Chicken hearts are a popular and affordable offal. A variety of dishes are prepared from it, from salads to soups and casseroles.
Hearts are combined with absolutely all vegetables and groups.
Dishes from them are tasty, satisfying, and they are easy to prepare.
If you use a slow cooker, then everything turns out indecently simple. Will we cook?
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
Before use, the hearts are washed, adjacent tubes that have an unpleasant appearance are removed. Then you need to extract the blood clot, which is located in the center of the product. You can simply press on the heart with effort and squeeze. If you plan to cut the pieces, then you can do it right away, then rinse the inside of the blood residue.
Soups, stews are cooked from hearts in a slow cooker, stewed and fried. Often offal is combined with sour cream, mayonnaise. They make the hearts softer and softer.
How to supplement the dishes:
• vegetables (absolutely any);
• mushrooms;
• rice, buckwheat and other cereals;
• pasta.
Any spices are suitable for this offal; you can lay your favorite seasonings, sauces, herbs without restriction. In a slow cooker, it takes about an hour to cook a heart dish. The by-product can be immediately boiled, stewed or subjected to preliminary frying in oil.
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker with tomato
The recipe for a simple, low-calorie, but very tasty dish of chicken hearts in a slow cooker. It is combined with different side dishes. Tomato paste can be replaced with fresh tomatoes or ketchup.
Ingredients
• 2 onion heads;
• 0.8 kg of hearts;
• 1 spoon of pasta;
• 500 ml of water;
• 2 carrots;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 3-4 branches of dill;
• spices.
Cooking
1. At the washed hearts we remove all unnecessary, cut in half, rinse inside.
2. Cut the vegetables. We put in a slow cooker. Fry onions and carrots until rosy. The mode of frying or baking.
3. Add the paste or grated tomato, fry until the color changes.
4. We spread previously processed hearts, pour in prescription water.
5. Salt, pepper, season with any spices immediately.
6. Close, turn on the "Extinguishing". Cooking for 50 minutes.
7. Open, add dill, laurel, turn off the slow cooker, let the hearts brew for half an hour.
Chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker
For tender chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker you will need a dairy product with a fat content of at least 15%. Tomato paste is added at will, you can cook this dish without it.
Ingredients
• 2 onions;
• 0.7 kg of hearts;
• 0.2 kg of sour cream;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• 1 spoon of tomato paste;
• carrots.
Cooking
1. We chop the vegetables with large straws, put them in the multicooker bowl.
2. We wash the hearts. It is not necessary to cut, you can only make a small cut and rinse inside. Fold on the vegetables from above.
3. Prepare the fill. To do this, add paste to sour cream, or do without it. Pour a glass of water, throw salt, you can add different seasonings.
4. Pour the sour cream sauce into the hearts, close the slow cooker and leave the dish to stew for an hour.
5. We take 50 ml of water and dilute the flour in it, stir it so that no lumps appear.
6. Pour flour slurry into a slow cooker, stir.
7. Let the sauce thicken a couple of minutes. At this time, you can throw greens, laurel, garlic. Turn off.
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker in Bulgarian
The recipe for bell peppers. To make the chicken hearts in the slow cooker juicy and tender, it is advisable to marinate the main product in advance.
Ingredients
• 3 bell peppers;
• 0.8 kg of hearts;
• 2 carrots;
• 100 ml of soy sauce;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 onion heads;
• butter;
• 2 tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Washed and cut into two parts of the heart pour soy sauce. Stir and leave for an hour. You can marinate in advance and leave in the refrigerator.
2. Peel the onions and carrots, cut into strips.
3. Pour the oil into the multicooker, four tablespoons is enough. Turn on the frying.
4. Lay vegetables and fry for about ten minutes.
5. Add the pickled hearts.
6. Then we throw the pepper cut into pieces.
7. Grate the tomatoes and put them in the dish too.
8. Add half a glass of water. If you need gravy, you can add more.
9. Close and simmer the hour.
10. Put the spices 10 minutes before the end of cooking. Salt gently, as the hearts were pickled in soy sauce.
Eggplant chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker
A variant of a delicious dish of chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker. It is cooked with eggplant, but zucchini can also be used.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of hearts;
• 0.3 kg of eggplant;
• 2 onion heads;
• 220 ml sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 30 ml of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplant into small pieces, the size of a whole heart. Sprinkle with salt, leave bitterness to exit.
2. Turn on the multicooker for frying mode, add oil or any fat.
3. Put the hearts in the butter, can be cut into two parts. Fry a quarter of an hour.
4. Onion cut into strips or half rings, send to the hearts, let it fry a little.
5. We wash the eggplant slices from salt, squeeze and run into the slow cooker.
6. Add sour cream, garlic, stir.
7. Close, rearrange the fire extinguishing mode.
8. Cook for another half hour. Then you need to try the dish. If there is not enough salt from the eggplant, then you need to add. You can season the dish with any spices.
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker with potatoes
The option of the first or second dish, it all depends on the amount of liquid added. From hearts with potatoes you can make soup with rich broth or thick stew.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of hearts;
• 1 carrot;
• 40 ml of oil;
• 6-8 potatoes;
• 1 onion head;
• 1 tomato;
• 0.5 bunch of greenery;
• spices;
• 1 sweet pepper.
Cooking
1. We wash the hearts, remove the tubes and each cut lengthwise into four parts.
2. Pour the oil into the multicooker, turn on the baking.
3. Cut the carrots into strips, and put the onion in the oil as well. Fry until half cooked.
4. Add chopped hearts, cook with vegetables for 15 minutes.
5. Add grated or just cut into small pieces tomato.
6. Peel the potatoes, cut the tubers into small pieces and throw them into the slow cooker too.
7. Now you need to add water. For thick stew one or two glasses is enough.
8. If you need to cook a rich soup, then the liquid should cover the products by 2 centimeters.
9. Salt immediately, throw the Bulgarian pepper, cut into cubes. You can add black pepper and any spices.
10. Stir, close and simmer until the potatoes are ready, about 40 minutes. Do not forget to rearrange the program.
11. Cut the greens, toss in the dish, add the laurel and you're done!
Chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker with mushrooms
The recipe for incredibly delicious chicken hearts in sour cream in a slow cooker with champignons. The dish is suitable for any side dishes.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of hearts;
• 0.3 kg of champignons;
• 0.2 kg of onions;
• 0.3 kg of sour cream;
• black pepper, laurel, greens;
• 30 ml of oil grows;
• 30 grams of oil drain.
Cooking
1. Wash the mushrooms, cut into pieces.
2. Pour mushrooms into a slow cooker, pour in vegetable oil. We fry on the appropriate program before evaporating all the liquid.
3. Add onion, cook another five minutes.
4. We cut the hearts into halves, rinse and toss to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Add the butter, wait until the piece melts.
6. Spread the recipe sour cream.
7. Close, turn on the quenching mode and cook for half an hour.
8. Salt, add black pepper, stir and cook for another 15-20 minutes, at the end we season with herbs, throw laurel.
Chicken hearts in a multicooker with buckwheat
The recipe for a hearty meal of chicken hearts in a slow cooker with buckwheat. Such porridge can be served on the second or cooked for dinner. A dish with rice is prepared in the same way, only the cereal needs to be washed well with cold water several times.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of hearts;
• 2 glasses of buckwheat;
• 2 onions;
• 60 ml of oil;
• 2 carrots;
• 4 glasses of water;
• spices.
Cooking
1. We cut the hearts in half or four parts, fry with oil in the baking mode for a quarter of an hour.
2. Add onions and carrots as soon as all the water has evaporated from the hearts. Cut vegetables into arbitrary pieces. Fry with hearts until golden brown.
3. Buckwheat washed, sorted and fall asleep in a slow cooker.
4. Pour salted water, season with spices.
5. Close and cook on pilaf or buckwheat.
6. After the signal does not need to be opened immediately, you can let the dish brew. It will be tastier.
Chicken hearts in a slow cooker - useful tips and tricks
• Offal does not tolerate rapid defrosting, and even more so the use of a microwave oven for this purpose. Such devices have a bad effect on taste, make the product dry. It is advisable not to defrost the hearts in the heat, it is better to shift in advance to the lower shelf of the refrigerator.
• The hearts themselves do not contain fat and are quite lean. They can be supplemented with fatty foods: butter, mayonnaise, sour cream, various sauces, if you are not losing weight. Dishes with such additives are chic.
• Hearts in a slow cooker can be simply boiled. In this form, the product is used for salads, further frying and baking. Hearts are simply washed, laid in a slow cooker and cooked on the soup program for 30-40 minutes. For aroma, roots, laurel, peas of pepper can be added to the broth.
• Heart preparedness is determined in the same way as meat. It is enough to pierce the offal with a sharp object and evaluate the released juice. In the finished product, it is light, transparent, without an anemone.
