Sautéed Chicken Livers with Raisins and Pine Nuts

Name: Sautéed Chicken Livers with Raisins and Pine Nuts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps butter; 177 milliliters canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock; 567 grams chicken livers, each cut in half; 3 Tbsps chopped flat-leaf parsley; 2 teaspoons flour; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 0 teaspoons fresh-ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 79 milliliters pine nuts; 79 milliliters raisins; 1 teaspoons salt; 177 milliliters dry vermouth or dry white wine

Sautéed Chicken Livers with Raisins and Pine Nuts might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 50% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 26g of protein, 27g of fat, and a total of 439 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up salt, olive oil, chicken livers, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat the oven to 35

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Toast the pine nuts in the oven until they are golden brown, about 8 minutes.

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Pine Nuts

Toast

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In a small stainless-steel saucepan, combine the raisins, broth, and vermouth. Bring to a boil and simmer until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 8 minutes. Set aside.

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Vermouth

Raisins

Broth

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Sauce Pan

In a large frying pan, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter with 1 tablespoon of the oil over moderately high heat. Season the livers with 1/4 teaspoon of the salt and 1/8 teaspoon of the pepper and cook, in two batches if necessary, until almost done, about 3 minutes. The livers should still be quite pink inside.

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Butter

Pepper

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Remove them from the pan.

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Frying Pan

Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon butter to the pan and reduce the heat to moderately low.

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Butter

Cooking Oil

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Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.

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Garlic

Add the flour and cook, stirring, for 15 seconds longer. Stir in the raisin-and-vermouth mixture and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Bring to a simmer, scraping the bottom of the pan to dislodge any brown bits.

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Vermouth

Pepper

Raisins

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Frying Pan

Add the livers and any accumulated juices, the pine nuts, and the parsley and simmer until the livers are just done, about 1 minute longer.

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Pine Nuts

Parsley

Wine Recommendation: Try matching the savory tastes of this Sicilian-flavored dish with a rustic red wine that hails from the same region. Or serve the easy-to-find Salice Salentino from Apulia, also in Southern Italy.

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