How to prepare liver for cooking

Like to your liver, it is very important to remove all its external covering film. If you do not remove them, the liver will work very hard. Frozen liver the film is removed quite easily. Put it in a bowl of hot water for a few minutes to top film a little thawed. Then pry it with a knife and remove the liver.

If the product has not undergone freezing, before processing it is necessary to prepare: rinse the pre-washed piece of liver with boiling water, and then for 2-3 minutes dip in cold water. Using this simple procedure to remove the thin film of the liver will be much easier. Just incise film with a sharp knife and gently separate it with your fingers.

After treatment, thoroughly flush the liver until it will not cease to stand out blood. Then it can be soaked in milk. Make it optional, but soaking will give the dish a more pleasant aroma and delicate flavor. Since liver contains bile ducts, it can taste bitter. Milk washes away the sediment of bile, eliminating the bitterness. Soak the liver in milk should be at least 30 minutes, and ideally the exposure time should be 2 hours.

Select how you will fry the liver in small pieces or portions. In the first case, the piece of liver must be cut into broad, flat slices with a width of about 1 cm. this should remove all veins, bile ducts, and fat. Sliced, put between two layers of cling film and lightly beat off, as in the preparation of the steak. To make it more convenient to just using the back side of a spoon. Use for pounding, a special hammer is not necessary, as the liver has a loose structure and does not require a strong mechanical processing. If you chop the liver into small pieces, to beat them is not necessary, just cut into wedges 1 cm thick, as well as in the first embodiment, thus removing cutting all unnecessary.

Cut pieces of the liver can again a bit to soak it in milk. Then sprinkle them with seasonings or breading, depending on what recipe you will cook the dish. Salting raw liver can not be otherwise when frying, it will become hard. For breading, you can use flour mixed with pepper and other seasonings to taste, or a special mixture of rice crackers. The breading when frying is used for the dish was more succulent, but the liver can be cooked without it.