Peri-peri chicken livers – An appetising starter for the family

Having three-course dinner plans? Start a perfect evening with this peri-peri chicken livers recipe. Ready in only 30 minutes, it is a tantalising recipe that will make your lick your plate afterwards.

This delicious recipe smothers the chicken livers in an appetising peri-peri sauce. This sauce compliments the chicken livers excellently and is even better when soaked up with crusty bread.

The best part is that you can prepare this easy peri-peri chicken livers recipe in almost no time. This leaves you with plenty of time to prepare the remaining dishes of your three-course meal.

This recipe includes three to four tablespoons of peri-peri sauce. If you love your food really hot, you may want to increase this. On the flip side, you can also decrease the quantity of peri-peri sauce if you like a milder version of this dish.

Remember to sprinkle your dish with parsley before serving for taste and also to add some beautiful colour to your dish. Enjoy!

Peri-peri chicken livers recipe

4 from 10 votes

Recipe by Carla Zinkfontein Course: StarterCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Total time

30

minutes

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons 2 butter

• 500 g 500 chicken livers cleaned and trimmed

• 3 cloves 3 garlic, crushed

• 3-4 tablespoons 3-4 peri-peri sauce

• juice of 1 lemon

• ½ cup ½ cream

• salt and pepper to taste

• chopped parsley to serve

• crusty bread to serve

Method

• In a very hot skillet/frying pan, melt the butter and fry the chicken livers until golden brown on both sides.
• Add the garlic and peri-peri sauce and allow to fry for another minute until fragrant then add the lemon juice and cream.
• Season with salt and pepper and allow to simmer for 5 – 7 minutes.
• Serve with crusty bread.

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