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Grilled liver in kidney sauce
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Ingredients
Serves 4
- 125g/4½ oz butter
- 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 2 large onions, finely sliced
- 1 finely chopped shallot
- 2 lamb’s kidneys, trimmed and diced
- 4tbsp cider
- 275ml/½ pt chicken stock
- 2tbsp chopped parsley
- 4 slices of liver
- 4 x 2cm/¾“ thick discs black pudding
- Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Heat a sauté pan until medium hot, add 25g/1oz of the butter, and one tbsp of the rapeseed oil. When melted, add the onions and cook over a gentle heat for 15 minutes until softs but not browened.
- Meanwhile, heat a frying pan until hot, add 25g/1oz of the butter and the shallot and cook until just softened. Remove and set aside in a bowl then add another 25g/1oz of butter to the pan.
- When foaming, add the diced kidneys and fry until browned but not cooked all the way through. Remove and set aside with the shallots.
- Add the cider and cook until just slightly reduced then add the chicken stock and simmer until reduced by half then beat in the last of the butter to thicken.
- Return the cooked shallots, kidney and any resting juices to the pan and heat through, then stir in the parsley and season with salt and black pepper.
- Meanwhile, rub the slices of liver with the last of the rapeseed oil. Heat a griddle pan until very hot, add the liver and cook for one minute on each side until browned but pink inside still.
- Cook the black pudding on the griddle at the same time.
- Serve the liver with the onions, and kidney sauce spooned over.