Take your time to throw out your kidneys. This offal is not as difficult to cook as it seems at first glance. Having prepared soup with kidneys and liver, you will see for yourself. Step-by-step recipe with a photo.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
If there are usually no problems with cooking the liver, since it can simply be fried and served with any side dish. But with such a by-product as kidneys, many housewives do not know how to work, which is what they scare away. Although, in fact, there are no problems with them, if you know certain subtleties and secrets. Take your time to throw them away! From the kidneys, you can prepare a full-fledged main course, salad, snacks and, of course, soup. Let's talk about the latter today. Cooking delicious kidney and liver soup. You can not only follow all the tips, but also enrich the taste of the dish with a bouquet of your favorite spices!
Before you start preparing the kidneys, you should choose the right ones. A quality product has a light brown or brown color and a smooth, coherent structure. There should be no tears or damage on their surface. By purchasing such a by-product, you will receive the maximum health benefits. For example, pork kidneys are a source of vitamins and mineral salts. Due to the content in them of valuable elements (calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, chlorine, potassium), the product improves the process of hematopoiesis. In addition, their calorie content is very low, so the kidneys can be attributed to dietary products.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 50 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour, plus time for soaking the kidneys
Ingredients:
- Pork kidneys - 2 pcs.
- Allspice peas - 3 pcs.
- Potatoes - 2-3 pcs.
- Greens (any) - to taste
- Tomato paste - 200 ml
- Chicken liver - 200 g
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp
Step-by-step preparation of soup with kidneys and liver, recipe with photo:
1. If the kidneys are completely covered with a layer of fat, i. E. fat capsule, be sure to remove this layer before cooking. Pork kidneys are characterized by a specific, unpleasant odor, therefore, before cooking, soak them in water or milk for 3 hours, periodically changing the liquid. Then the unpleasant smell will go away, and the taste will improve. Then cut the kidneys lengthwise and put them in a saucepan.
2. Fill them with water and place them on the stove.
3. Bring the kidneys to a boil, heat medium and simmer for 7 minutes.
4. Place them in a sieve and rinse under running water.
5. Return the buds to a clean saucepan and cover with fresh water.
6. Boil again and simmer for 7 minutes.
7. Do a similar procedure 5 times, add salt to the last liquid and boil the kidneys until tender, ie. softness. Such cooking in 5 stages will help to get rid of the unpleasant odor of offal as much as possible.
8. Also boil the liver. Dip it in a saucepan, cover with water, boil and cook for 30 minutes.
9. Remove the finished liver and kidneys from the pan and cool.
10. Cut the offal into medium cubes.
11. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into cubes. Peel and wash the onion.
12. Dip potatoes and onion into a saucepan.
13. Fill them with water and place the pot on the stove.
14. Boil, reduce heat, put bay leaf and peppercorns. Cook the potatoes until almost cooked.
15. Then send the chopped kidneys with liver to the pan.
16. Pour in the tomato paste.
17. Season the soup with salt.
18. Add ground black pepper.
19. Add dill herbs. It can be fresh or frozen.
20. Also season the dish with parsley. In this recipe, it is dried.
21. Boil the soup for 5-7 minutes and you can serve the dish to the table. Add a slice of lemon to each serving, if desired. It goes well with the kidneys in the first course.
See also a video recipe on how to make pickle with kidneys.
