Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to cook beef brains fried in Italian? First, prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking. Rinse and dry the greens. Wash the lemon thoroughly with a soft brush under hot water.
Step 2:
Peel the beef brains from the film and put them in a bowl. Fill with cold water, pour in white wine vinegar and leave for 30 minutes. During this time, blood will come out of them, and they will thicken a little.
Step 3:
Pour vegetable oil into another bowl and add chopped garlic.
Step 4:
Add ground coriander, paprika, salt and ground black pepper to the oil. For this recipe, not only black pepper is suitable, but you can take a white or green kind. If you don't like coriander or paprika, you can give them up altogether. You can also add thyme or rosemary.
Step 5:
Pour dry herbs into a bowl. I have a collection of dill, parsley and celery. You can also add thyme, mint or rosemary.
Step 6:
Grate the zest from the lemon and add the herbs and spices to the bowl with oil. The main thing is to clean off only the yellow part, since the white part will give an unpleasant bitterness. Mix everything well.
Step 7:
Remove the brain from the water, dry it with a paper towel and cut it into pieces, about the size of a walnut. Put the pieces of brain in a bowl with marinade.
Step 8:
Mix everything carefully, cover and put away in the cold for 24 hours.
Step 9:
In a bowl, break the egg, which you have previously washed, and mix with a fork. Transfer the brains from the marinade to the egg and mix gently.
Step 10:
Put the pieces of the brain into breadcrumbs and roll them completely in them. Take the crackers finely ground, then the crust will turn out crispy and not rough. And it's even better to cook them yourself from a loaf or white bread.
Step 11:
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat over medium heat. It is easy to check the readiness of the oil by dropping dry spaghetti into it. If bubbles form on its surface, the oil is ready. Dip the prepared pieces of brain into it and fry on both sides for 2-3 minutes over medium heat.
Step 12:
Transfer the finished brain to paper napkins to remove excess oil.
Step 13:
Bon appetit.
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.
You can check whether the oil has warmed up well enough in the pan in a simple way. Lower a wooden spatula into it. If bubbles have gathered around it, then you can start the frying process.
Calorie content of the products possible in the dish
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Paprika - 289 kcal/100g
- White wine vinegar - 14 kcal/100g
- Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41 kcal/100g
- Greenery - 41 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Ground coriander - 25 kcal/100g
- Breadcrumbs - 347 kcal/100g
- Beef brains - 124 kcal/100g
