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Venetian-style beef liver recipe

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This Venetian-Style Beef Liver recipe, or alla Veneziana, highlights the rich flavour of ox liver. While not as creamy as calves’ liver, it’s incredibly delicious when lightly floured, fried in butter, and combined with vinegar and meltingly tender onions for a truly flavourful dish. For another take, don’t miss my Thai-Style Beef Liver recipe.

Serves 2

Ingredients

Method

  1. In a heavy frying pan, melt 40g of the butter over medium heat.
  2. Add the onion and bay leaf, sautéing until the onions are very soft and beginning to colour.
  3. Pour in the vinegar and let it evaporate completely before adding the wine and stock.
  4. Reduce the liquids rapidly until syrupy.
  5. Season the mixture and transfer it to a bowl.
  6. Pat the liver dry, cut it into wide strips, and season with salt and pepper.
  7. Clean the pan and melt the remaining butter over medium heat.
  8. Fry the liver briskly until browned on both sides, turning once. It should remain just pink inside.
  9. Return the onions to the pan, mixing well, and stir in the parsley.
  10. Serve immediately, either on its own or with a little wet polenta.

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Valentine Warner is a chef, food writer, business owner and broadcaster, with a deep interest in nature, travel and provincial food. He describes his cooking style as ‘International Grandmother’ and combines his strong sense of storytelling with his infectious love of cookery. Val has a deep respect and understanding of ingredients, both wild and cultivated, and has the instinctive ability to rustle up hearty and wholesome meals from whatever’s available. Val is an avid proponent of native food sources, and finds common ground with Swaledale in their work to deliver top-notch meat, within a truthful, ethical and high welfare framework. Originally a trained portrait painter, Val has also authored 5 cookbooks, managed his own catering company and is a co-owner of Taqueria, a West London Mexican cafe. Val is also a partner in the Hepple Distillery in Northumberland and Holmen Lofoten hotel on arctic Norway’s Lofoten island.