Chicken Liver Pineau Pâté Recipes

CHICKEN LIVER PATE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in garlic, onion and chicken livers. Reduce heat to low, and simmer approximately 10 minutes, until chicken livers are tender and no longer pink.
• Place chicken liver mixture in a blender with dry sherry, cream cheese, hot sauce, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth. Transfer to a medium bowl, cover and chill in the refrigerator approximately 2 hours before serving.

CHICKEN LIVER PâTé

Steps:

• Heat 1 tbsp of the butter in a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. When the butter is foaming, add the chicken livers and fry for 2 mins each side.
• Stir the crushed garlic, some of the thyme and Madeira into the pan with the livers. Fry for 2 mins, letting the Madeira simmer. Transfer the mixture to a food processor, reserve 200g of the butter and add the rest to the processor. Blend everything to a smooth paste. Season to taste, then spoon into 4 x 70ml clip-top jars.
• Melt the reserved butter in a medium frying pan and add the sliced garlic. Turn the garlic in the butter until slightly golden. Pour into the 4 jars of pâté, ensuring a few slices of garlic and the remaining thyme leaves go in each jar, and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hrs, or until set. Can be made up to 2 days in advance.
• Before serving, toast the brioche, then cut into triangular quarters for serving. Stir the diced apple through the chutney. Serve the pâté on small wooden boards with the toasted brioche, cornichons and chutney.

CHICKEN LIVER & PINEAU PâTé

Steps:

• Rinse the chicken livers and cut away any dark patches and small stringy threads. Pat dry with kitchen paper. Heat 25g of the butter in a frying pan until foaming, then add the lardons or bacon and fry until crisp. Add the garlic, chicken livers and thyme and fry briskly for about 5 mins, until they are evenly browned. They should be nicely browned on the outside, but pink inside and should feel squashy when pressed.
• Add the pineau, salt and pepper, then bubble for a few mins. Remove from the heat. Blitz the mixture in a food processor until smooth, then spoon into a jar or dish. Smooth the top.
• Melt the remaining butter, put a herb sprig or bay leaf on top of the pâté and pour over the butter, leaving the sediment behind. Leave to cool, then chill until set.4 Serve spooned from the dish with toasted brioche, a bowl of cornichons and a little sea salt.

CHICKEN LIVER PASTI (PâTé)

Steps:

• In a medium size saucepan, add water, chicken livers, sliced onion and bring to boil.
• The onion used in cooking the chicken livers absorbs and reduces the liver odor.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
• When cooked, drain, remove onions and discard.
• Cut away any hard muscle portions of the liver and discard.
• In a food processor or blender, add liver and Sherry and process until smooth.
• Add 1/4 cup of finely chopped onion, butter, salt, pepper, mace and blend well.
• Remove pâté from food processor, form into a ball using 2 large spoons and place on a serving plate or platter.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour to chill.
• Serve with thinly sliced brown bread, rye crisp, crackers or chips.
• Refrigerate any unused portion.

CHICKEN LIVER & PINEAU PâTé

Steps:

• Rinse the chicken livers and cut away any dark patches and small stringy threads.
• Pat dry with kitchen towelling.
• Heat 25g (7/8 oz) of the butter in a frying pan until foaming, then add the lardons or bacon and fry until crisp.
• Add the garlic, chicken livers and thyme and fry briskly for about 5 mins, until they are evenly browned.
• They should be nicely browned on the outside, but pink inside
• and should feel squashy when pressed.
• Add the pineau, salt and pepper, then bubble for a few minutes
• Remove from the heat.
• Blitz the mixture in a food processor until smooth, then spoon into a jar or dish.
• Smooth the top.
• Melt the remaining butter, put an herb swig or bay leaf on top of the pâté and pour over the butter, leaving the sediment behind.
• Leave to cool, then chill until set.
• Serve spooned from the dish with toasted brioche a bowl of cornichons and a little sea salt.

RUSTIC CHICKEN LIVER AND MOREL PATE

Steps:

• Combine milk, cognac, and morel mushrooms in a bowl; soak for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease a terrine mold.
• Combine chicken livers, ham, and garlic in a food processor. Process until mixture is smooth and well combined. Add ground pork, egg, pepper, and salt. Process again until smooth and well combined.
• Drain morel mushrooms and and chop; stir mushrooms into the meat mixture. Tip pate mixture into the prepared terrine mould. Smooth out mixture with the back of a spoon and gently press bay leaf on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pate has set, about 1 hour. Remove from oven and allow to cool to room temperature. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours before serving