Liver cake is both a snack dish and a salad at the same time. It consists of cakes, coated with filling and baked in the oven or in a pan. There are many variations of beef liver liver cake with onions, mushrooms, pickled cucumbers and herbs, with cream, sour cream and even adjika.
Classic Beef Liver Liver Cake Recipe
You will need:
- 1 kg of beef liver;
- 200 g cream;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter in the dough;
- 1 onion;
- 150 g of milk.
- For filling:
- 300 g homemade mayonnaise;
- 3 carrots and 3 onions;
- dill and garlic to taste;
- oil for stewing vegetables.
Step by step cooking process
Peel the onion. Peel the liver from films, cut into pieces and chop together with 1 onion in a blender or meat grinder. Beat fresh eggs into the crushed mass, salt, pour in milk and cream. Sift the wheat flour and add gradually to the liver dough, stirring constantly. Knead until you get a viscous, homogeneous dough.
Preheat a skillet and fry thin liver pancakes in hot oil, one at a time. Place them on a flat plate and leave to cool. During this time, chop the rest of the onion and grate the carrots. Put them in the oil heated in a skillet. Simmer vegetables until soft for 4-5 minutes.
Squeeze the garlic through a press, chop fresh dill and mix everything with homemade mayonnaise. Start assembling the beef liver cake. Place the first liver pancake on a serving plate and brush with mayonnaise dressing.
Place the fried vegetables on top. Repeat the procedure until all baked pancakes are finished. Finish by spreading the sauce over the dish and letting soak in the refrigerator for three hours. Serve chilled.
If you would like to muffle the taste of the vegetable filling, stew them for about half an hour in any dressing: sour cream or tomato. You can also add celery stalks to them, and replace the dill with other herbs to taste.
A quick recipe for beef liver liver cake in the oven
If you don't have much time to cook, you can bake one large liver layer in the oven and then cut it into several pieces.
You will need:
- 1 kg of beef liver;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour;
- 4 eggs;
- 250 g sour cream;
- salt and spices to taste;
- 200 g of mayonnaise with garlic;
- 2 carrots;
- 2 onions;
- butter in the dough and on a baking sheet;
- oil and salt for frying.
Cooking process step by step
Wash and strip the liver, put it in the container of the combine and chop it. In the process, add all the eggs, sour cream, sifted flour there. After obtaining a homogeneous consistency, add spices: salt and any seasonings. Knead the dough with a spatula.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment, lightly grease it with oil. Spread the liver dough over the entire surface and smooth. Bake the crust in a hot oven at 180 ° C for 12-13 minutes. Cool the finished rectangular pancake. Grind the washed and peeled onions and carrots into vegetable chips. Fry quickly in a skillet until soft.
Cut the baked liver crust into six rectangles. Spread them one at a time on a serving platter, anoint them with mayonnaise and garlic and shift them over with vegetable frying. Ready beef liver liver cake should be infused, put it in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
Beef liver liver cake with mushrooms: a recipe for a festive table
You will need:
- 1 kg of liver;
- 250 g champignons;
- 2 onions;
- 1 carrot;
- 200 g mayonnaise;
- 1 glass of sour cream;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- 4 eggs;
- butter in dough;
- oil for frying vegetables and mushrooms;
- salt and herbs to taste.
Cooking process in stages
Knead a viscous dough from chopped liver, sour cream, 1 onion, 4 eggs, sifted flour, salt, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. In this case, it is necessary to achieve a homogeneous mass, therefore, it is better to mix with a blender.
Peel the second onion, carrots and mushrooms. Rinse and chop into cubes, grate carrots. In the first skillet, make pancakes from the liver dough. In a second skillet, fry the onions, mushrooms and carrots in a spoonful of vegetable oil.
Wait for all the pancakes to cool. Chop any greens and mix it with mayonnaise, whisk the mass a little until fluffy. Fold the beef liver cake on a flat platter. Spread the first pancake, cover it with the mayonnaise dressing and place the mushroom frying on top. Repeat layers until you run out of pancakes.
To make the liver cake beautiful, at the end of the assembly, coat its surface with the remaining mayonnaise. Put the dish in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Serve chilled.
Beef liver liver cake with pickled cucumbers
The liver cake stuffed with spicy canned cucumbers has a rather bright and interesting taste. For a spicier snack, use canned cucumbers in chili sauce.
You will need:
- 1 kg of liver;
- 10 pickled cucumbers;
- 40 grams of flour;
- 200 grams of mayonnaise;
- 250 grams of sour cream;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 3 onions;
- 2 carrots;
- vegetable oil;
- a bunch of greens;
- salt in the dough and pepper in the filling to taste.
For pickling:
- 1/2 tsp vinegar;
- 1 tsp Sahara;
- a pinch of salt.
Step-by-step cooking process
Peel the onion, chop 2 onions finely. Peel the carrots and grate the Korean carrot grater into strips. Put both vegetables in a bowl, cover with vinegar, salt and sugar marinade. Leave the vegetables to marinate for half an hour.
Cut the washed liver without films and streaks into pieces and chop with a blender together with the last onion until puree. Beat eggs to them and add all the sour cream. Stir and pour in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, add sifted flour, salt and pepper the mass.
Knead a very thick, homogeneous dough and bake liver pancakes from it. Place them in a pile and set aside to cool. Drain the onion and carrot marinade. Cut the canned cucumbers into small cubes. Mix vegetables.
Pour mayonnaise and chopped herbs into a cup of pickled foods, stir in the savory dressing. Place the first cooled pancake on a platter, brush it with a thin layer of dressing.
Lay out all the pancakes in the same way, at the end lightly press down the liver cake on top. Spread the remaining mayonnaise on all sides of the cake and refrigerate. Serve at least three hours later.
Beef liver liver cake with adjika at home
You will need:
- 1 kg of beef liver;
- 200 g adjika;
- 200 g homemade mayonnaise;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 1 onion;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- dried dill;
- salt;
- vegetable oil in the dough and for frying pancakes.
Step by step cooking
Peel, wash and chop the beef liver, chop it along with the peeled onions in a blender. Add eggs and sour cream to the resulting mass, mix and add salt and dried dill.
Pour in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and add the sifted flour. Substitute for thick liver dough. Grease a pancake skillet with a little oil and fry the thin cakes one by one on both sides. Leave them to cool completely.
Mix the adjika snack with homemade mayonnaise in a separate cup, use a whisk to achieve a uniform consistency of the dressing. Place the pancake after the pancake on a serving dish and brush the surface of each with a spicy spicy sauce with adjika.
The finished beef liver cake should be infused for at least 3 hours in the refrigerator. Serve it in portions. For the recipe, it is advisable to use a fairly spicy, adjika snack, which is better to cook on your own.
