Croatian Simple Chicken Liver Meal Recipes

CROATIAN CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Put cold water in a pot (appropriate large pot). If you want better soup put chicken in cold water, if you want better chicken meat put it in hot water.
• Rind carrots, onion, parsley, celery and put all other ingredients into water. Boil and after it boils reduce heat and cook for 3 to 4 hours.
• Filter the soup into separate pot.
• If you want, put into strained soup carrots, chicken meat (or liver, stomach, or hearts) and add noodles or whatever you like in soup and serve.

MIRJ'S HEART-ATTACK-ON-A-PLATE CHOPPED CHICKEN LIVER

Steps:

• Cook the livers until done in any way you prefer.
• I grill them under the broiler.
• Chop the onions medium-coarsely and fry in the oil until browned, but not burnt.
• You have to babysit the onions, constantly stirring, so they don't burn.
• This can take some time, pull up and chair with a good book, or do other things but keep an eye (and nose) out for the onions.
• With the steel knife, grind the livers in a food processor.
• Add the hard-boiled eggs and give it another whirl until they are incorporated with the liver.
• Add the onions and any extra oil from the bottom of the pot.
• Scrape every last bit of onion into the food processor bowl, this is where the major flavor comes from.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• You can also add any other spices that you like, but this detracts from the traditional flavor of Jewish chopped liver.
• Whirl everything around in the food processor until it reaches the consistency you want.
• Some people prefer it coarse, some like it very fine, almost pate-like.
• Scrape the chopped liver into a serving bowl and chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
• Serve with crackers or challah.
• Try to avoid the temptation to just shovel it into your mouth with a spoon directly from the bowl.

NORTH CROATIAN LIVER DUMPLINGS FOR SOUP

Steps:

• Cover breadcrumbs with milk and wait until breadcrumbs soaks milk. Mince garlic, onion parsley leaves and add marjoram.
• Sauté onion on butter until becomes translucent.
• Mince the liver and sauté them shortly on butter with onion and garlic (just to become grey).
• Add eggs, parsley, marjoram, salt, pepper. Mix well all ingredients and shape them into balls approximately 1 inch in diameter.
• Cook them in hot soup 3-5 minutes (depends on size). Be careful, soup mustn't wildly boil otherwise dumpling will disintegrate.
• If you want to freeze them put them on foil on hard surface making sure they don't touch each other. Freeze them completely and than put into bag. You can take them one by one and follow the above mentioned cooking procedure.