How to cook hearts stewed in sour cream

Byproducts can hardly be called a delicacy. But there are a lot of dishes, the taste of which is not inferior to meat. A vivid example is the hearts stewed in sour cream. This dish is attractive not only for the excellent taste and expressive texture of the main ingredient, but also for the presence of a wonderful sauce that is combined with most cereal, vegetable and macaroni garnishes.

This dish is perfect for a family dinner, turning it into a small holiday of taste. Try to cook with our recipe hearts stewed in sour cream, at least once, and this recipe will necessarily take a worthy place in your family cookbook.

Useful by-products

Nutritionists have calculated that in 100 grams of stewed chicken or turkey hearts contains about 17 g of protein. A lot of it and sour cream. This dish is perfect for the menu of athletes gaining muscle mass, and for all those who prefer natural healthy foods. You can enter this treat in the menu of children over two years old (until this time most dieticians and pediatricians do not recommend introducing children to offal).

Hearts stewed in sour cream are rich not only in protein. As in other dishes from by-products, they contain a lot of iron and calcium, as well as vitamins.

Preliminary preparation

For this dish, chicken hearts will do, but you can cook it from turkeys. Try to give preference to chilled, not frozen.

Before you cook the hearts, stewed in sour cream, soak them in cold water for half an hour. The water will darken because of the blood left from the vessels, but the gravy will be beautiful and light.

If you use turkey hearts, cut them along into 4 pieces. Chicken can be cut in half or cook as much as you like.

Recipe for stewed hearts in sour cream and onions

The basic recipe for this dish is quite simple. For him you will need the following:

• Hearts - 1 kg;
• Onions - 1-1,5 pcs .;
• Butter - 25 g;
• Flour - 1,3 tsp;
• Sour cream - 2/3 cup;
• Water - 100 ml;
• Spices and salt at your discretion.

Lightly fry onion in finely chopped onion. Add the hearts to it, stir and cover. The dish will begin to be stewed.

The extinguishing time can be different, depending on the power of the burner and the used dishes. On average, the process will take about 20 minutes. Do not forget to stir the mixture so that it does not burn out. If the fat becomes too hot, add a little butter.

As soon as the hearts turn dark and stop the red juice, dilute the flour in the water and add it to the saucepan. Komochkov should not remain, otherwise they are brewed in a gravy. Stir, add sour cream and lower the fire to medium. If the sauce seems too thick (especially when using home-made sour cream), pour water or broth to the desired consistency. At the very end of the cooking, add to the hearts stewed in sour cream, salt and spices - as much as you like.

Add color and taste

The proposed recipe is the most popular. But you can add to it one or two new components each time to get different tastes.

With this dish, fine grated carrots are fine. It not only makes the sauce more dense and sweet, but also turns its color into light golden. For a specified number of products, one medium size is sufficient.

You can add to the hearts of chicken, stewed in sour cream, champignons. Get a really festive dish. Mushrooms and by-products can be taken in arbitrary proportions, for example 500 g.

Ripe aromas will give a bell of Bulgarian pepper. Especially good looking small cubes of different colors.

In the sauce you can add a couple spoonfuls of tomato paste, soy sauce, French mustard or grated parmesan. This will create an interesting structure of the sauce itself, and the taste will add a pleasant accent.

A fragrant oriental spice will suit this dish, for example hops-suneli and saffron. You can use traditional for the dishes of poultry grass: rosemary, dried basil, dill, thyme.

Garnishing and serving to the table

Just look how appetizing the hearts look, stewed in sour cream! The recipe with the photo allows you to clearly see that they can be served almost any garnish: mashed potatoes, buckwheat and wheat porridge, pasta, grilled vegetables. With this dish, salads from young vegetables, pickled mushrooms, homemade pickles perfectly match. Do not forget about the delicious bread, which is so well suited to any dish with thick sour creamy gravy.

If the format of your feast implies adherence to the rules of etiquette, serve table knives and forks. In a relaxed home environment, of course, you can do without knives.

Serving hearts with sour cream is done portion by piece, placing the main ingredient on a slab over the garnish or next to it.