How To Cook Chicken Hearts

2023 Author: Lucy Dunce | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:49

How to cook chicken hearts

The motto of many housewives is increasingly becoming “Fast, healthy and tasty”. How to feed a family with healthy foods without spending a lot of time, effort and money will help advice on how to cook chicken hearts correctly. The first step is to pay attention to the appearance of chicken hearts, they should be whole, not particularly flattened and shiny. Of course, it is preferable to purchase chilled chicken hearts, and if they are frozen, try to choose a product without a thick layer of ice. Defrosting chicken hearts, like other offal, is best in the refrigerator, after removing it from the freezer.

Pre-processing of chicken hearts will take only a couple of minutes, it is enough to rinse them thoroughly under running water and cut off the fat with a sharp knife. The product is ready to cook. Let's start with the simplest and healthiest dish.

Stewed chicken hearts

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts - 0.5 kg.

• Bulb onions - 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, spices to taste.

Prepare chicken hearts, finely chop the onion and fry in a well-heated frying pan for a couple of minutes, add the hearts, fry for two or three minutes, add water to completely cover the food, cover and reduce the heat. Simmer for 20-25 minutes, season with salt, add spices (such as dried garlic, curry and paprika) and cook for another five minutes. To speed up the process, the hearts can be cut before cooking - lengthwise into halves or quarters, or across in circles. Then the cooking time will be 15 minutes.

Serve with boiled rice, mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

Chicken hearts with sour cream

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts - 0.7 kg.

• Sour cream - 250 gr.
• Bulb onions - 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt, spices to taste.

Chop the onion, dry lightly in oil, add chicken hearts, cook for five minutes. Salt the dish, season, add sour cream and stir thoroughly. Reduce heat, cover and cook for 20-25 minutes, until the hearts are soft and juicy enough. Serve with boiled potatoes or pasta, always with the resulting sauce.

Chicken hearts with mushrooms

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts - 0.5 kg.

• Fresh champignons - 0.5 kg.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
• Cream - 200 gr.
• Wheat flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, spices to taste.

Rinse the hearts, remove the fat, rinse the mushrooms thoroughly and cut into plates, chop the onion into thin half rings. Heat oil in a frying pan, fry the onion for a minute, send mushrooms to it, after two minutes - chicken hearts. While stirring, cook over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Sift flour onto a dish, stir vigorously and gradually add cream, stirring occasionally, so that no lumps form. Season with salt and season, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Chicken hearts in batter

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts - 0.7 kg.

• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Wheat flour - 3 tbsp. l.
• Sunflower oil for frying
• Salt, spices to taste.

From eggs, salt and flour, prepare a liquid batter, previously washed and peeled from fat, dip chicken hearts in the batter and fry in heated vegetable oil until golden brown. If the hearts are large, cut them lengthwise into halves and fry. In order to serve the dish as a beer snack, sprinkle the prepared hearts on top with ground chili.

Chicken heart shashlik

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts - 1 kg.

• Pepper mixture - 4 gr.
• Sherry - 50 ml.
• Peanut butter - 50 ml.
• Soy sauce - 100 ml.

Wash and dry the hearts. For the marinade, mix the soy sauce, dry sherry wine, season with the pepper mixture. Place hearts in a saucepan, pour with sauce and close a lid, shake well. Refrigerate for 4 hours. Shake the hearts from time to time.

Soak wooden skewers in cold water. Remove the hearts from the marinade, string them on skewers. Pat dry on a paper towel.

Fry in peanut butter in a hot skillet under the lid for 7-10 minutes, turning occasionally until tender. Serve with herbs or salad.

In fact, how else to cook chicken hearts can be told for a long time. Any options for dishes from vegetables and hearts, baked in pots roast chicken hearts and potatoes, filling for pies, pancakes, pies and terrines, soups and hodgepodge - chicken offal do an excellent job with many types of dishes.

You can find interesting recipes in our "Recipes" section.

Author: Victoria N. (specially for Calorizator.ru)

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