Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken liver pâté. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Learn how to make a Chicken Liver Pâté Recipe. This chicken liver pate recipe is a perfect cold appetizer to spread on a French baguette and to share with. Chicken liver pâté is perfect for spreading over crackers or toasted thin baguette slices.
Chicken Liver Pâté is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Liver Pâté is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken liver pâté using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Liver Pâté:
- Make ready 12 tablespoons (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- Make ready 2 large shallots, peeled and finely chopped (3/4 to 1 cup)
- Take 1 pound fresh chicken livers, trimmed of fat and connective tissue
- Prepare 2 teaspoons dried thyme or 1 Tablespoon of fresh thyme that's been chopped (lavender and parsley are also great additions - or even dried Herbes de Provence)
- Take 1/3 cup dry vermouth (you can also use red or white wine, Port, or Madeira, depending on which flavor you prefer)
- Take 1 teaspoon kosher salt to start
- Take 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Butter and Cognac lend the spread a rich, mellow flavor and a silky-smooth texture. Chicken Liver Pâté is a luxuriously rich and deeply nourishing addition to any dinner table. Spread atop sprouted grain toast points and garnished with dried cranberries, toasted walnuts and microgreens. A Chicken Liver Pâté (aka chopped liver recipe) passed down through generations.
Steps to make Chicken Liver Pâté:
- Put a large, heavy sauté pan over medium heat, and melt 4 tablespoons of the butter until it begins to foam. Add the shallots, and sweat them for 4 to 5 minutes…
- Just until they're all translucent. You don't want them to brown. Then add thyme, stir it in, and let it bloom in the hot butter for a minute or so.
- Add vermouth, turn heat to high, and let it reduce by about half.
- Then add chicken livers and gently toss them in the sauce.
- Add salt and pepper, then let livers cook, occasionally gently stirring and folding to make sure all sides get cooked, just until the livers are lightly browned on the outside, but still tender and pink on the inside.
- Let livers cool for 15 minutes or so before putting them in a food processor or blender (along with all of the sauce) and puree until smooth.
- Add remainder of the butter (8 Tablespoons) and blend again until completely smooth. Adjust seasoning if needed and blend a few more seconds.
- Transfer the pâté into a lidded container, give the bottom a few gentle taps on the counter to pack it, then cover entire surface with plastic wrap or wax paper, put lid on container, and refrigerate until firm. (At least two hours.) - - The pâté should keep at least 5 to 7 days well refrigerated.
- Serve with baguette, toast, or crackers, and enjoy! :)
Butter and brandy makes this classic pâté rich and creamy. My family kicks off every Christmas Eve with my sister's chicken liver pâté, setting upon it like savages, schmearing the. Chicken liver pate can be served as appetizer or snack, on bread, toasts, crackers or flat breads. You can also exercise a pastry chief inner self and arrange pate flowers using pastry bag. My pâté tasting panel complain that Delia's chicken liver pâté is "a bit oily", although it's set solid: the winner, texture-wise is Merrony's pâté, which is smooth and creamy.
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