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Meat & poultry

Liver

Liver is an organ meat considered offal. Cooks bake, boil, simmer, grill, sauté, stir-fry, or serve it raw, and pair it with bacon, onion, or kidney. It is also sold canned.

  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Organ
Cooked most in
Europe, Asia, The Americas
Top country
Austria
Liver, cooked

Photo: Poupou l'quourouce · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use liver

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer
  • Grill
  • Raw
  • Saute
  • Stir fry

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing liver

Sold as
Canned
Availability
Supermarkets

Around the world

Where liver is cooked

11 dishes in the catalogue use liver. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list liver among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with liver

9 of the 11 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Batiburrillo

    Paraguay

  • Leberknödel

    Austria, Germany

  • Liver stew

    Sweden

  • Rebanira itame

    Japan

  • Əzmə

    Azerbaijan

  • Iscas

    Portugal

  • Hasip

  • Liverwurst

  • Tjvjik

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include liver.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: liver in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Family

Related forms

A kind of
offal

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What liver is called

Names in 38 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    hígado · Higado

  • French

    foie

  • Italian

    fegato

  • Portuguese

    fígado

  • German

    Leber (Lebensmittel)

  • Greek

    Συκώτι (τρόφιμο)

  • Turkish

    ciğer

  • Russian

    печень · печёнка

  • Arabic

    كبد

  • Persian

    جگر · جگر (غذا)

  • Hebrew

    כבד

  • Chinese

    食用肝

Show all 38 languages

  • Armenian

    լյարդ

  • Asturian

    Fégadu

  • Basque

    gibel

  • Belarusian

    лівер

  • Cantonese

    膶

  • Catalan

    fetge

  • Czech

    játra

  • Danish

    lever

  • Esperanto

    hepataĵo

  • Estonian

    maks

  • Finnish

    maksa ruokana

  • Galician

    fígado

  • Igbo

    imeju

  • Indonesian

    hati · ati

  • Japanese

    レバー · 肝

  • Javanese

    Ati minangka panganan

  • Kazakh

    Ливер

  • Korean

    간

  • Kyrgyz

    боор

  • Slovenian

    jetra · jetrca

  • Swedish

    Lever

  • Swiss High German

    Leber

  • Tatar

    бавыр (ашамлык)

  • Ukrainian

    Печінка

  • Vietnamese

    Gan

  • Wu Chinese

    食用肝

  • Zulu

    Isibindi (Ukudla)

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1470283

Photos

Photo: Poupou l'quourouce · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons