Introduction Chicken liver is the liver of the domestic chicken of the Phasianidae family. It is one of the chicken offal. It has two leaves of different sizes, with bitter gall and tendons on the leaf surface (which must be removed during processing). It is purple-red in color and tender in texture. It is suitable for braising and frying. For example: braised chicken liver, fried chicken liver. Due to its rich nutrition and special effects, chicken liver has become the best food for blood tonic and health preservation. The liver is an important organ for storing nutrients and detoxification in animals. It contains rich nutrients and has nutritional and health functions. It is one of the most ideal blood tonic products. It comes from the liver of the domestic chicken of the Phasianidae family.
Nutritional value of chicken liver Chicken liver is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and B vitamins. Liver is rich in iron and is the most commonly used food for blood tonic. The content of vitamin A in animal liver far exceeds that of milk, eggs, meat, fish and other foods. It has the function of maintaining normal growth and reproductive function, protecting the eyes, maintaining normal vision, preventing dry eyes and fatigue, maintaining a healthy complexion, and is of great significance to skin fitness. Regular consumption of animal liver can also supplement vitamin B2, which is an important coenzyme for the body. Vitamin B2 is a component of many enzymes and coenzymes in human biochemical metabolism. It plays an indirect role in cell proliferation and skin growth, and can complete the important role of the body in removing some toxic components. The liver also contains vitamin C and trace element selenium that are not contained in general meat foods. It can enhance the body's immune response, anti-oxidation, anti-aging, and inhibit the production of tumor cells. It can also treat acute infectious hepatitis. Animal liver is rich in iron, which is an essential element for the production of red blood cells. Once it is lacking, you will feel tired and your face will be pale. Eating animal liver in moderation can make the skin rosy, so eating animal liver regularly is also beneficial to the healthy growth of the skin.
Chicken liver is rich in vitamin B1. When this vitamin enters the human body, it will produce a volatile chemical substance that can block the sensory hairs on the antennae of mosquitoes, making it impossible for mosquitoes to find people. Naturally, mosquitoes will stay away from you.
Chicken liver has the effect of replenishing liver blood and improving eyesight. The nutritional value of chicken liver is that it is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and vitamin A. The ways to cook chicken liver include chicken liver porridge, spicy chicken liver, braised chicken liver, chicken liver stewed with cinnamon, vegetable and fruit chicken liver puree, fried chicken liver with tomatoes, chicken liver and mung bean porridge, black sesame chicken liver, fried chicken liver with fungus, braised chicken liver, honey chicken liver, walnut chicken liver, soft-fried chicken liver, chicken liver and crucian carp, fried chicken liver with shiitake mushrooms, chicken liver with cyperus, chicken liver boiled with Poria, cold chicken liver and preserved egg, black fungus chicken liver soup, and braised chicken liver with enoki mushrooms. The efficacy and function of chicken liver Chicken liver is rich in nutrients and has special effects, making it the best food for blood tonic and health preservation. Chicken liver is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and B vitamins. Chicken liver is rich in iron and is the most commonly used food among blood tonic foods. The content of vitamin A in animal liver far exceeds that of milk, eggs, meat, fish and other foods. It has the function of maintaining normal growth and reproductive function, can protect the eyes, maintain normal vision, prevent dry eyes and fatigue, and is of great significance to skin health.
It nourishes the liver and kidneys. It can treat liver deficiency, dark eyes, malnutrition in children, and miscarriage in women.
① "Bie Lu": "It is mainly used to raise the yin."
② Meng Shen: "Red rooster liver nourishes the kidneys."
③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can cure wind-deficiency and dark eyes."
④ "Yi Lin Zong Yao": "Treats infantile malnutrition and kills parasites."
⑤ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Suitable for jaundice, postpartum anemia in women, tuberculosis, and weakness in children." Side effects and contraindications of eating chicken liver Chicken liver nourishes blood and improves eyesight, so there is nothing to worry about. However, do not eat diseased chicken liver or discolored or spoiled chicken liver.
Animal liver should not be consumed together with drugs such as vitamin C, anticoagulants, levodopa, parecholine and phenelzine. How to make delicious chicken liver Chicken liver method:
Chicken Liver Porridge <br /> Effects: Nourishes blood and improves eyesight. Suitable for dizziness, decreased vision, dry eyes and various anemia caused by liver blood deficiency.
Ingredients: 100 grams each of chicken liver and rice, and appropriate amount of seasoning.
Preparation method: Wash the chicken liver, chop it into small pieces, put it in a pot with rice, add appropriate amount of water, and cook it into porridge. When it is cooked, add chopped green onion, minced ginger, pepper, salt, MSG, etc., and boil it for one or two more times. Take one dose per day.
Spicy Chicken Liver <br /> Ingredients: 1 pound of chicken liver, potatoes, appropriate amounts of onions, ginger and garlic, 1 tablespoon of bean paste, appropriate amounts of chili peppers, appropriate amounts of Sichuan peppercorns, a little sugar, a little salt, and a little white wine.
practice:
1. Soak the chicken liver in clean water for half a day to remove the blood, then clean it and make a few cuts on the goose. Chop some green onions and ginger for later use.
2. Put the chicken liver in a clean bowl, sprinkle 1 pinch of salt, chopped green onion and ginger, add a small spoonful of white wine, and marinate for 1 hour;
3. Take a frying pan without adding any oil. Place the chicken liver face down on the bottom of the pan and heat it on low heat. During the heating process, the pan will make a sizzling sound. When one side is cooked, turn it over and fry the other side. When the chicken liver is fully cooked, take it out.
4. Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin slices. Fry the potatoes over low heat with the remaining oil in the pan. When the potatoes are cooked, scoop them out.
5. Put the bean paste into the pot, stir-fry over low heat to make red oil, add chopped onion, ginger, garlic and dried chili peppers, add appropriate amount of peppercorns according to personal taste, then add chicken liver and stir-fry continuously, add a little sugar, then add potato slices and stir-fry evenly;
6. When the surface of the potatoes and meat is completely covered with sauce and fully flavored, turn off the heat. You can sprinkle with sesame seeds (crushed peanuts), coriander (chopped green onions) and other garnishes to increase the flavor.
Braised Chicken Liver <br /> Ingredients: 1 pound of chicken liver, some light soy sauce, 5g dark soy sauce, 1.5g sugar, some salt, some chives.
practice:
1. Cut the chicken liver into small pieces, blanch it to remove the blood, and drain the water;
2. Heat oil in a pan, add the chicken liver and stir-fry, then add soy sauce and sugar and fry over medium heat;
3. Cover the pot and simmer for a few minutes on low heat. Stir-fry again in the middle to prevent the pot from getting sticky.
4. Add salt before serving and place onion on top.
Braised Chicken Liver <br /> Ingredients: 500g chicken liver, 25g salt, 8g green onion, 10g ginger, 4 star anise, 10 peppercorns, a piece of cinnamon, 8g cooking wine, 2 teaspoons soy sauce, some MSG, 4 dried red peppers.
practice:
1. Wash the chicken liver with clean water, soak it in clean water for 20 minutes, then boil the water, put the chicken liver in and cook for 2 minutes, then drain.
2. Put an appropriate amount of cooking oil in the pot and heat it up. Add dried red peppers, onions, and ginger. After the aroma comes out, add an appropriate amount of boiling water. Add the prepared spice bag to the pot. After cooking for 10 minutes, add cooking wine and soy sauce, continue to cook for 5 minutes, then add MSG. Turn off the heat and simmer for 10 minutes before eating.
Honey Chicken Liver <br /> Ingredients: 150g chicken liver, 10g honey, 1g wolfberry, 1 spoon of sesame oil, appropriate amounts of salt, starch, chopped green onion, and shredded ginger.
practice:
1. Wash the chicken liver, blanch it in boiling water and remove it;
2. Soak wolfberries in water until soft and drain;
3. Slice the chicken liver, add honey, salt, starch and shredded ginger and mix well;
4. Place the chicken liver on a plate, sprinkle with wolfberries, and drizzle with a spoonful of sesame oil;
5. Steam it in a steamer until cooked, and sprinkle with chopped green onions after serving.
Efficacy: Honey has the effect of moistening the lungs. Combined with the liver-tonifying effect of chicken liver, it is not only rich in nutrients but also can remove the bitterness of chicken liver.
Walnut Chicken Liver <br /> Effects: Improves brain function, improves intelligence, improves eyesight and nourishes the liver, suitable for the elderly and teenagers to use for brain health.
Ingredients: 250 grams of chicken liver, 50 grams of walnut kernels, garlic slices, cooking wine, soaked mushrooms, peanut oil, salt, soy sauce, MSG, clear soup, wet starch, and sesame oil in appropriate amounts.
Method: Slice the chicken liver and mushrooms; chop the walnut kernels. Fry the chicken liver in a pan with oil, add garlic slices, walnut kernels, mushrooms and various seasonings, thicken the sauce, and drizzle with sesame oil before serving.
Usage: Eat with meals.
Soft fried chicken liver <br /> Ingredients: 100g chicken liver, a little flour, egg white, refined salt, and vegetable oil.
practice:
1. Wash the chicken liver, remove the gallbladder, cut into round slices, sprinkle with salt and flour, and dip in egg white;
2. Place the pan on the fire, heat the oil, add the chicken liver and fry until both sides turn golden brown.
Crucian carp with chicken liver <br /> Ingredients: 250g large crucian carp, 15g dendrobium, a few scallions, a little green tea, 1 chicken liver.
Method: Stew and take chicken liver with three meals, 1 dose per day. Avoid salt.
Stir-fried mushrooms with chicken liver <br /> Ingredients: 3 mushrooms, 1 chicken liver, 3 slices of ginger, 1 teaspoon each of sesame oil, sugar, and starch, appropriate amounts of rice wine, salt, and light soy sauce. Instructions:
1. Wash the chicken liver, boil water in a pot and cook the chicken liver for a while;
2. Cut the chicken liver into slices, add sesame oil, starch, ginger, soy sauce, sugar and rice wine and marinate for 15 minutes;
3. Soak the mushrooms in water in advance and cut them into strips;
4. Heat oil in a pan, add mushrooms and stir-fry until cooked, pour in the marinated chicken liver, add a little water and stir-fry, add celery leaves and salt to taste.
Chicken liver stewed with cinnamon <br /> Effects: nourishes liver and kidney, warms kidney yang, suitable for people with liver and kidney deficiency and kidney yang deficiency.
Ingredients: 2 grams of cinnamon, 2 pairs of chicken livers, 3 slices of ginger, and a little Shaoxing wine.
Method: Wash the chicken liver and put it into a stew pot, add appropriate amount of water, ginger slices and Shaoxing wine. Wash the cinnamon and put it into the stew pot, cover the stew pot, stew for 2 hours, and season it before eating. Reduce the amount for children.
Usage: Serve with meals.
Chicken liver with cyperus rotundus <br /> Ingredients: 100g chicken liver, 200g chicken, 10g cyperus rotundus, 2 onions, 1 radish, appropriate amount of celery, appropriate amount of vermicelli, appropriate amount of fried tofu, wine, and sugar.
Efficacy: Warming the meridians and promoting the circulation of Qi.
practice:
1. First, chop the angelica root into small pieces, use 2 cups of water, and simmer for about 1 hour. When it is half done, filter it with a cloth and keep the juice for later use;
2. Dice the chicken liver and onion, slice the radish, cut the celery into 3-4 cm long segments, soak the vermicelli in hot water until soft and chop into short pieces, and cut the fried tofu into pieces;
3. Place the chicken on the bottom of the pot, put the chicken liver on top of the chicken, put the seasoning on the top, add 3 teaspoons of wine, and put in cyperus juice, sugar, soy sauce, and chicken soup;
4. Bring to a boil over high heat first, then simmer over low heat until done.
Poria cocos and chicken liver <br /> Effects: Strengthens the spleen and produces blood, nourishes the liver and kidneys. Suitable for children with malnutrition and physical deficiency.
Ingredients: 30 grams of chicken liver, 10 grams of Poria cocos.
Method: Cook chicken liver and Poria cocos together.
Usage: Eat the liver and drink the soup for 10 days.
Vegetable and Fruit Chicken Liver Puree <br /> Ingredients: 1 chicken liver, half an apple, 1/4 onion, a little salt Method:
1. Wash the chicken liver and soak it in appropriate amount of clean water for 2 hours. It is best to change the water once during this period.
2. Rinse the soaked chicken liver with running water, remove the fascia and put it in a pot of clean water to cook;
3. Peel and chop the apples, wash and chop the onions, put the apples and onions into a food blender and blend them into a puree;
4. Take out the cooked chicken liver, grind it into puree, add the beaten vegetable and fruit puree, and then add a little water and mix well;
5. Put it in a pot and cook over medium-low heat until it becomes a thin paste. Finally, add a little salt to season.
Fried chicken liver with tomatoes <br /> Ingredients: 250g chicken liver, 250g tomatoes, 2g pepper, 5g ginger, 3g salt, 5g sugar, 3g soy sauce, 2g MSG, 325g vegetable oil.
practice:
1. Cut the chicken liver into irregular quadrilaterals with a slanting knife of 3 cm wide and 4 cm long, add salt, MSG, and Shaoxing Huadiao wine for later use, and cut the tomatoes into 1 cm square cubes for later use;
2. Heat the oil in a pan over low heat, pour in the oil and when it is hot, pinch some cornstarch on the marinated chicken liver slices, slide them into the pan and stir-fry, and set aside after the blood is cut off;
3. Do not wash the wok, pour in the diced tomatoes and stir-fry over medium heat until the juice becomes thick. When most of it is done, add the chicken liver and stir-fry over low heat. After frying a few spoonfuls, immediately pour in soy sauce for coloring and a little water, bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately switch to low heat, add sugar and MSG and serve.
Chicken liver and mung bean porridge <br /> Ingredients: 100g fresh chicken liver, 60g mung bean, 100g rice, appropriate amount of salt and MSG.
Method: First wash the mung beans and rice and cook them together. After boiling over high heat, simmer over low heat. Then put the sliced or stripped chicken liver into the pot and cook together. Add seasonings after it is cooked.
Chicken liver and preserved egg salad <br /> Ingredients: 3 preserved eggs, 3 chicken livers, 1 tablespoon minced garlic, 2 tablespoons minced green onion, 1/2 tablespoon minced chili, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon sesame oil. Instructions:
1. Heat the preserved eggs in water, then cook over medium heat for 12 minutes. Remove from the water after blanching. The boiled preserved eggs are easier to slice and will not break. Rinse, remove the shells and cut into eighths.
2. Wash the chicken liver and blanch it to remove the blood. Wash it again and steam it for 20 minutes until cooked. Cut it into pieces of the same size as the preserved eggs and set aside.
3. Mix all the seasonings, then put the ingredients from steps 1 and 2 into a container and mix well. Serve after the seasonings are absorbed.
Black sesame chicken liver <br /> Ingredients: 350g chicken liver, 50g black sesame, 25g flour, 1 egg, 5g chopped green onion, 5g refined salt, 1g MSG, 10g Shaoxing wine, 5g minced ginger, 0.5g pepper, 1000g cooked peanut oil (about 100g consumed).
practice:
1. Wash the chicken liver, remove the fascia, cut each liver into two pieces with a knife, put them in a bowl, add chopped green onion, minced ginger, Shaoxing wine, refined salt, MSG, and pepper powder, mix well and soak for a while;
2. Beat the eggs in a bowl and mix well. Add flour to make a paste. Add chicken liver and mix well. Then put the chicken liver slices into the black sesame seeds, and coat both sides with black sesame seeds.
3. Place the wok on medium heat, add peanut oil and heat until 50% hot. Put the chicken liver covered with black sesame seeds into the wok one by one and fry until cooked. Remove from the pan, drain the oil and serve.
Fried black fungus with chicken liver <br /> Effects: nourishes the liver and kidneys, warms the meridians and dredges the collaterals; effective for rheumatoid arthritis, chronic arthritis, lumbar muscle strain, and fatigue syndrome.
Ingredients: 80 grams of chicken liver, 30 grams of black fungus, 3 grams of cinnamon, 100 grams of garlic, wet starch, cooking wine, salt, MSG, and minced ginger in appropriate amounts.
practice:
1. Wash the cinnamon, dry it and grind it into powder, wash the garlic and slice it, wash the chicken liver and slice it, soak the black fungus in clean water and then wash it.
2. Add chicken liver, cooking wine, salt, minced ginger, etc. into the wok and stir-fry until cooked.
3. Put garlic, cinnamon, black fungus in the oil pan, add salt, stir-fry until cooked, pour in chicken liver and stir-fry until cooked, add MSG and wet starch to thicken.
Black Fungus Chicken Liver Soup <br /> Ingredients: 3 chicken livers, a few ounces of black fungus, a little shredded ginger, a little chopped green onion, a little shrimp head, and a little olive oil.
practice:
1. Soak black fungus for two hours in advance, wash and set aside, wash chicken liver and cut into thick slices with a slanting knife, cut ginger into shreds, and cut green onions into cubes;
2. Pour olive oil into the pan, sauté the shrimp heads until fragrant, make shrimp oil, put it in a bowl and set aside;
3. Take a pot of water, put in the black fungus and cook until cooked, turn off the heat, pour in the chicken liver, the boiling soup can use the residual heat to scald the chicken liver, so don't continue to cook on high heat, otherwise it will become firewood chicken liver;
4. Add the fried shrimp oil, sprinkle with chopped green onions, add salt and serve.
Enoki mushrooms and chicken liver <br /> Ingredients: 250g each of fresh enoki mushrooms and chicken liver, refined vegetable oil, minced garlic, minced ginger, chopped green onion, sugar, rice wine, salt, MSG, and wet starch.
practice:
1. Wash and cut the chicken liver into pieces, and cut the enoki mushrooms into sections;
2. Heat oil in a wok, add minced garlic, minced ginger, and chopped green onion, and stir-fry chicken liver until 80% cooked;
3. Add the enoki mushrooms and stir-fry until well-flavored. Add sugar, rice wine, salt and MSG for seasoning. Thicken with wet starch and serve. Medicinal value of chicken liver ① Treating liver deficiency and dark eyes in the elderly: chop up a black rooster liver and make porridge with fermented black beans and rice. (Black rooster liver porridge in "New Book on Longevity and Elderly Care")
② Treat malnutrition, food accumulation, worm qi attacking, inability to see at night, cataracts: one chicken liver (do not put it into water, cut it into pieces with a bamboo knife), use 7 parts of oyster powder, add a little cinnabar, grind it into powder with water, mix it, and add 50 grams of oyster powder to make it smooth. ("Chicken Liver Powder" from "Liangpeng Collection")
③Treatment of nocturnal enuresis: Take equal parts of rooster liver and cinnamon heart. Crush them into pills the size of red beans. Take one pill each time with rice water, three times a day. For nocturnal enuresis, add white dragon bone. (Compendium of Materia Medica)
④ Treatment of impotence: 2 rooster livers (dried in the shade for 100 days), 1 liter of Cuscuta seeds. Grind the above two ingredients into powder, mix with quail eggs and take in pills as big as red beans, 3 times a day. (Qianjin Fang) |
