Lola’s Favourite Liver

Name: Lola’s Favourite Liver
Yield: Makes 6 Portions
Ingredients: 3 rashers unsmoked back bacon, soaked in cold water for an hour to remove salt and drained if making this for infants, then roughly chopped; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 small onion, finely chopped; 250 g/9 oz chicken livers, cleaned and roughly chopped; big pinch of thyme, roughly chopped; 4 sage leaves, roughly chopped; 2–3 tablespoons full-fat milk; 25 g/1 oz unsalted butter; 750 g/1 lb 10 oz floury potatoes, peeled and cubed

Preparation info

Makes
6
Portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

Ok, it doesn’t sound too appetising, but Lola used to adore this. And all that iron is a good thing. Bacon adds more flavour, as does sage.

Ingredients

750 g/1 lb 10 oz floury potatoes, peeled and cubed
25

Starter
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Put the potatoes in a pan of cold water, bring to the boil, then simmer until soft, about 15 minutes. Drain, return to the pan and leave to steam dry for 10 minutes. Mix in the butter and milk, then pass through a ricer and set aside. (Do not blitz the mashed potato in a blender or food processor or it will become like glue.)

Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat, a