Chicken Liver Pasta - Anyone know this recipe?
At some point in the past few weeks, I saw a recipe for a pasta dish that included chicken livers, carmelized onions and red wine. Probably more ingredients, but that's what I recall.
This might have been an Iron Chef episode, or it could have been a very strange dream...I looked through the recipes here (I was thinking it might have been in the Nasty Bits) but I didn't see it anywhere.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I found recipes online for a chicken liver and mushroom recipe, which is fairly close, but none of those came from websites I go to. And I'm pretty sure there were onions involved, because I was thinking that it was an interesting play on regular liver and onions.
If I can't find the recipe, I'm going to wing in tomorrow...I already bought the chicken livers. But if anyone knows what I'm talking about, or where I saw the recipe, I'd appreciate some hints.
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7 Comments:
Bigoli con fegatini di pollo--bigoli pasts with chicken livers--was on Lidia's Italy a couple of weeks ago. I did a quick search and didn't find anything more than references to the recipe, so you'll probably have to go to the library or Borders or Amazon.
betteirene at 11:18PM on 10/12/09
I picked uo a good sounding recipe on cooksister.com not long ago. I haven't tried it, but it sounds good.
suegsf at 2:57AM on 10/13/09
Betteirene beat me to it - I have the book Lidia's Italy at home and yes, it's that recipe. True it isn't available online so you'd have to go buy it. I wish I had the book here at work, I'd send it to you annotated!
alosha7777 at 1:04PM on 10/13/09
I found a similar recipe in a Mario Batali book, and it sounds pretty good. I haven't watched any Lidia episodes recently...I'm still wracking my brain to think of where I saw the recipe, Usually if I want to make something, I hunt up the recipe right away, so it might have been on something like Iron Chef where there are no recipes.
I've got one of Lidia's books, but the recipe isn't in the one I have. Of course not. I'll probably go with the Batali one. I have all the ingredients for it, so that's good.
dbcurrie at 1:41PM on 10/13/09
Spaghetti a la Caruso!!! MMMMmmmm.
therealchiffonade at 4:09PM on 10/13/09
@chiff, I've got that one copied now. Looks good.
The one I made used dried mushrooms and just a bit of tomato paste, but all the recipes I've seen are are pretty similar.
Funny thing, but as we were eating, both DH and I were musing that it seemed more German than Italian, and it would have been interesting to eat it with some rye bread. And then I was thinking that instead of the fettucini that I used, it would have been good with spaetzle. And maybe some caraway seeds in the sauce. And lots more mushrooms, and a few more onions. And a side of sauerkraut.
dbcurrie at 9:39PM on 10/13/09
You'd certainly Germanize it by adding those sides. I've made it a couple of times and it didn't strike me as particularly German. I'll admit that chicken livers aren't an average Italian ingredient. I guess Caruso was ahead of the curve!
therealchiffonade at 12:33PM on 10/14/09