Chicken Liver Pate
"A great-tasting pate that is surprisingly east to make."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1 lb chicken liver, trimmed and halved
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons minced shallots
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1⁄8 teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled
- 1 1⁄4 cups madeira wine
- 1 1⁄4 cups ruby port
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- 2 large eggs, plus
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 1⁄2 cups clarified butter, cooled to lukewarm
directions
- In a bowl, let livers soak in milk, covered and chilled, overnight; drain and puree until smooth.
- Force through a fine sieve into a bowl.
- In a deep saucepan, combine shallots, garlic, thyme, Madeira, Port and brandy.
- Cook over high heat until reduced to about 1/3 cup; let cool.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Butter an 11 x 3 x 2 inch loaf pan.
- Whisk eggs and yolks into liver puree and whisk in shallot mixture, clarified butter and season to taste.
- Turn into a prepared pan, cover with a double layer of foil, set in a larger pan of hot water and bake for 1 hour.
- Remove from water, let cool completely, chill overnight.
- Run a knife around edge of pan and unmold onto a platter lined with parsley.
- Serve with an interesting variety of crackers, toast points and black bread.
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This was very good, and suprisingly easy to make. The only substitution I made was to use tawney rather than ruby port, which may account for my only issue with this- it was a bit sweet. Not enough to stop me from eating it, just enough to notice "hmm, this is a little sweeter than I'd really prefer". I ct the recipe to 3/4 (because the package of livers I bought was 3/4 lb). Zaar then told me to use 1 1/2 eggs plus 1 1/2 egg yolks, which was kind of silly, so I used I whole egg and two yolks. I cooked it in 2 foil pans (6 x 3 1/4 x 2). Very nice creamy texture, pretty pink color, and very yummy on a good piece of french bread. If you like pate, you need to try this recipe. Made for ZWT5 by one of the Cooks with Dirty Faces.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
