Liver Pate La Quiche Continental Cafe Recipes

LIVER PATE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, combine water, chicken livers, and sliced onion. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and cover. Simmer for about 20 minutes, or until liver is cooked and tender. Remove from heat, drain, and discard onions. Also remove and discard any hard portions of the liver.
• Place cooked livers in a blender or food processor, and process until smooth. Add chopped onion, sherry, butter or margarine, salt, black pepper, and mace; pulse to blend. With hands lightly greased, form pate mixture into a mound, and place on a serving platter. Chill for 1 hour before serving.

LIVER PATE (LA QUICHE CONTINENTAL CAFE)

Steps:

• Place chicken fat in skillet and cook (render) over medium heat until it is liquified. Remove any particles that do not dissolve.
• Add celery and onion and saute until vegetables are a light golden brown.
• Add chicken livers, herbs and Worchestershire sauce. Simmer over low heat about 45 minutes.
• Adding Cognac, run livers through a food mill or food processor to form a smooth paste. Chill.

LIPTAUER CHEESE (LA QUICHE CONTINENTAL CAFE)

Steps:

• Beat the butter until very smooth and creamy with a rotary beater or electric blender.
• Add cream cheese, cottage cheese and beat until well blended and smooth.
• Add parsley, onion, paprika, dry mustard, Worcestershire sauce and caraway seed; whip until thoroughly blended.
• Chill. Serve in crocks.

CHICKEN LIVER PATE WITH BRIOCHE CROSTINI TRIANGLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush brioche triangles with melted butter and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden.
• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion in oil with salt, pepper, and bay leaves until onion becomes soft and golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Add chicken livers to skillet and cook, stirring occasionally, until livers are browned and firm to the touch, 5 minutes.
• Deglaze skillet with Marsala wine, scraping up brown bits, and reduce liquid by half.
• Remove bay leaves and transfer liver-onion mixture to food processor; puree until smooth. With motor running, slowly add remaining olive oil. Adjust seasoning to taste, transfer to ramekins, cover, and chill at least four hours before serving. Serve with brioche crostini triangles.

CHEF JOHN'S PATE DE CAMPAGNE

Steps:

• Combine cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and cayenne pepper in a small bowl to make spice mixture.
• Place pork shoulder, duck meat, chopped bacon, chicken livers, onion, shallot, parsley, cognac, salt, garlic, pepper, 3/4 teaspoon spice mixture, and pink curing salt in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly until evenly distributed. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate about 2 hours.
• Whisk cream, bread crumbs, and eggs together in a bowl.
• Transfer pork mixture to a rimmed baking sheet lined with a silicone mat or parchment. Freeze for 15 to 20 minutes to facilitate grinding the meat.
• Grind pork mixture into a bowl using the meat-grinder attachment of a stand mixer. Add dried cherries and pistachios. Add the cream mixture; fold gently until just combined.
• Arrange bacon strips crosswise in a 9x5-inch loaf pan, letting ends hang over the edges of the pan. Trim some strips to fit the ends of the pan.
• Fill pan to the top with the ground pork mixture; smooth the top. Cover surface with strips of bacon. Fold side bacon piece edges over the top. Cover with a piece of parchment cut to fit the top of the pan; wrap tightly with heavy duty aluminum foil.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Transfer pan to a deep pot or Dutch oven. Pour in hot tap water to reach 1/2 to 2/3 of the way up the side of the pan. Cover.
• Bake in the preheated oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center reads 155 degrees F (68 degrees C), 1 3/4 to 2 hours.
• Transfer pan to a paper-towel lined surface to absorb any moisture. If mixture has risen above the top edge of the pan, press it down with a heavy pan. Remove the aluminum foil, leaving the parchment paper on top. Transfer pan to a paper-towel-lined baking dish. Cut a piece of cardboard to be slightly smaller than the top of the pan. Wrap with aluminum foil and place on the parchment paper. Press down with weights like canned food.
• Refrigerate at least 8 hours to chill and compress the pate.
• To unmold the pate, pour very hot water into a large bowl. Dip mold into hot water for 1 to 2 seconds. Turn out onto a paper-towel-lined dish; chill again before slicing.