Offal can hardly be called a delicacy.But there are many dishes, the taste of which is in no way inferior to meat. A vivid example of this is hearts stewed in sour cream. This dish is attractive not only excellent taste and expressive texture of the main component, but also the presence of a wonderful sauce, which is combined with the majority of cereal, vegetable and pasta side dishes.
This dish is perfect for familydinner, turning it into a little celebration of taste. Try to cook in our recipe hearts stewed in sour cream, at least once, and this recipe will definitely take its rightful place in your family cookbook.
Useful offal
Nutritionists have calculated that 100 grams of stewedchicken or turkey hearts contain about 17 grams of protein. A lot of it in sour cream sauce. This dish is perfect for the menu of athletes gaining muscle mass, and for all those who prefer natural healthy products. You can also enter this treat in the menu of children over two years old (until this time, most nutritionists and pediatricians do not recommend acquainting children with offal).
Hearts stewed in sour cream are rich not only in protein. As in other dishes from offal, they contain a lot of iron and calcium, as well as vitamins.
Preliminary preparation
For this dish fit chicken hearts, but you can cook it from turkey. Try to give preference to chilled rather than frozen.
Before cooking hearts stewed in sour cream, soak them in cold water for half an hour. The water will darken due to blood residues that have left the vessels, but the gravy will be beautiful and light.
If you are using turkey hearts, cut them into 4 pieces. Chicken can be cut in half or cook whole as you like.
Recipe for braised hearts in sour cream with onions
The basic recipe of this dish is quite simple. For it you will need the following:
- hearts - 1 kg;
- onions - 1-1.5 pcs .;
- butter - 25 g;
- flour - 1.3 tsp;
- sour cream - 2/3 cup;
- water - 100 ml;
- spices and salt at your discretion.
Lightly chop the finely chopped onion in butter. Add hearts to it, mix and cover. The dish will begin to stew.
The extinguishing time may be different, depending onpower burners and used dishes. On average, the process will take about 20 minutes. Do not forget to stir the mixture so that it does not burn. If the fat gets too fast, add a little butter.
As soon as the hearts darken and stoplet the red juice, dilute the flour in water and add it to the saucepan. Lumps should not remain, otherwise they will brew in gravy. Stir, add sour cream and reduce heat to medium. If the sauce seems too thick (especially when using homemade sour cream), add water or broth to the desired consistency. At the very end of cooking, add to hearts stewed in sour cream, salt and spices - as much as you like.
Add color and taste
The proposed recipe is the most popular. But you can add one or two new components to it each time to get different tastes.
This dish goes well with grated onfine grater carrots. It will not only make the sauce more thick and sweetish, but also turn it into a light golden color. For a specified number of products, one medium size is sufficient.
You can add to the hearts of chicken, stewed in sour cream, mushrooms. It will turn out really festive dish. Mushrooms and offal can be taken in arbitrary proportions, for example, 500 g each.
Ripe aromas will give the food Bulgarian pepper. Small cubes of different colors look especially good.
You can add a couple of spoons of tomato paste, soy sauce, French mustard or grated parmesan cheese in the sauce. This will create an interesting structure of the sauce itself, and the taste will complement with a pleasant accent.
Aromatic oriental spices such as hops-suneli and saffron are well suited to this dish. You can use traditional herbs for poultry herbs: rosemary, dried basil, dill, thyme.
Garnishing and serving
Just see how appetizing they look.hearts stewed in sour cream! The recipe from the photo allows you to visually make sure that they can be served to almost any side dish: mashed potatoes, buckwheat and wheat porridge, pasta, grilled vegetables. Salads from young vegetables, pickled mushrooms, homemade pickles are perfectly combined with this dish. Do not forget about the delicious bread, which is so well suited to any dish with thick sour cream sauce.
If the format of your feast implies compliance with the rules of etiquette, serve guests table knives and forks. In a relaxed home environment, of course, you can do without knives.
Serve hearts with sour cream sauce taken portions, placing the main ingredient of a hill on top of the side dish or next to it.
