Dirty Rice

I bought about a pound of chicken livers yesterday. I reserved half of it to make my favorite fried chicken livers, and used the other half for the dirty rice. It was pretty yummy. 

Dirty rice and fried chicken livers

Dirty Rice


1/2 lb chicken liver
1/3 lb ground beef or pork
1 slice bacon, chopped small
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup onion diced
1 piece garlic minced
1/4 cup green pepper
1/2 stalk celery diced
1 1/2 cup rice, I mixed basmati and wild rice
2 cup chicken broth
3 Tbsp sherry
1/4 chili pepper
Dashes of hot sauce
A pinch cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp thyme
1 bay leaf
1/4 lemon juice 
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp white pepper
2 Tbsp fresh parsley chopped
1 Tbsp green onion chopped




Rinse the chicken livers in cold water and soak for 10 minutes. Drain. Soak in buttermilk for 10 more minutes, drain. Pulse the livers in the food processor. Sauté the bacon until brown and add ground beef. Add onion, garlic, green pepper and celery continue cooking until translucent. Add chopped livers, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes. Add sherry and cook till almost all the liquid is gone, toss in rice and stir. After coating the rice with the mixture, add in chicken broth, lemon juice, bay leaf, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, hot sauce, salt, black and white pepper. I even put the actual lemon fruit in the pot after squeezing the juice. Bring it to boil and turn it to simmer, cover for 20 minutes or so. Turn off the heat and let it rest. Toss in chopped parsley and fluff it with a fork. Garnish with green onions.

Bay leaf and lemon add a nice touch

By pulsing the livers in the food processor and cook well with the sherry, you can hardly taste the strong liver flavor in the rice. You may not like how it looks in the food processor, but I recommend doing this.

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