Chicken livers on toast

Chicken livers on toast

Not just for stuffings and pâtés, pan-fried chicken livers make a good-value starter or light lunch

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

Low-fat

Method

  1. Pick over the livers, cutting away any fatty bits and sinew, then pat the livers dry. Place the shallot, parsley and capers into a bowl and drizzle with half the olive oil and 1 tbsp of the Sherry vinegar.
  2. Toast the bread (preferably on a griddle but a toaster is fine). Toss the livers in the flour and cayenne pepper, and season generously with salt and pepper. Heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan and fry the livers over a really high heat for 4-5 mins until brown and crisp on the outside and cooked, but still a little pink in the middle. Splash remaining vinegar into the pan and bubble down for 1 min.
  3. Tip the contents of the pan in with the shallot and parsley, toss everything together, season to taste, then pile onto the toasted bread. Season with a little crunchy sea salt and serve.
Try

Chicken livers

You can buy chicken livers, with the fat and sinew already removed, from the butchers, or buy them in packs from supermarkets and tidy them up yourself. Try them in a salad with chunks of bacon and cooked green beans. A perfectly pan-fried chicken liver will be cooked all the way through but still pink (not raw) in the middle. You can check by cutting a liver in half - if it is undercooked, return to the pan for a few more minutes.

Per serving

221 kcalories, protein 14g, carbohydrate 25g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 2g, sugar 1g, salt 0.83 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2010.

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  • 24 September 2010

    bexter25 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I could not believe how tasty this dish was, I could have eaten it twice! The left overs made an excellent cold salad the next day with the inclusion of some crispy smoked bacon!

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  • 16 October 2010

    Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made this for lunch for my mum yesterday and used the quantities above for just the two of us! Was delicious though!

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  • 21 March 2013

    Gabriele commented on this recipe

    Absolutely delicicious. I made it twice, second time round I served it on roasted mixed peppers to save on calories.. Great!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

Low-fat

Ingredients

  • 250g chicken livers
  • 2 shallots , finely chopped
  • large handful flatleaf parsley , leaves very roughly chopped
  • 1 tbsp capers , rinsed and drained, roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • 4 slices nice bread , such as sourdough
  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • large pinch cayenne pepper
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Per serving

221 kcalories, protein 14g, carbohydrate 25g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 2g, sugar 1g, salt 0.83 g

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