Liver - what is it, what is its use, how to cook it?

For many people, the word "liver" does not seem strange and unusual a long time ago. What is "liver sausage", everyone knows. But I wonder where this name came from? The word it came to our speech from the Latin (from the liver) and literally means "liver". It is interesting that in medicine it is often not used to denote the diseases and conditions of this organ, although most of the terms originate from ancient Latin words. But in the case of the liver, physicians around the world use the Greek triplet hepar and its derivatives (eg, "hepatitis", "heparin"). And the "liver" habitual to our ears is most often used in cooking.

Liver - what is it and what does it eat?

Professional chefs often use the definition of "offal". And simple housewives in the old manner say "liver". Both of them mean not only the liver, but also other internal organs of animals: kidneys, heart, lungs.

Favorite recipes

In Russia, from time immemorial, sausage, brawn, saltison was prepared. The cleared intestine or an indented stomach was stuffed with meat or entrails, then boiled, fried, smoked in smoke, baked in the oven. Today such anciently favorite products are produced on an industrial scale.

Sausage

A sausage made from liver is traditionally called "liver". Although it often includes other products. There are a lot of recipes for this dish. Here is one of them:

• Liver and other offal - 500 g;
• Lard fresh pork - 300 g;
• Semolina - 3/4 cup;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Salt and spices to taste.

Liver and bacon are cut into cubes, thoroughly mixed, add mango and egg, salt-pepper. Let's stand for 20 minutes to make the manke "bloom". With the help of a culinary film, we form sausages. You can use cellophane bags, only the shape of the finished product will not be sausage. Boil the liver sausages in boiling water for about an hour. Let's cool down, and only after that we take off the film.

Liverfish

And who has not heard such names as "pies with a liver", "pancakes with a liver"? By-products are an excellent filling for the most varied pastries and vareniki. In order to save or for a change to them, you can add mashed potatoes or boiled rice, fried or green onions, mushrooms. To make minced meat, boil offal (necessarily separately), we pass through a meat grinder. It is convenient to store such a blank in a refrigerator in glass jars, filling the top with melted smoltsem.

The special popularity of these dishes is due to the fact that not so expensive is the liver. The recipe for pasta in the Navy, pies, vareniki will be much more budgetary if the meat in it is replaced by offal. And the taste of it will not suffer at all.

Benefit for health

Speaking about dishes from by-products, we can not fail to mention the health benefits of liver. What is low hemoglobin, many residents of modern cities know. But if you regularly eat iron and micronutrients rich in beef or pork liver, the problem can be solved without medicines at all!

And these products have a positive effect on the organs of hematopoiesis, the circulatory system, the work of the heart.

This useful product can also be introduced into the children's diet. Especially the kids so eager to open the world. And they are sure to be interested not only in the taste of the product, but also in the word "liver," what it means. But what do you say to a curious child, you already know.