Tender Baked Chicken Liver Rumaki Recipes

FANTABULOUS RUMAKI WITH OR WITHOUT THE LIVERS

Steps:

• Wrap half piece of bacon around half of a chicken liver and one water chestnut. Secure with a toothpick.
• Mix the marinade in a bowl and let the rumaki marinate for several hours or even overnight.
• Cover a sheet pan with a silpat or foil sprayed with cooking spray and broil close to the heat source (but not so close your toothpicks burn up) until the bacon is crispy and the liver is cooked through. Serve hot.
• For non-liver chefs:.
• If you half everything in the recipe, the soy sauce is still too much. I would quarter the soy sauce and use oil or water to make up the difference in volume. I also rotated the pan once under the broiler and actually flipped all the rumaki once with tongs. The ginger, garlic, and brown sugar are amazing. Use high quality water chestnuts if you can.
• Enjoy!

RUMAKI

Steps:

• Mix together the soy, sherry, 3 T of brown sugar, garlic, ginger, and oils in a resealable plastic bag.
• Add chicken livers and mix gently.
• Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight.
• Preheat broiler or over grill to high.
• Drain marinade from chicken livers, reserving 1/4 cup.
• Chop larger chicken livers in half or thirds.
• Cut each bacon slice into 2 pieces.
• Place 1 slice of water chestnut on top of each 1/2 piece of bacon.
• Top with a chicken liver and fold sides of bacon over.
• Run a toothpick through the rumaki to secure it.
• Lay each rumaki on a greased baking sheet (one with sides to catch drippings) or you may also line the pan with quick release foil.
• Mix together the 1/4 cup reserved marinade with 1/4 cup brown sugar until blended.
• Baste the rumaki with this mixture and set aside.
• Broil/grill rumaki for 8-10 minutes or until browned and cooked through.
• During this time, drain any accumulated bacon drippings (or it will smoke); also baste frequently during cooking, and turn rumaki over as they brown.
• Serve hot.

RUMAKI (CHICKEN LIVERS, SEA SCALLOPS OR BOTH)

Steps:

• Place bacon strips on frying pan with low flame and cover pan.
• Melt some butter and add the soy sauce, ginger, sherry and garlic in another frying pan with the chicken livers, scallops, or both, on a medium flame. DO NOT ALLOW THE BACON TO GET FULLY DONE, ONLY PARTIALLY DONE.
• While bacon is still soft and only partially done, remove and place strips onto a paper towel to slightly cool.
• When livers and scallops are done on both sides, remove from flame and also set aside onto paper towel to slightly cool.
• Slice the chicken livers and scallops into somewhat flat pieces.
• Take a piece of chicken liver or scallop, and a slice of water chestnut and wrap either 1/2 strip of bacon or a whole strip of bacon around the liver and water chestnut, securing it with a wooden toothpick. Place the Rumaki onto a cookie sheet, and continue this same procedure, until the cookie sheet is filled and the livers, scallops, and bacon are gone. Set the cookie sheet with all of the Rumaki aside.
• About 20 minutes before company arrives, preheat oven to 450 degrees. About 15 minutes before company arrives, place the cookie sheet with the Rumaki into the oven for 10 minutes, and then raise the oven to broil for about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from oven and serve on a hot plate. Leave the toothpicks in place for serving.