Lamb Liver Stroganoff

Lamb Liver Stroganoff

I know that I posted a “skinny chicken stroganoff” recently, about 2 posts ago, but I done this this evening for our Easy Monday Meal at The Links, and it was such a big hit, I tried a little myself and it truly is a classic that I think even the most stubborn non liver eaters would turn around and say, Ooh liver isn’t that bad, really easy to make consists of 2 parts, a base sauce and then the finishing of the liver.

Difficulty: Easy

Prep: 20 min

Cooking Time: 35 min

Serves: 6

Ingredients for base sauce

1 Small onion fine sliced

80g streaky bacon cut into batons

500g Mushrooms quartered

25g tomato paste

250ml dry red wine

250ml beef stock

1 clove fresh garlic

Small handful chopped parsley

A few sprigs of thyme

1 tsp paprika

250ml cream

1 small gherkin finely cubed

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Fry off the bacon in a little oil, until it starts to go a little crispy, then add in the onions and cook until translucent, then add in the garlic, thyme and tomato paste, carry on cooking this for about 2 more minutes, then deglaze the pan with the red wine and add in the rest of the ingredients except the mushrooms and parsley, leave this to simmer gently for about 20 minutes, then add in the mushrooms and parsley and let simmer for a further 5 minutes.

At this point the base sauce is cooked and is ready to be used in either a beef stroganoff, chicken or as in this case a lamb liver.

Ingredients for Lamb Liver Stroganoff

Base sauce from above

1kg lambs liver cut into strips

2 small onions chopped

1 TBSP flour

5 TBSP sour cream

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Fry off the liver in two extremely hot pans, this is because as soon as you add in the liver the pan is going to lose all of its heat and the liver will stew opposed to frying, so better to use two pans to lessen this effect, as soon as the lamb is in the pan, add in the onions, toss once or twice until the lamb is coloured all around but not cooked through, divide the flour into the two pans toss until all the flour absorbs the oil, then add in the base sauce from the recipe above, leave this now to come to a strong simmer, then add the sour cream take off the heat and serve.

I have served it here with mashed potatoes and caramelized onions

Caramelized onions recipe

2 onions sliced

1 TBSP brown sugar

Oil for frying

1 tot of whisky

Fry off the onions until they start to colour, then add the sugar and cook for a further 4 -5 minutes then just before you take it off the heat add in the whisky and light it, let the flames burn out and you’re done.

Recipe of the week – Skinny Chicken Stroganoff

Recipe of the week – Skinny Chicken Stroganoff

My recipe this week, ”Skinny” Chicken Stroganoff with Sweet potato mash is inspired by Liezl Clause, as she has quite a good eating plan (not a diet, more of a life style change).  The nice thing about this eating plan is that there are still some of the “nicer” indulgences that you are allowed, in moderation of course, so I have gone through all of these things and come up with this lovely “skinny chicken stroganoff” recipe.

Difficulty:  Easy

Prep Time:  10 Minutes

Cooking time:  20 Minutes

Serves:  2

Ingredients:

250g Skinless, boneless chicken breast

250g Mushrooms, cubed

1 small onion, roughly cubed

2 sprigs oregano

2 sprigs of thyme

1 clove garlic, finely sliced

1 TBSP tomato paste

1 gherkin, finely diced

1 leek, sliced

½ cup low fat cream cheese

½ cup fat free yoghurt

½ cup water

2 tsp paprika

1 tot whisky

Salt and pepper to taste

1 TBSP Olive oil

2 medium sized sweet potatoes, peeled and finely sliced (this allows them to cook in 15 minutes)

1 TBSP Cream

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Cook the sweet potatoes until soft, add salt, pepper and cream and mash as to make mashed potatoes.

Heat a sautéed pan, start to fry off the chicken, when it starts to colour, add in the onions and garlic, continue to stir almost continually, as there is not much oil it will tend to stick quite quickly. Now add in the paprika, salt, pepper, leeks, tomato paste and herbs and continue to sauté for another 2 minutes.

Add in the rest of the ingredients and let it simmer for about 5 to 8 minutes, taste and adjust seasoning if needed.