Cooking livers and??

Minky2Slice

Hi there,

Does anyone have any ideas how to serve liver?
I normally fry them it a pan, but what do you serve with them? fries, green salad, mash potatoes?

My Mother use to let the pieces of liver soak in a bowl of milk for a while before frying, any idea what the purpose of this is or how long they need to be soaked for??

Thanks

arkonite_babe

Soaking the liver in milk I think removes any bitter tastes. But I may be wrong, I'm sure someone will corrcet me on this.

In the meantime some previous threads on liver for you:

Liver recipe needed

Liver recipes for low iron count

Liver and Bacon

Bossyboots

I think the idea of soaking in milk might have been to make the liver more tender but I never do it.

I mix herbs into flour and coat the liver with that. I then fry it with bacon.

My favourite meal is then to serve it with mashed potato and cabbage.



Edit: Found this http://www.10500bc.org/recipes/recipe_24.html and this http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=ingredients.ingredientitem&iID=503725

moggins

I do sweet and sour liver and onions. 1lb liver, 2 medium onions, 1 can chopped tomatoes, 1 tablespoon demerara sugar, 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar.

Soften the onions in a little oil, brown the liver add all the ingredients and simmer on a low heat for about 20 minutes.

Serve with boiled rice.

jobbingmusician

There's something in liver which REALLY agrees with me - I always feel good after a meal!

I fry onions, then add chopped up liver and possibly a few mushrooms and some vegetable boullion. On a good day I might chuck in a half glass of red wine

Serve with mashed potatoes and cauliflower or brocolli :T

Curry_Queen

I posted a recipe the other day for a liver with onion sauce dish I made recently. It should be fairly near the end of the thread

Aril

There's a recipe of mine on the Recipe Thread called Liver with Herbs which uses red wine and is the only way OH will eat it [still turns up his little snout mind!] other than as pate
Aril

Enrico_VII

Slice the liver about 5-8mm thick and coat in cornflour.

Then quickly stir fry it leaving it pink and slightly bloody in the middle (so better make it lamb or ox liver, cook longer if pork).

Serve with a baked potato and mushy peas.

Meal for four for a couple of quid.

Enrico

hilstep2000

I've always loved liver, even as a child! I have it dry fryed (as above) with bacon, jacket pots, onion rings and peas, yum!
If I want to get my kids to eat it, I was it, slice thinly, put in a casserole dish, pour over a jar of pasta sauce, and put in the oven to cook slowly. The liver breaks down and looks like mince, serve over spaghetti and they think it's bolognese!! LOL!

ladygrey_2

liver, bacon, onions and mash
luvverly

Icemaiden

Were having Liver, onions & bacon for Dinner tonight. I just bung it all in the slow cooker with water & a bit of gravy granules. The gravy is wonderful, really thick and the liver sooo tender. Serve with mash & sprouts.