Chicken hearts are a gentle, healthy and tasty product.
It is strongly recommended that people with diseases of the cardiovascular, nervous system and anemia enter the diet.
But few decide to buy this product, simply because they don’t know how and how much to cook chicken hearts.
How and how much to cook chicken hearts - general principles
Chicken hearts are a universal product, you can cook soups, main dishes from them, they make wonderful salads, pies, goulash and even kebabs.
But before proceeding directly to the cooking process, they must be correctly selected and prepared.
How to choose chicken hearts. Choose chilled products - their feature is that they have a short shelf life, which means they contain more nutrients, unlike frozen ones. In addition, there is no need to thaw them. If your product is frozen, thaw it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Immediately before processing, lay the hearts in slightly salted water for 20-30 minutes.
How to wash chicken hearts. Thoroughly rinse the hearts in the water under cold running water, pressing on each heart with a small pillow of your thumb, this will help push out the remaining blood clots from the inside of the by-product.
How to clean chicken hearts. From carefully washed hearts, cut off fats, blood vessels, remove the film. Rinse the offal again.
How and how much to cook chicken hearts? Pour cold water into the pan, the offal to liquid ratio should be 1/3. Bring the water to a boil, lower the hearts into it, boil the offal for 2-3 minutes, then drain the water and fill it with new water, this time the liquid should barely cover the hearts. Add salt, spices, herbs to your taste. Cook, closing the container with a lid, whole hearts - 25-30 minutes, cut in half - 20 minutes. Do not forget to remove the foam generated during cooking.
How to serve boiled chicken hearts? Boiled hearts are ideal for any traditional side dish: vegetables, legumes, cereals, pasta. They are good in a simple boiled form or with sauce. Sauce for chicken hearts can be prepared any. The most interesting and unusual are sour cream, cream cheese, mustard mayonnaise and others.
Recipe 1: How to Cook Chicken Hearts with Spices
Ingredients:
• 500-600 grams of hearts;
• onion;
• salt pepper;
• dried herbs;
• laurel leaves.
Cooking method:
1. We wash and process the chicken hearts, cut each lengthwise into two parts.
2. Pour two liters of water into the pan, bring it to a boil, spread the by-product. Cook after boiling for 3-4 minutes, after which we drain the water and fill in a new one in the amount of 1-1.2 liters. The liquid should slightly cover the hearts.
3. We cook the by-product after boiling for 20 minutes on a medium-power fire, occasionally removing the resulting protein foam.
4. Add salt, ground black pepper or a mixture of peppers, bay leaves, a whole peeled onion to taste. If desired, put dried herbs, for example, oregano or parsley.
5. Cook, tightly closing the lid of the pan, on a quiet fire for half an hour.
6. Serve with a side dish, catching hearts, or together with the broth in which offal was cooked.
Recipe 2: How to Cook Chicken Hearts in Mustard Cheese Sauce
Ingredients:
• a pound of hearts;
• 100 grams of fresh or frozen champignons;
• 150 ml cream;
• 40 grams of Dijon mustard;
• 20-30 ml of olive oil;
• 10 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of butter;
• 50 grams of ghee;
• 100 grams of hard cheese;
• salt.
Cooking method:
1. Mix olive oil with one tablespoon of mustard and salt. Pour the prepared chicken hearts with this mixture, mix well, so that each heart is coated in the marinade.
2. Remove the by-product for one hour in the refrigerator.
3. Put the melted butter in the pan, warm it, put the hearts together with the marinade, fry on both sides until blush.
4. Add the sliced champignons, fry until the liquid evaporates from the mushrooms.
5. While the hearts with mushrooms are fried, heat the cream in a small saucepan, add the butter. As soon as it melts, add flour and put a spoonful of mustard. During the preparation of the sauce, stir the mass all the time so that it does not burn or boil.
6. Remove the finished, thickened sauce from the stove, add half the finely grated cheese. Mix until it is completely dissolved.
7. Put the hearts with mushrooms on a plate, fill them with mustard-cheese sauce. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Serve hot.
Recipe 3: How to Cook Chicken Hearts in Batter
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken hearts;
• 350-400 grams of flour;
• five eggs;
• butter;
• salt pepper;
• 100 ml of soy sauce.
Cooking method:
1. We prepare the hearts and put them in soy sauce for 3-4 hours.
2. After the time has passed, we take out and cut each heart into two parts, but not to the very end. We align the offal along the entire length, beat off the hammer on both sides.
3. In a small bowl, beat the eggs with salt.
4. Pour flour into another bowl.
5. Dip each heart first in flour, then in eggs.
6. Spread on hot oil, fry for 2-4 minutes on each side until a distinctive rosy color.
Recipe 4: How to Make Chicken Heart Salad
Ingredients:
• 400-500 grams of hearts;
• onion;
• 150 ml of soy sauce;
• pepper, salt;
• salad mix;
• cherry tomatoes;
• salt, a mixture of peppers;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. We wash the chicken hearts, clean, dry, cut lengthwise into two parts.
2. Put them in a pan on hot oil, fry on all sides for 10 minutes.
3. Pour in the sauce, add a little salt (you can not put it at all), pepper, simmer for 5-10 minutes until the sauce is partially evaporated.
4. We take out the finished hearts with a slotted spoon, and put thin half rings of onion into the oil in which they were fried.
5. We lay the lettuce leaves on a large flat dish, on top in a chaotic order we put the cooled hearts, fried onions, halves of cherry tomatoes.
6. Pour the chicken hearts salad with cooled soy sauce.
Recipe 5: How to Make Chicken Hearts with Vegetables
Ingredients:
• 600-700 grams of hearts;
• two leeks;
• two meaty tomatoes;
• one eggplant;
• leaves of curly parsley;
• vegetable oil;
• 30 grams of mayonnaise;
• 100 ml cream;
• salt, a mixture of peppers;
• 100 grams of cheese.
Cooking method:
1. Fry the prepared chicken hearts until half ready.
2. Add chopped onions, and eggplant, diced. We continue to fry.
3. After 5 minutes, remove the pan from the heat, and distribute all the ingredients in layers in pots.
4. The first layer lay hearts with onions and eggplant, diced blanched tomatoes, mayonnaise.
5. Fill the layers with cream, mixing them with a small amount of salt and ground pepper.
6. Sprinkle all finely grated cheese.
7. Stew the chicken hearts until fully cooked for 40 minutes at 160 degrees.
Recipe 6: How to Make Chicken Heart Pie
Ingredients:
• a pound of finished puff pastry;
• three potatoes;
• a pound of hearts;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• two eggs;
• salt.
Cooking method:
1. We wash and boil chicken hearts, following the general principles. Cool them, cut into 6-8 parts.
2. From boiled potatoes we make mashed potatoes.
3. We rub the cheese on a large segment of the grater.
4. Mix the cheese with mashed potatoes and hearts, drive one egg into it, add salt.
5. Divide the puff pastry into two parts. We roll one out with a thin layer and line it on a greased baking sheet.
6. Spread the filling of chicken hearts.
7. We cover the filling with the second rolled layer. We pinch the edges.
8. Lubricate the surface of the pie with a second egg.
9. Bake for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
Recipe 7: How to Stew Chicken Hearts in Sour Cream
Ingredients:
• 400-500 grams of offal;
• 100 grams of sour cream;
• 60 ml of soy sauce;
• 60 grams of tomato paste;
• onion;
• carrot;
• white ground pepper, salt;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Cut fats and blood vessels from washed hearts, remove the film.
2. We cut each offal into two parts, rinse again and slightly dry.
3. Cut the peeled onion in half rings.
4. We spread both hearts and onions in a bowl, pepper and salt, remove for 1 hour in the refrigerator under oppression.
5. Peel the carrots, rub on a coarse grater, fry until golden on hot oil.
6. Add hearts with onions, fry, stirring, 15-20 minutes.
7. Pour all the products in the pan with a mixture of sour cream, tomato paste and soy sauce. Add the dish if necessary. Stew for another 8-12 minutes.
How and how much to cook chicken hearts - tricks and useful tips
• Boil hearts better not just in salted water, but with the addition of spices and vegetables, so they will turn out tastier and more aromatic.
• It is desirable to fry the offal in butter or in a mixture of butter and vegetable oils - they are softer and softer.
• If you doubt the readiness of hearts, pierce them with a knife. Higher light broth - ready, red anemone - you still need to boil.
• Chicken hearts - meat, interesting both in structure and in taste. Properly prepared offal diversifies your diet with new dishes. Do not be afraid to experiment in combining a variety of ingredients, chicken hearts, just like chicken itself is combined with almost all products.
