Veal Liver Venician Style
[La sila alla venezianna]
Comments: Serve with vegetables or pasta.
Demi-glaze is a brown sauce, flavored with wine if used as a base in making other sauces, simmered slowly to reduce its volume and concentrate its flavor.
  • 12 ounces [340 g] fresh veal liver
  • All purpose flour, to coat liver
  • Vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons [30 mL] white wine
  • 1/3 cup [80 mL] demi-glace [demi-glaze]
  • 1 medium onion, cut into strips and browned
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • Finely chopped fresh parsley, to decorate
  • Pat veal liver dry, cut into thin strips.
  • Coat liver strips with flour then transfer into and shake off excess.
  • Heat oil into a frying pan, over high heat.
  • Sear liver strips until golden brown; carefully discard oil.
  • Stir in white wine, demi-glace, browned onion strips, salt and pepper.
  • Lower heat and cook for 1 minute more.
  • Serve, sprinkled with finely chopped fresh parsley.