How to prepare beef heart?

[Zoeanne]

I read that beef heart is quite good to eat during late pregnancy, so I picked up half a heart at the farmer's market. Now I am not sure what to do with it! Ideas?

[Belletheacd]

I leave it raw and slice it really thin across the grain, and then marinate it in toasted sesame oil, naturally brewed soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and green onion for about half a day. Then I make brown rice and I take the raw heart, rice, grated carrot, cilantro, and pickled ginger and wrap it all up in nori, hand roll style. My kids LOVE this!

Organs to me taste too...well...organy when cooked, so I eat them all raw (except sweetbreads).

hth

[Magelet]

I like heart after a nice soak in vinegar (with some spices). DP usually does a spin off the NT heart kebab recipe, but instead of making kebabs, stir fries it and we have it over rice. we should get some heart again. It's yummy

(there are a few parts that can be a bit chewy, but it's very tasty. a bit... bloody/iron-y without the vinegar soak.)

[MamaMamaMama!]

I generally just blend up heart in the blender and add it to my ground beef, because it was too bloody for us otherwise, but I've never tried marinating it.

[mnnice]

I grew up eating it baked, cooled, sliced thinly and put on a sandwich. I am not sure if I'd like it now that ways, but that's how my dad always made it.

[bethanydykman]

We are just beginning to eat organ meats around here, but I had the heart ground up and just sauteed about a pound of it with 4 lbs. of ground beef. I was afraid the flavor would be detectable so I used a lot of the ground beef! We had it in chili tonight and it was a hit. I could faintly smell it in the pot, but not really taste it while eating.

[chattyprincess]

OMG..Thank you for this thread! I wanted a great way to start to eat organ meat and was at a complete loss I just kept wondering if we mixed it with groundbeef could we detect it? My plan for the summer is to have it in hamburgers. So heart and liver are good...anything else?