California Farm Chicken Liver Dumpling Soup with Croutons

Name: How to cook California Farm Chicken Liver Dumpling Soup with Croutons - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, 4 cups of soup
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Chicken Liver Dumpling Soup with Croutons

The perfect student dinner dish, only an inexpensive carbon steel wok needed and an electric hot plate. This was originally an Austrian dish. After restaurant kitchens close there at night, they used to mix the leftover bread with perishable leftover meats like chicken livers, added onions and made dumplings for soup to serve the next day. At night, students could get a bowl of liver dumpling soup at the kitchen back door for 25 cents. #GoldenApron23

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, 4 cups of soup

Cooking time :

30 minutes or more

4 slices

leftover bread, bread crust removed, soaked in milk

diced onion

fresh chicken livers rinsed and dried, 1 1/2 ounces each

1 clove

elephant garlic

1 Tbs

butter or margarine

fresh farm egg or 2 Tbs milk or soy sauce

4 Tbs

chopped green, like parsley, celery, cilantro, chives, onions, swiss chard, lettuce, spinach, basil

1/4 Tsp

Pepper

1/4 Tsp

salt

4 Tbs

Croutons on top

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Rinse and dry whole chicken livers on bread. In medium hot wok, stirfry livers with Tbs margarine, butter or chicken fat, clove of garlic, diced onions and slivered greens till livers are fragrant and solid and onions are glazed over, about 10 minutes, ladle stirfry into dish.

* Step 2

Use 4 Tbs of diced breadcrust in wok to absorb any pandrippings by frying, to make croutons. Turn off heat. Set croutons aside. Set garlic clove aside for next dinner

* Step 3

Mash livers with fork, mix with onions, slivered greens, spices, stir in egg, milk or soy sauce. Dice and mix one slice of milk soaked bread at the time till you have four firm dumpling balls. Lay dumpling balls in dry wok, turn to medium heat, wait till they turn fragrant, 2 minutes.

* Step 4

Add 4 cups of cold water, bring to boil, put lid on, simmer with leftover chicken scraps till broth tastes rich, about 15 minutes. Remove scraps. If you dont have a lid, a ceramic dinner plate will work. To serve, add Tbs croutons and 4 optional drops of celeriac flavoring per cup. Enjoy.