Kebdah Makly

8 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 6 slices calfs or lambs liver
  • 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil plus more for frying
  • 2 tablespoons wine vinegar
  • Salt and pepper
  • Oil
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley (optional garnish)
  • 1 mild onion, very thinly sliced (optional garnish)

Directions

  1. 1
    Cut the liver into 1-inch pieces, and remove any sinews or membranes.
  2. 2
    Mix the olive oil and vinegar with salt and pepper and marinate the liver for 1 hour in this mixture.
  3. 3
    Pour the liver and its marinade into a skillet and cook over high heat for 2 or 3 minutes, turning the pieces over, until brown on the outside but still pink and juicy inside.
  4. 4
    (Liver dries very quickly and is not good overcooked.)
  5. 5
    Serve hot or cold, sprinkled with lemon juice, and garnished with chopped parsley and onion slices if you like.
  6. 6
    A Moroccan way is to add a good sprinkling of paprika, and ground cumin and coriander to the frying oil.
  7. 7
    For a Turkish Albanian-style liver, cut the liver in small cubes, salt them, and dredge in flour.
  8. 8
    Deep-fry in about 1/2 inch very hot sunflower or vegetable oil for 12 minutes until crisp and brown.
  9. 9
    Lift out with a slotted spoon and serve sprinkled with ground chili pepper or flakes, or with paprika.
  10. 10
    Accompany with sliced onions rubbed with salt and sprinkled with 2 teaspoons sumac.

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