Chicken liver in sour cream with onions, fried in a frying pan

Tender chicken liver in a thick, rich sauce. Fried chicken liver with onions in sour cream in a frying pan is a quick and easy recipe for a very tasty soft liver, which even a novice housewife will get. Cooked according to this recipe, the liver will never be dry and hard. Mashed potatoes, rice, buckwheat and pasta are great for garnish, there will be a lot of sauce. You can also add mushrooms when frying, they will make great friends with the taste of the liver.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 41 % 11 g
Fats 44 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 15 % 4 g
166 kcal
GI: 75 / 0 / 25

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare and measure the products. It is better to take the liver chilled, it will turn out softer and tastier. If you have a frozen product, completely defrost it. Then the liver should be rinsed and allowed to drain in a colander.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the onion and cut it into half rings. You can cut it into cubes, it's a matter of taste here.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Heat the frying pan, pour vegetable oil and put the onion. Lightly fry it over medium heat until transparent, stirring all the time.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Turn down the heat, cover the pan with a lid and leave the onion to languish for about five minutes. The onion should not burn, otherwise it will spoil the whole dish.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Meanwhile, the liver should be cut, removing the films and fat. I cut it with plates, like beef stroganoff.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    We put the liver in the frying pan to the onion.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Add fire and start stirring intensively so that it is fried from all sides. So we sort of seal the juice inside, it makes the liver soft and juicy. Salt and pepper. I usually don't add other seasonings anymore, we like the pure taste of the liver. We continue to fry. The color will gradually change from pink to grayish-brown.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Next, reduce the heat to a minimum and cover the pan with a lid. we leave the liver to stew for a maximum of ten minutes, the fried liver becomes hard and not tasty for a long time. Focus on the size of the pieces. The finished liver on the cut has a uniform color and the juice is transparent.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    While the liver is being fried, we prepare the sauce. Add flour to the sour cream and stir until smooth.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Add sour cream to the liver in the pan, mix well. The warmed sauce begins to thicken, at this time you can add water, diluting the sauce to the desired consistency. We try for salt, add salt if necessary. We leave the liver to stew in the sauce for a couple of minutes, otherwise the sour cream may curdle. Done!

Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Pepper - 26   kcal/100g
  • Chicken liver - 140   kcal/100g

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