Recipe for Making Raw Beef Liver “Capsules”

Recipe for Making Raw Beef Liver “Capsules”

Tara Carpenter, NC.

Nutrition Consultant helping people regain natural gut microbiome after yeast, bacteria, parasitic, and viral infections.

These raw liver pills are a no-fuss, flavorless way to get a steady source of beef liver into your body without much taste. They really are as easy to take as a multivitamin. The hardest part (I find) is sourcing pastured beef liver and getting into the kitchen to make them …. which I always do because of how good I feel taking them! 

I will state the importance of sourcing pasture-raised cow liver. You can certainly ask at your butcher shop or in-store. Where I live in Vermont, I easily find quality beef liver during seasonal times of slaughter from local farmers who freeze liver, and other vital organs, for purchase.

Do NOT use conventional supermarket liver as you will consume these “pills” in a raw/uncooked state and conventional liver is much more of a health risk due to poorly managed bacteria that can harbor inside and on meat, causing foodborne illnesses (i.e., Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter); types of bacteria that can lead to serious digestive infections even death.

Recipe for Raw Beef Liver Pills

Ingredients

100% grass-fed/pastured beef liver, partially thaw if frozen

Method

1. Thaw liver if frozen, but not completely or it will be hard to cut.
2. Rinse liver and pat it dry with a paper towel.
3. Cut liver into pea-sized chunks– about size of a regular pill.
4. Place pieces, separated, on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
5. Flash-Freeze for 15 minutes or until solid, so don’t clump together.
6. Transfer frozen liver pills to airtight container; store in freezer.
7. Swallow 2-4 frozen pills/day or how many fit for your body.

Tips & Tricks

• Further eliminate risk of parasites by freezing liver 14 days before cutting into pills. If you trust your farmer you may not need to be concerned about freezing; esp. if 100% grass-fed (not grain-fed).
• If liver is fresh, put in freezer until hardens a bit to make the cutting process easier.
• 2-4 liver ‘pills’ a day add to 1/2 – 1 ounce per week, which equals 1 serving of beef liver per week (average of 2-3 oz of liver can be safely consumed per week by most source).
• Do not make “pills” too big or may get stuck in throat.
• Best to consume “liver pills” on a regular basis for good results.
• Beef and bison liver deliver the most bang for your buck.

Other ways to take liver pills: CLICK to purchase Radiant Life’s desiccated liver capsules made from the livers of grass-fed cows without added fillers. They are expensive, so if you prefer liver in dried, capsule form check out this site to make your own. Personally, I keep a handful of dehydrators and use my biggest to dry strips of beef liver in and then pulverize them in a magic bullet and encapsulate using a capsule maker. This is an affordable way to make them if you have the equipment.

Where to Get Pastured Liver 

1. Local Harvest – enter zip code and find local farmers.
2. Weston A Price Foundation – get in touch with local chapter for pasture-raised liver.
3. White Oak Pastures – trusted company with pastured liver.

What about cooked liver? Cooked liver is great, yet cooking destroys the enzymes in raw liver and leaves behind mainly nutrients (exception of delicate B vitamins). If you can’t source high quality liver to consume in raw form, then cook liver with one of these recipes.

My son eating cow beef liver gently fried in coconut oil, see here for how my family eats liver.

How Women Benefit From Eating Liver

References

Empowered Sustenance (2013). The Easiest Way to Eat Liver.  https://empoweredsustenance.com/the-easiest-way-to-eat-liver-no-taste-no-fuss/

Healthy Home Economist (2013). Exhausted? This Superfood Can Get You Off the Couch!  https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/exhausted-this-superfood-can-get-you-off-the-couch/

Primally Inspired (2013). Frozen Raw Liver Pills.  https://www.primallyinspired.com/friday-favorites-frozen-raw-liver-pills/

Razaitis, L. (2005). Recipes & Lore About Our Most Important Sacred Food. https://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/liver-files

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