Khoresht Jegar - Chicken LIver Stew

My love of chicken livers was only increased when I was given this quick and easy recipe by my mother-in-law back in the 80's during the Iran-Iraq war the recipe uses ingredients which we all mostly keep in the store cupboard-apart from the fresh chicken livers.

Chicken Livers

Onions-Garlic-Potatoes (New are best)

Tomatoe Puree-Tumeric

Olive oil-tablespoon of butter

Water or chicken stock about half pint

Chop the chicken livers into bit size pieces-cut your potatoes into smallish cubes- slice your onions.

Heat the olive oil in a large deep frying pan- and fry your potatoes until golden-remove from the pan.

Add the sliced onions and turmeric and fry for a couple of minutes now add the chicken livers and fry

on a high heat until sealed but not completely cooked through.Add a tablespoon of tomatoes puree or more

if needed, and stir around now add your fried potatoes the water or stock- cover the pan and cook for around 15 minutes make sure it does not run dry.

  

Chicken Ab-Ghust

Chicken Stew "Chicken Ab-Ghust"

Going to make a simple chicken stew, with yellow split peas,potatoes,tomatoes. It is really delicouse and feeds up to four.

Just a quick note about yellow split peas for the receipe. I always use the iranian ones as I find they cook but dont turn to mush.You can get them from Persian food shops.

You will need

Chicken cut into segments
Onion and if you like a glove of garlic
Yellow split peas cup full
Potatoes new are best
Tomatoes 3-4 or use all tomatoe puree
Tumeric-dried chilli-salt & lots of black pepper.

Place the chicken -onions - tumeric-salt-pepper in a pot and bring to the boil, reduce and simmer for 45 minutes.

While your simmering the chicken boil your split peas for one minute then drain.Put the yellow split peas into the pot and cook for a further 15 minutes.Then add your tomatoes (plus a teaspon of tomatoe puree)potatoes and cook until the potatoes are cook.

The way we eat it. Tip all the juice into a large bowl and the rest onto a dish. The juice is eaten as a starter,to the juice you add torn up flat bread Lavash allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1774/lavash.aspx‎.put this into the juice and eat with raw onion or pickles. Then eat the rest.

ENJOY!