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Chicken Liver in Pregnancy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Recipes from chicken liver
To extract from the liver the maximum of useful and tasty, it must be prepared skillfully. It's not difficult, but you need to take into account some of the nuances:
- add necessary and do not spoil the taste with superfluous ingredients
- prepare for a short time to save vitamins, trace elements
- enrich the dish with taste and nutrition, combining with vegetables, sour-milk products, nuts, greens
- use olive oil.
Cook the chicken liver for 10-15 minutes. Willingness is checked by piercing: if a clear juice appears, the product is ready.
We offer several recipes for cooking chicken liver.
Liver with champignons
Wash the champignons large cut, fry in oil (8 minutes).
In another frying pan, fry onion cut into half rings (4 min.).
Add the liver to the onions, stirring (6 min.).
Add chopped hot pepper without seeds, soy sauce (4min.).
Add mushrooms, olives, coriander.
After 2 minutes. To serve on the table.
Liver in sour cream
600 grams of liver wash, dry, cut into 4 parts (for 4 servings).
Chop onion, fry in butter until golden brown.
Add the liver, salt, pepper, sour cream, stew for two or three minutes.
Serve with garnish to taste, decorate with greens.
Delicate liver with onion
The washed liver is cut into oblong slices.
Stir with marinade (honey with lemon juice).
Onion half-rings fry over medium heat for 10 minutes.
Add the pickled liver, salt, pepper, bay leaf, stir (6 - 8 minutes).
Insist under the lid for five minutes and serve to the table.
Liver in batter
Rinse the liver, salt, pepper (500 g).
Egg whipped with pepper and salt, to flour.
Fry in a hot frying pan, dipping each slice in batter.
For golden crust fry for 5 - 7 minutes on each side.
The dish must be served hot.
Liver with Vegetables
This dish is two in one, and it's prepared very simply and very quickly.
Fry chicken liver with chunks.
Stroke onions with carrots.
Mix everything, add salt, seasoning.
Is the chicken liver useful for pregnancy?
Any liver, including chicken, is rich in many substances necessary for nutrition of people of different ages and sex. For the mother organism, which is about to endure and give birth to a healthy young person, the benefit is that this product
- contains a protein, similar in composition to chicken fillet
- rich in folic acid, which affects the circulatory and immune systems of the pregnant, intrauterine fetal development
- A 100-gram serving satisfies the daily dose of iron - a component of hemoglobin
- has a positive effect on gastrointestinal activity
- contains natural acids and vitamin A, especially valuable for pregnant women.
Chicken liver during pregnancy is recommended and because in comparison with other species it is less caloric, contains less cholesterol and is easily digested.
Choose a product should be very carefully, paying attention to the surface, consistency, color, presence of impurities, foreign odors and impurities. It is ideal to buy chicken liver during pregnancy from poultry, which is fed with natural fodders - "for yourself".
Despite this argument, some obstetrician-gynecologists strongly advise their patients to eat meat dishes from this product.
Benefits of chicken liver in pregnancy
Chicken liver in the menu of a woman while waiting for a child is a source of very necessary, sometimes irreplaceable substances. Regular consumption of chicken liver during pregnancy is a pledge of well-being and mother's health, proper development and timely birth of a baby.
A delicate, delicious product, which is the chicken liver, enriches the diet with many dishes that any hostess can cook. A properly prepared product supplies the female body
- animal proteins and essential amino acids
- vitamins A, B, C, PP
- iron (prevention of anemia)
- zinc (provides a hormonal balance)
- potassium, sodium, selenium, other minerals
- useful organic acids.
Many doctors recommend chicken liver during pregnancy to all women without restrictions.
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Harm of chicken liver in pregnancy
Despite the unconditional usefulness of the chicken liver, during pregnancy some gynecologists do not advise its use. Harmful qualities, in the opinion of such opponents, are tied to its function of a physiological "filter". After all, the liver cleanses the blood of man and animals from everything superfluous, accumulating harmful stuff in its parenchyma.
It is especially risky to use chicken liver in pregnancy, if the poultry was grown by the so-called intensive method, using in the diet dubious for the health of feed and chemical additives. This fattening provides for the preventive use of antibiotics, which also accumulate in livestock production.
However, opponents opponents suggest weighty arguments in favor of the liver. Here they are:
- together with bile, all harmful is excreted outside;
- the human liver is also a powerful filter, able to get rid of excess and neutralize the harmful;
- You can use organic products, grown at home.
Excess vitamin A is dangerous at an early stage of pregnancy: it can cause defects in the development of the child.
In case of doubt in quality, the liver should be excluded from the future mother's diet.