Chicken hearts can be stewed, fried, boiled and baked in the oven, they are added to salads and roasts. Another cooking option is with rice. This is an economical, healthy and very tasty dish, and it will take no more than 30 minutes for this.
For this dish, it is better to buy chilled hearts, this will save cooking time and preserve all the useful properties of the offal. If there is only a frozen version in the store, you can buy it, but defrost it well before frying. Rice should be parboiled and long grain.
- 800 g of chicken hearts;
- 2 cups rice
- 4 glasses of hot water;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 2 whispers of saffron;
- some vegetable oil;
- 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
First you need to prepare the chicken hearts: defrost and rinse well, then put on a hot skillet with vegetable oil and lightly fry. Peel and grate the carrots, and finely chop the onion. Once the hearts are browned, add the vegetables and cook for another 3-4 minutes.
At this time, you need to rinse the rice and let the water drain, pour it into the pan to the rest of the products, sprinkle with saffron, fry so that the rice acquires a golden color. After that, it can be poured with water, salt and pepper. And then cook over high heat for 3 minutes to make the dish crumbly. Then simmer the dish over low heat until tender.
You can use turmeric instead of saffron to give your rice a golden hue. This will not change the taste of the dish. By the way, you can experiment with this dish: add tomatoes, green beans along with onions and carrots, and sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving.
