Calves Liver With Bacon And Capers Recipes

CALF'S LIVER WITH CAPERS

Steps:

• Sprinkle the liver slices with salt and pepper, and dredge the slices in flour. Shake off the excess.
• Heat the oil in a nonstick skillet large enough to hold the slices in one layer. Add the slices and cook about 1 1/2 minutes on one side. Turn them over and cook about 1 1/2 minutes on the other side.
• Transfer the slices to a warm platter and wipe the skillet.
• Heat the butter until it starts to brown slightly. Add the capers and cook about 1 minute over relatively high heat. Add the tomatoes and cook about 30 seconds. Add the vinegar and stir. Pour the sauce over the liver and sprinkle with parsley.

CALF'S LIVER WITH BACON AND ONIONS

Steps:

• Soak liver in milk in a bowl 20 minutes.
• While liver is soaking, cook bacon in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderate heat, turning over occasionally, until crisp. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain and reserve 2 1/2 tablespoons fat in skillet, transferring remaining fat to a small bowl.
• Cook onions with salt and pepper to taste in fat in skillet over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer onions to a bowl and add bacon. Keep warm, covered.
• Pat liver dry and discard milk. Stir together flour, salt, and pepper on a sheet of wax paper and dredge liver in flour mixture, shaking off excess.
• Add 1 1/2 tablespoons reserved bacon fat to skillet and heat over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté liver, turning over once, until browned but still pink inside, about 4 minutes total. Serve liver topped with onions and bacon.

CALVES' LIVER WITH BACON AND CAPERS

Steps:

• In a large baking dish, add liver and milk. Let liver soak, covered in the refrigerator, for at least 2 hours and no more than 24 hours.
• In a large cast-iron skillet, sauté bacon over medium-high heat until fat is rendered, about 5 minutes. Remove bacon from skillet. Drain off almost all the fat, and place skillet over medium heat. Add onion, and cook until caramelized, about 6 minutes. Add bacon back to skillet with capers, sage, salt, and pepper. Deglaze with wine, and cook for 2 minutes, loosening any brown bits from the bottom of the pan with a spoon. Add stock, and cook until heated through. Pour in cream, and stir to combine.
• Remove liver from milk, dredge liver in flour, and season with salt and pepper. In a cast-iron skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Cook liver for 3 minutes on each side for medium rare. Serve liver topped with cream sauce and sprinkled with parsley.

CALVES LIVER WITH BACON, SAUTEED ONIONS, AND MUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towels and reserve.
• Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a medium skillet over moderate heat. Cook shallots with salt until soft and nearly golden, about 3 minutes. Add cooked bacon, stirring briefly to rewarm. Add vinegar, turn the heat to high and reduce by half. Add stock and reduce again by half. Break remaining butter into small pieces and whisk into sauce until smooth. Whisk in mustard and remove from heat.
• Preheat grill or a dry skillet. Season liver with salt and pepper. Grill or saute in melted butter over high heat, about 3 minutes per side.
• Arrange liver over a bed of Sauteed Onions on individual serving plates and spoon on sauce. Serve immediately.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over high heat. Reduce heat. Saute onions with salt, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 15 minutes.

CALF LIVER AND ONIONS WITH BACON

Steps:

• Cook bacon in large skillet. Set cooked bacon aside, leaving as much grease as possible in skillet.
• Tear bacon in bite sized pieces.
• Cook sliced onions in grease, with a little salt and pepper, for about 15 minutes, or until limp.
• Remove onions, set aside, leaving as much grease as possible in skillet.
• Lightly salt and pepper liver slices (I cut long slices in half) and dredge heavily in flour.
• Place liver in hot grease, cooking until brown on both sides, over medium heat.
• When liver is browned, add onions, bacon pieces, and 2-3 splashes red wine vinegar.
• Salt and pepper to taste (remember, you have already used some, so go easy until you can taste it).
• Add enough water to make a gravy, barely covering the meat. Stir water to combine with other ingredients evenly.
• Cover, cook on low for 15-20 minutes. It should look like you have gravy.