Chicken Livers in Sour Cream (originally from Mr. Food)
SERVES 4, COOK TIME 25 Min
Don't be thrown off by the name of this recipe because these Chicken Livers in Sour Cream are delish! They're full of old world flavor with a taste that everyone will love!
What You'll Need
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 large onion, sliced or chopped
- 1 pound chicken livers
- 1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
- 1/3 cup dry sherry
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
What to Do
Melt butter in a large skillet over low heat. Add mushrooms and onion; cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until vegetables are tender. Add livers, and cook 1 minute. Cover, reduce heat to low, and cook 15 minutes.
Stir in sour cream and remaining 3 ingredients, and cook until thoroughly heated. Serve immediately over warm cooked rice or in puff pastry shells.
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19B Soup (originally from Ayesha's Kitchen)
3 - 4 SERVINGS, like 40min with prep time
Ingredients:
- 1 cup prawn meat (tail & shell removed, cut into small chunks)
- 5 dried black shitake mushrooms (easily available at Asian grocery shops) (soaked in 8 cups of hot water for 30 minutes)
- 1 cup chicken breast (boneless, cut into very small cubes)
- 2 tbspns cooking oil + 2 tbspns sesame oil
- ½ cup chopped carrots
- ½ cup spring onion (green part only, chopped)
- 2 egg whites
- ½ cup corn flour slurry (1/2 cup water mixed with 3 tbspns heap full cornflour)
SAUCES and SPICES
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbspn ajinomoto
- 1 tspn black pepper
- A generous pinch of ginger powder
- ¼ cup dark thick soy sauce
- 4 tbspns vinegar
- A splash of fish sauce (to give that shrimp prawny smell & taste)
Method:
- In a deep cooking pot heat 2 tbspns oil and 2 tbspns sesame seed oil and fry chicken chunks until the chicken turns white. Add ginger powder and all the other spices and fry for 1 minute.
- Add shrimps and fry for further 2 minutes.
- Meanwhile chop the mushrooms and drain the mushroom water into the cooking pot. Add the mushrooms and bring it to boil.
- Add carrots and green onion along with all the sauces and give it a boil for further 5 minutes.
- Add corn flour slurry with constant stirring until you reach the desired consistency. Add more if you feel like.
- Mix in egg whites and let it boil for further 5 minutes.
- Serve hot with shrimp or fish crackers.