By-products are inexpensive, they contain the same proteins, fats and amino acids as full-value meat, but they are bought relatively rarely. The fact is that not all mistresses are able to properly cook offal, and if the liver or heart is still in demand in the market, the kidneys are rarely bought. The whole thing, of course, in a not very pleasant smell, which scares consumers away from this rather tasty and cheap product.
We get rid of the smell
When we find the right beef or pork kidneys, the question is how to cook them without a smell. You can get rid of an unpleasant odor in several ways.
The first method is the cheapest, but the longest. It will take water all day. We remove the kidneys from the film, in which they are sometimes sold, cut out the ducts, remove the fat, cut them into small pieces, and in the beef kidneys - trying to cut by the sticks. Fill with cold water with a small amount of soda. We are waiting for 2 hours, rinsing, changing the water, waiting for another 2 hours, boil to boil in clean water, mine and leave another couple of hours soaked (water, of course, change).
The second way will suit only those who are not afraid of vinegar. In the water we pour in 2 tbsp. spoon of vinegar, pour as much salt, wash the kidneys in this mixture, then move it under running water for a quarter of an hour.
The third way is to soak the kidneys in milk, wait a couple of hours and rinse. In all cases, the unpleasant odor will go away and the kidneys can be cooked calmly.
What to cook?
There is no smell, now we will decide what can be cooked from the kidneys, say, beef. From this by-product prepare and the first dishes: rassolniki , saltwort , and snacks. But most often just fry the kidneys with the addition of various ingredients. Here is the most popular option.
Kidney and sour cream - classic
Tell you how delicious to cook the kidneys after you have soaked them.
Ingredients:
- calf kidneys - 2-3 pcs. (about 700 g);
- sour cream with a fat content of not less than 15% - 100 ml;
- salt - 2 pinch;
- bulbs white salad - 4-5 pcs .;
- cold pressed oil from sunflower - 50 ml;
- black pepper freshly ground - to taste.
Preparation
Onions are cut with feathers, oil is heated, put the buds in a frying pan, quickly fry until the color changes and add the onion. Intensively stir until the onion is gilded. Salt, pepper and sour cream are added at the same time, stirring, warming up to a boil. Turn it off and serve with vegetables and herbs, potatoes or rice.