Lamb's kidneys - bought without thinking

bertietheblue

I'm making a bid to eat more offal for variety and because it's often quite cheap. Anyway, I made an impulse buy yesterday of 4 lamb's kidneys :eek:. I also bought some single cream because I had a vague idea that the two would go well together. Anybody got a simple recipe that combines these two?

I've never cooked kidneys before!

Much appreciated
Bertie, the Cooking Idiot

daska

my nan used to include kidneys in pretty much every dish she cooked, as a result I can't stand the things but... why not ignore the fact that they're kidneys and think in terms of meat dishes that use cream sauces such as stroganoff?

Butterfly_Brain

Add some steak for a nice steak and kidney pie or add sausages for a stew

thriftlady_2

This is my favourite way with kidneys Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall has a recipe for kidneys with lentils (not the red kind), wine, cream and chillies which is yummy.

bertietheblue

Thanks Thriftlady - that's the one for me! Though what's this about coring kidneys? Something horrrible and nasty at the centre?

thriftlady_2

bertietheblue wrote: »

Thanks Thriftlady - that's the one for me! Though what's this about coring kidneys? Something horrrible and nasty at the centre?

It's just the white veins. They're very obvious and you snip them out with scissors and don't worry if you don't get all the little bits out, they won't be noticed. Slice them in two vertically first;)

spendingmad

This sounds yummy and cheap! May is going to be a tight month so may give this a try.

One question - neither of us like mushrooms can you think of a good substitute to bulk it out abit?

bertietheblue

New potatoes, spendingmad? I think they should cook in the 25 minutes (according to the recipe) you have for simmering

PS: thriftlady, have managed to core the kidneys - bleh!

Ianna

This recipe looks cheap, quick and uses both your ingredients! You could also add the kidneys to a lancashire hotpot like [url=]here[/url]. I'm wondering if you could have it [url=]with bacon like you eat liver?[/url]

Stephen_Leak

This recipe is a combination of cookery and keyhole surgery. If you are cooking this for someone else, don’t tell them what’s in the potato and call it "Baked Potato Surprise".

BAKED POTATO & KIDNEY

Serves 1

INGREDIENTS

1 baking potato
1 lamb’s kidney
1 rasher of bacon
Butter
Ground pepper to taste.

METHOD

Prepare and start to bake the potato as you usually do.

Whilst the potato is cooking, remove all the tubes from the middle of the kidney (see below). Wrap it in the rasher of bacon.

About 20 to 30 minutes before the potato should be ready, remove it from the oven.

Make a star-shaped cut in the top of the potato, and open out the flaps. Dig a kidney-sized hole in the potato with a teaspoon. Put a little bit of butter in the bottom of the hole. Push in the bacon wrapped kidney. Season with the pepper. Bury the kidney with as much of the dug out potato as you can. Close the flaps.

Put the potato back in the oven and cook for a further 20 to 30 minutes until the kidney is cooked through.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

Add a little bit of English mustard. Add a little bit of parsley.

TIPS

Remove the kidney’s tubes (called the core) with a pair of sharp scissors.

Seakay

The potato suprise sounds fantastic - do you think that it would work in a microwave as I'll be cooking for one and it never seems worth switching the oven on just for me.