decorate the top layer with it. Place it in a plastic bag and cut off the edge. Squeeze it out with a snake to make something like a chessboard. Place green onions symmetrically in some compartments.
Bon appetit!
Liver cake in the oven
This recipe is perfect for those who do not like fried foods or adhere to a healthy diet.
Ingredients:
- 800 grams of chicken, beef or pork liver
- 2 eggs
- Half a glass of kefir or sour cream
- 2 spoons breadcrumbs
- 100 grams of butter
- 300 grams of mushrooms, classically champignons
- 2 carrots
- 4 onions
- Salt, pepper, spices to taste
The liver cakes in this cake will be tender and not greasy. Your figure will be safe!
Cooking steps:
- Finely chop the onion, fry until golden brown.
- Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, add to the onion and continue sautéing.
- Chop the mushrooms and add to the onions and carrots. Fry until the liquid evaporates. Don't forget to add salt and a little pepper.
- The liver should be passed through a meat grinder and made into minced meat. Types of liver can be mixed, for example, chicken and beef.
- You should add eggs, sour cream or kefir, salt, spices and crackers to the minced meat. Stir.
- Take a baking dish with high edges. Place foil on the bottom.
- Place a thin layer of minced meat, and a layer of frying on top of it. And so alternate. But the last layer should be minced meat.
- Wrap the foil, but do not cover the cake tightly. Heat the oven to 210 degrees, and to prevent our dish from becoming tough, place a tray with water in the oven in addition.
- When the cake is ready, cool it and put it in the refrigerator overnight.
Serve in small pieces along with fresh herbs.
Bon appetit!
Fillings
- Option 1. You can use pickles, dill and parsley as a filling for liver pie. To do this, you need to take two cloves of garlic and grate them on a fine grater. Add mayonnaise and finely chopped herbs to the garlic. Cucumbers need to be cut into strips or grated on a coarse grater. Mix all ingredients and place between cake layers.
- Option 2. Cabbage with onions and mushrooms. Take the champignons, cut them and fry them along with onion, pepper and salt. Don't overdo it with oil for frying because the cake may turn out greasy.
- Option 3. Curd. Take zucchini, carrots, cottage cheese, mayonnaise, onion, salt, pepper and garlic. Mix cottage cheese with mayonnaise and spices and place on the first cake layer. Sauté the onion, zucchini and carrots in a frying pan for a few minutes and place in a second layer.
- Option 4. Korean cheese and carrots. Fry the champignons with onions, add Korean carrots, salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly and add a little mayonnaise and garlic. Real jam!
- Option 5. Tomato filling. Take the garlic and pass it through a garlic press, add mayonnaise. Spread all this on the first cake layer and place thin slices of tomato on top. Spread mayonnaise on the second cake layer, sprinkle with grated hard cheese, add halves of olives and finely chopped herbs.
How to decorate a liver cake
The dish can be decorated in different ways. For example, a simple decoration in the form of mayonnaise and finely chopped herbs, yolk or white crumbs.
Using canned corn, cranberries and parsley leaves, you can create a real garden on the last layer of the cake: the cranberries are the centers of the flowers, the corn is the petals, and the parsley is the leaves and greenery of the flower garden.
Also, using vegetable ingredients, you can lay out entire thematic compositions. Make a snail from carrots, sunflowers from corn, ladybugs from tomatoes, and various greens from lettuce. Also, olives and olives will make funny striped bees. This decor is perfect for decorating a dish for a children's party.
You can make lush roses from thin long slices of boiled carrots or cut them into stars, dripping mayonnaise inside as the center of the flower.
The cake will turn out very bright if you sprinkle it with finely chopped dill or parsley, as well as diced red and yellow bell peppers. This decor is very simple to implement, and the result will greatly delight your family and guests.
Moreover, a flower arrangement can be made from quartered boiled eggs, pickles and olives.
A decoration using a pancake will be very original. Catch olives and thinly sliced carrots in the center, and place olives under the pancake so that its surface goes in even waves. What a sight for sore eyes!
You can also use tomatoes as decoration: both classic and cherry. They can be combined with herbs, and also made into mushrooms. Therefore, the leg will be an egg, and the cap will be half a tomato with mayonnaise dots. Weeding around mushrooms is easy to do using finely chopped herbs.
If you leave one cake layer, you can use it to make an original decor. Cut the cake into thin long strips and arrange it in a checkerboard pattern. You can put vegetables inside the cells, or simply decorate with mayonnaise.
- The liver must be fresh for cooking, as it is the main and main ingredient of the dish.
- If you want to turn your dish into a delicacy, use goose or turkey liver.
- If the pie turns out a bit harsh, pour boiling water over the liver the next time you cook it; if bitterness remains, soak in milk.
- If you notice streaks or a film on the liver, they must be removed. Since it is in these parts that harmful substances and toxins accumulate in the animal.
- Liver is a high-calorie and filling product, so for the cake, choose low-calorie mayonnaise or replace it with sour cream.
- If you have high cholesterol, this dish is unfortunately contraindicated for you.
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For healthy functioning, the human body needs to consume a lot of microelements and vitamins every day. But with the modern rhythm of life, not everyone is able to follow a healthy diet. Many people believe that healthy eating is a must, but this is a misconception. Even the healthiest dishes can be incredibly delicious. One of these delicacies will be discussed in the article - a classic recipe for liver cake.
What are the benefits of the liver?
Not everyone likes to eat liver, since its taste, to put it mildly, is specific. If you prepare it incorrectly, you will end up with a completely incomprehensible mass. But you need to eat the product regularly, since the benefits from it are enormous.
It is enough to eat only 100 g to get a daily dose of vitamins and minerals: A, C, B, E, K, PP and D, iron, copper, zinc and chromium, and in an easily digestible form. In addition, the liver contains potassium, which removes excess fluid from the body. Its deficiency can cause swelling. Another consequence of a lack of this substance is cramps in the calves, weakness and increased fatigue.
Many doctors advise people with iron deficiency anemia to eat liver more often. It contains a special trace element of iron, which is responsible for the production of hemoglobin.
Which one to choose
You can usually find three types of liver on sale:
- chicken;
- beef;
- pork.
Each is useful in its own way. The most dietary, which is most often prescribed to both children and adults, especially pregnant women, is beef. It contains a huge amount of useful substances that are easily absorbed by the body.
Chicken and pork are also good for the human body, but it is better not to consume the former if you have high cholesterol levels, and the latter has a specific taste that not everyone likes.
To make a classic cake you will need beef liver.
Ingredients
It is worth noting that the grams of products presented below are designed for small volumes. Therefore, if you want to make a large homemade liver cake, you need to increase the quantity of each ingredient accordingly.
- 500 g liver;
- 3 medium sized onions;
- 1/2 cup milk;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- flour.
For filling:
- carrot;
- mushrooms;
- salt, pepper and mayonnaise (to taste).
When it comes to choice, many people have questions about whether one of the components can be replaced. This happens due to intolerance to a certain product or personal dislike for it. So, cow's milk can be replaced with any other, chicken eggs - with quail, beef liver - with chicken or pork.
The filling can also be absolutely anything: regular grated cheese, vegetables, chopped boiled eggs, etc. The classic recipe for liver cake implies that between the pancakes there will be carrots, overcooked with onions and mushrooms. Other options are also good, so prepare what you have enough imagination for.
Preparation
Now let's move on to the step by step recipe for beef liver cake. During the cooking process, you can use any convenient equipment: a blender, a food processor or a regular meat grinder.
- Grind the liver to a homogeneous paste. Chop the onion to the same consistency and add it to the main ingredient. Beat in the eggs, pour in the milk and add a little flour. Mix. The dough should be viscous, but not too thick, otherwise the pancakes will look more like pancakes and you won’t be able to form a cake.
- Let's start preparing the meat "cakes". The mass must be fried on both sides until cooked. You can turn it over when the edge turns a little golden.
- Place the first pancake on a flat dish. Lubricate evenly with mayonnaise and lay out the selected filling. Then fry the second “crust”, place it on top, and also add mayonnaise and filling. Continue until all ingredients are gone. The height and diameter will depend on the amount of food and the size of the pan.
The finished liver cake according to the classic recipe should be placed in the refrigerator so that all layers are thoroughly soaked and it cools down. Before serving, it can be decorated with fresh herbs, boiled yolk or grated cheese. Liver cake with carrots and onions goes well with fresh vegetables.
To make it easier to prepare such a tasty and healthy dish, below are tips for housewives.
- When choosing liver, it is impossible to determine its taste. It is important to pay attention to the expiration date. But even a fresh product can be bitter (and should be sweet). To get rid of bitterness, you need to soak beef liver for liver cake (step-by-step recipe above) in milk for several hours.
- Before cooking, the main product must be carefully examined for the presence of veins, films and bile ducts and removed. If this is not done, the pancakes will not be as tender, and the benefits will be much less.
- To make the hard liver softer, you need to pour boiling water over it. Then it will acquire the desired loose consistency, and the cake will be well soaked.
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The dish can be served with any side dish. It does not incur any special financial costs, and all the ingredients are easily available. You can make this appetizer with beef, pork, or chicken liver. For a delicious 5-layer liver cake we will need the following...
INGREDIENTS
- 0.5 kg. beef liver (you can combine, for example, 300 g of beef + 200 g of chicken liver, then the pancakes will turn out more tender);
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 100 ml. milk;
- 3 heaped tablespoons of flour;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
For the savory filling:
- 4 medium sized carrots;
- 3 onions;
- vegetable oil;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- a pack of mayonnaise (200-250 g);
- salt and pepper also to taste.
COOKING
- We prepare the liver for heat treatment: we clean it of veins, remove pieces of fat, and rinse thoroughly under running water to remove any remaining bile.
- Next, cut into pieces measuring approximately 3 by 3 cm.
- Grind the pieces in a way accessible to you (in a meat grinder or blender).
- Add milk to the resulting homogeneous mass and mix.
- Beat in the eggs, add them to the mixture, add flour and spices a spoonful at a time.
- Mix thoroughly again or beat with a blender. The dough should be slightly thick and flow smoothly across the pan. If you add extra flour, add a little more milk.
- Next, heat the frying pan. Pour the dough into a ladle and spread it evenly over the pan. Cook over medium heat until golden brown and then turn over.
- On the second side, fry the pancake in 2 times less time than on the first side to avoid drying it out. The time depends on the thickness of the layer and the quality of the pan. If you use a Teflon frying pan, then less oil will be needed for frying, and therefore fewer calories. This is suitable for those who are on a diet.
- Place the finished pancake on a plate.
- Preparing the filling. Cut the onions;
- Three carrots on a coarse grater;
- Heat the frying pan, pour the onion into it, fry it lightly, then add the carrots.
- Fry until fully cooked.
- In a separate plate, mix mayonnaise with pre-squeezed garlic. You can add the amount of garlic as you wish. If you like spicier dishes, add a couple more cloves. If not, then reduce the amount.
- Let's start assembling the cake and decorating it. Place the crust on a plate, put a mayonnaise-garlic spread on it, then a layer of carrots and onions. We repeat this operation five times.
- Sprinkle the top layer with grated eggs, the cake will get a nice white color.
- Place tomato halves on top for beauty and juiciness.
- Decorate the side edges with parsley or other herbs. That's all..., put the most delicious liver cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours and serve.
PS. Liver goes well with any vegetables; if you don’t like carrots, you can use champignon mushrooms instead. For the same amount of dough you will need about 200-250 grams of mushrooms. You need to first fry them until half cooked, and only then add the onion. The rest of the cooking scheme remains unchanged. If you just want a tasty meal in the evening, but don’t have a tomato on hand, don’t despair. Just decorate the cake with fresh herbs, which go well with minced liver. If you wish, you can cut flowers from various types of vegetables for decoration, such as carrots and sweet peppers. Then the dish will be very original and look beautiful not only on the everyday table, but also on the festive table. This dish is perfect for absolutely any occasion. Your family will be delighted.
Bon appetit!
