Chicken Livers Toscani Recipes

TUSCAN CHICKEN-LIVER CROSTINI

Steps:

• Rinse the chicken livers under running water and pat dry with paper towel. Cut away any greenish discolored parts. Cut the onion in half and slice each half thinly. Mash the garlic with the flat blade of a knife and chop coarsely.
• Heat the olive oil in a saute pan. Add onion and garlic and cook gently until onion is softened. Add chicken livers. Turn heat up to medium and cook briskly until livers are thoroughly browned.
• Add white wine and chicken stock. Lower heat and simmer approximately 20 minutes, until livers are cooked through. Mash the livers with a fork, or pass them through a food mill to puree them. The texture should be more grainy than smooth. Mix with capers, taste for seasoning, and add salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve with the sliced bread, either plain or toasted.

TUSCAN CHICKEN LIVERS

Steps:

• Wash chicken livers under cold running water. Dry well, and season with salt and pepper. Dust chicken livers with flour; set aside.
• In a large nonstick saute pan, combine olive oil, onion, sage, chopped garlic, red-pepper flakes, capers, and anchovies. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for 3 minutes. Add chicken livers, one piece at a time. Cook, covered, until evenly browned, about 3 minutes on each side. Add Vin Santo, scraping the brown bits from the bottom of the saute pan. Cook until the wine has reduced by half, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in tomato, and cook, stirring occasionally, about 6 minutes. (The dish should be slightly soupy. If it starts to become dry, add a little water.) Remove the saute pan from the heat, and stir in parsley.
• Rub the toasts with the whole garlic clove. Drizzle with olive oil, and season with black pepper. Spoon the livers over the toasts, and serve immediately.

CHICKEN LIVERS TOSCANI

Steps:

• Heat 4 tablespoons oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until soft, about 10 minutes. Add livers, capers, anchovies and pepper flakes, and cook until livers are lightly browned. Add wine and cook until only a few tablespoons of liquid remain, about 15 minutes. Transfer mixture to a food processor, and add remaining 3 tablespoons oil. Pulse until mixture is blended but still lumpy. Transfer to a small bowl, and adjust salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate until needed.

CHICKEN TOSCANA

Steps:

• Earlier in day or prior to cooking chicken:.
• Combine port, and broths in saucepan and cook down over medium heat until almost half. Remove 4 ounces of mixture, let cool and add 1 T flour to these 4 ounces until thoroughly dissolved.
• Return to pan and cook over medium low until thickened.
• Just before serving on chicken, add chestnuts and heat through.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Dredge chicken cutlets in flour.
• Heat non stick fry pan (use PAM if necessary).
• Add butter and oil.
• Saute cutlets on each side over medium high heat until lightly browned (can let rest covered a few minutes as you add chestnuts to port gravy mixture).
• Pour thickened port gravy over cutlets and serve.