Pilaf With Chicken Livers

echo echo's Note:

A Turkish dish. My preference is to reduce the amounts of butter and salt from what is shown. Please be warned that chicken livers have a taste that does not appeal to everybody.

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 lb chicken liver , washed and patted dry
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• pepper
• 1 ½ cups thinly sliced scallions
• 2 medium tomatoes , peeled, seeded and chopped
• 2 tablespoons pine nuts
• 2 tablespoons chopped almonds
• 2 tablespoons raisins
• 1 cup uncooked white rice
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Directions:

1. In a skillet, saute chicken livers in 2 Tbs butter 5 minutes or until done; remove from the pan, sprinkle with 1/2 tsp salt and pepper and set aside.
2. Add half the scallions to skillet and saute until slightly browned; remove with slotted spoon and set aside.
3. Melt 2 Tbs butter in a 3-quart saucepan and saute the other half of the scallions.
4. Add the tomatoes through raisins and stir-fry 2 minutes.
5. Add the uncooked rice and stir-fry 1 minute.
6. Add 2 cups water, 1/2 tsp salt and pepper to taste; bring to a boil.
7. Stir with a fork, reduce heat to a very low simmer, cover and cook 25 minutes or until rice absorbs all the liquid.
8. Place the reserved livers and scallions atop the rice mixture, cover and heat through.
9. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.

Reviews

[Lighty]

Discovered some chicken liver in the freezer yday, and chose this recipe to "dispose" of it. Both DH and I are fans of chicken liver, and we liked this quite a bit. Changes I made: -used .5 T of melted solidified chicken fat for each frying stage -did not seed or peel the tomato -used more pine nuts instead of almonds -used 1 c chardonnay and 1 c home-made stock instead of 2 c water -used 3 T cilantro instead of parsley - it's what I had Next time (and there will be a next time) I'll add some lemon zest and some spice - perhaps a dash of cayenne and a t of turmeric. Regardless, a very nice, quick, and easy dish.

[evelyn/athens]

Dh raved about this dish. The combination of ingredients is excellent, resulting in a very savoury pilaf. A good way to use chicken livers - economical, too.

[L DJ]

Fan of chicken livers so this caught my eye. I usually just fry em up for my self and serve the family something else. I decided to pamper me tonight. Everyone wanted a taste. Now they tell me if I make them this way they'll eat them. Thanks for sharing.