Portafoglio di Maiale con Fegato di Vitello

Pork Chops Stuffed With Calf’s Liver

Preparation info
  • For

    4

    Persons
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Marcella's Italian Kitchen

By Marcella Hazan

Published 1986

  • About

I would be unable to say, in this recipe, which profits more from being cooked next to the other, the pork or the calf’s liver. The liver, enclosed within the chop, cooks to that perfect degree of tenderness and sweetness that sometimes eludes us in other preparations. And the pork acquires unexpected delicacy and succulence.

The lovely taste is matched by an equally lovely appearance when, in cutting into the pork, you find the liver, a moist, pink center for the chop. The c