This nutrient-dense recipe for breaded beef heart is a delicious way to easily prepare organ meats that your family will enjoy.
The benefits of organ meats were considered sacred in Traditional Societies due to the vibrant health they bestowed upon those who consumed them.
Couples trying to conceive, pregnant women, young children, and the elderly were given priority access to these extraordinary foods due to their incredible nutrient density.
In keeping with the wisdom of our ancestors, these specialty meats should be a regular feature on your family’s menu.
Bonus! They are some of the most inexpensive meat cuts you can buy!
If you only serve organ meats occasionally or not at all, it is an absolute must to take high-vitamin cod liver oil (suggested brand) or desiccated raw liver (capsules or powder) on a daily basis.
For those that have local availability of organs from pastured animals, it is quite easy to prepare them deliciously. This is especially true of heart, which is quite mild in comparison to liver.
Whatever you do, don’t throw these cuts away. At the very least, use it to prepare raw pet food.
Below is a very simple, delicious beef heart recipe to serve your family. It is provided courtesy of Laura, the happy grass-based farmer pictured below with her beautiful flock of pastured turkeys.
This is the type of person you should get to know on a first-name basis to buy meat directly from the farm.
Will this organ meats recipe pass the taste test at your dinner table?
Give it a try! Laura reports that even her husband enjoys this recipe for beef heart, and he is not an organ meat fan.
More Organ Meat Recipes to Try!
Organ meat recipes don’t have to taste terrible! Try these traditional and delicious recipes too!
- Bacon and liver pate
- Bone marrow custard
- Roasted bone marrow
- Poultry giblets recipe
- Bone marrow omelet
Breaded Beef Heart Recipe
This recipe for breaded beef heart is incredibly nutritious and won’t cause a family mutiny as it is so tasty. Easy dish for serving organ meats for dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 pound beef heart preferably grassfed
- 1 large egg beaten
- 2 tbsp expeller pressed coconut oil
- 1/4 cup sprouted flour
Instructions
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Clean the beef heart removing the valves.
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Cut into slices about 1/4″ in size.
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Dip the heart slices in the beaten egg and then dredge in sprouted flour. Use coconut flour as a low carb substitute.
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Place in a pan of hot lard or coconut oil and brown each side. Add a small amount of filtered water, cover, and simmer the breaded beef heart for 20 minutes.
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Be sure to use the drippings from your beef heart to make homemade gravy!
Recipe Notes
Substitute 2 lamb hearts for the beef heart if desired.
Substitute coconut flour for the sprouted grain flour for a grain-free dish.
Use lard instead of coconut oil for fuller flavor.
we often have our heart ground in w/our hamburger. but i do have one in the freezer. I shall try it.
@julie….I “skin” it first and cut the veins out. Cut it in 2 inch chunks. Then I marinade it in a recipe of vinegar, salt, pepper and panca peppers and either broil or fry in butter. If I don’t have time for the marinade, we eat it straight up fried in butter w salt and pepper. Oh and garlic. Marinade calls for it too. Yum
So I got a beef heart from a sister-in-law farmer of conventional cows… but nto CEFO cows or anything. Is organ meat from non-organic cows still good for me?
Kylee: As far as being healthy, you might want to recheck your sources. As a recovering vegetarian, I can assure you I have never been so healthy. Unfortunately, I was chronically short on Vitamin Bs, alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10, arginine and many other vitamins and nutrients for 35 years as I was raised a vegan and continued for years into adulthood. I have now begun to regain my health.
A great exercise to understand how healthy beef, all other meats (and especially liver and other offal) is to research the best food sources for each vitamin B, for selenium and vitamin A. I did this last night to be able to focus in on foods dense especially in the nutrients I need. Over and over, for almost ever nutrient we need, meat dominates the top 10 best food sources. Non meat sources are a far distant second. Would have to spend way more on veggies to get the same nutrition from them as from meat! So, save money, be healthier and learn about meat and offal! I had to learn the hard way with many health problems for being a second generation vegetarian/vegan but am recovering now. I used a number of resources for the top foods for various nutrients including Whole Foods and others. Had consistent results regarding the meat.
Kylee: Beef is very economical in our house and here are a few tips you can use: buy in bulk straight from the farmer. Often a minimum of 1/4 cow and often 1/2 cow minimum. If you don’t have room for that much lbs in your freezer then there are usually others in your area who would love to split it with you. I have paid from $4.50-$5.40 a lb for all cuts in your 1/4 or 1/2. So, paying that price ground, offal, roasts, stew meat &, best of all, steaks! These prices are for fully pastured cows, no feed lot or grain fattening in these prices.
Another tip to realize when watching the budget is that for most people it takes much less volume of beef to be satisfied and well nourished than it takes of other food products.
Another awesome thing is that for some reason many people of our generation don’t realize how incredibly nutritious offal is so some of the most nutritious cuts of beef are the least expensive! If watching your budget, liver is often the best buy. Soup bones also work out this way.
Kylee you’re misinformed.
Melissa: how do you cook it for breakfast? We eat the heart chopped and then added to lots of other meat dishes so we don’t notices it but it adds a Great nutritional boost. Next time we plan to add it to our smoothies after freezing it the appropriate amount of time. Eating liver right now for dinner as well as add it to our smoothies every morning as a real food vitamin.
I’m pregnant and will follow your council and add this to the meal list for the week. Thanks! 🙂
YES!!!!! Eat it up .ambre. So good for your unborn baby 🙂
Beef isn’t healthy or economical. 🙁
Educate yourself!
Conventional beef is not a great choice, but grassfed beef is fabulously healthy! eatwild.com has some great resources about the differences between conventional and grassfed beef as does the blog tendergrassfedmeat.com
Eaten this since childhood in Jamaica, haven’t found grassfed and finished here yet, so a no go until then:), but its delish.