Chicken Liver

[Anonymous]

Spaghetti Caruso -- use chicken liver in a pasta sauce with tomato sauce, bell peppers, onions and mushrooms.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I found another way to get the nutrients from the liver without actually having to eat it. I have been making a lot of bone broths recently and I read that you can just dump in the liver at the last hour of the broth and it will pretty much absorb the nutrients. After you simmer, then you just dump the liver and all other bones out. I tried it lasts night and I couldn't taste the liver at all in the broth this morning. I hope that I'm really getting the nutrients from the liver this way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just fried up a bunch of chicken livers the other day with some onions. I'm trying to eat more liver for fertility reasons. It does not taste good and I'm wondering if anybody has ideas about making it taste better at this point or freezing it and grating it into something else. Can I make pate with cooked liver?

Don't fry it like beef liver. Fry it like fried chicken. Dip it in egg and roll it in flour and pepper, then fry it. You can buy it at Lee's Chicken if you have one near you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been trying and I can't figure out why they wouldn't taste good to you. My mind is thinking, what's not good about fried livers & onions? The only thing I can think is that you didn't salt and pepper. That should spritz them right up. (For that matter, you could also spritz them with some lemon.)

I'm the food-processor-pate suggester, though--that's the way I'd go.

If a gall bladder was left attached or leaked into the livers, they will taste EXTREMELY bitter. It's really gross. I love fried chicken liver, but the one time I got a bite of gall bladder was terrible.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Good idea! Will try it next time.

[Anonymous]

I love liver myself but I question its worth as a health food. It is a filtering organ, it is bound to be chock full of whatever toxins the animal was ever exposed to. Not sure I would eat a bunch of it hoping to get pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love liver myself but I question its worth as a health food. It is a filtering organ, it is bound to be chock full of whatever toxins the animal was ever exposed to. Not sure I would eat a bunch of it hoping to get pregnant.

+1

I was just about to say the same. I love chicken liver, but I eat it rarely. Mostly because it is a known source of toxins. I hear beef liver is less toxic. However, I wouldn't eat either as fertility food.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I think there are two schools of thought on this --I've been reading a lot of fertility books and I keep seeing liver mentioned as a fertility food as well as cod liver oil. However, they do acknowledge that some people think that there are toxins in the liver due to the filtering function that it serves, but they say that grass-fed should be fine. At the end of the day, not sure which is right, but thought I would give it a try since I've read about it multiple times from different sources.

[Anonymous]

I don't eat those anymore but when I did, my mom made it with soy sauce and hot pepper to cover that livery taste. Or add them to spaghetti sauce like minced meat, like a Bolognese style. Or even add curry.
Used to eat chicken gizzards too-is that good for you?