Stroganoff liver classic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. Take the liver fresh, bright pink, without visible damage. It can be pork liver, beef liver or liver of any bird. I use chicken liver. Sour cream of any percentage of fat content, you can replace it with heavy cream or mayonnaise, a hundred less desirable. Instead of tomato paste, in its absence, it is completely replaced with ketchup.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the onion. To make the onion easy to clean, soak it in cold water for half an hour before cooking - you can easily clean it. Cut the onion into cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat 1 tbsp in a frying pan.a spoonful of vegetable oil. Since we are going to fry in oil, it must necessarily be refined so as not to burn in a frying pan. According to the maslenitsa product, it can be anything: from sunflower to olive. Add the chopped onion, fry for about 5-7 minutes until the onion is golden brown.

4. Step 4:

   

   Reduce the heat, pour flour into the pan.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add tomato paste.

6. Step 6:

   

   Mix sour cream and everything intensively so that there are no lumps. The sauce will thicken quickly, so it makes sense to add a little water and bring it to the consistency of thick sour cream.

7. Step 7:

   

   Salt the sauce. You can pepper it or add some other seasonings. But according to the classic recipe, there are no seasonings in the dish.

9. Step 8:

   

   Stir the sauce and remove from the heat.

10. Step 9:

    

    Rinse the liver very well, remove the films and bile ducts, if any. To reduce the bitterness, you can soak the liver in milk before cooking for 1-2 hours. Cut the liver into small pieces.

11. Step 10:

    

    In another frying pan, heat the remaining oil, add the liver and fry over medium heat, turning the pieces over, until the liver is ready. The usual cooking time of the liver is about 10-15 minutes, but do not over-dry it.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add the previously prepared sauce to the finished liver.

13. Step 12:

    

    Mix the liver with the sauce and serve. The pieces are tender and juicy, in a spicy sauce. This dish can be served without a side dish.

14. Step 13:

    

    Bon appetit!