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FRENCH CHOPPED CHICKEN LIVER PATE



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Make and share this French Chopped Chicken Liver Pate recipe from Food.com.

Provided by chia2160

Categories     Chicken

Time 45m

Yield 20 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 lb chicken liver
3 tablespoons chicken fat or 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, plus more for greasing pan
1 large onion, diced
4 large eggs, hard-boiled
3 -4 tablespoons cognac or 3 -4 tablespoons other brandy
1 tablespoon corn or 1 tablespoon potato starch
salt & freshly ground black pepper
5 -6 bay leaves, preferably fresh
rye bread

Steps:

  • Heat chicken fat or vegetable oil in sauté pan over medium heat for 1 minute, and sauté onion in it 20 to 25 minutes, or until very soft and lightly golden. add uncooked liver, and cook until just pink inside, a few minutes.
  • Place onions and liver in food processor with eggs, brandy and starch, and process until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
  • Arrange bay leaves shiny side down in loaf pan, and spoon liver mixture on top, pressing gently with spoon to get rid of any air bubbles. Set pan in a larger pan two-thirds filled with warm water, and bake 20 minutes. Cool, and unmold. Serve with rye bread.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 62.1, Fat 4, SaturatedFat 1.2, Cholesterol 117.1, Sodium 30.6, Carbohydrate 1.1, Fiber 0.1, Sugar 0.4, Protein 5.2

FRENCH CHOPPED-LIVER PATE



FRENCH CHOPPED-LIVER PATE image

Categories     Chicken     Appetizer

Yield 20 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 lb. chicken livers
3 tablespoons chicken fat or vegetable oil, plus more for greasing the pan
1 large onion, diced
4 large eggs, hard-boiled
3-4 tablespoons Cognac
1 tablespoon corn or potato starch
salt and pepper to taste
5-6 bay leaves, preferably fresh
Rye bread

Steps:

  • 1. Heat chicken fat or vegetable oil in saute pan over medium heat til hot and saute onion in it 20- 25 minutes, or until very soft and lightly golden. Add uncooked liver, and cook until just pink inside, a few minutes. 2. Place onions and liver in food processor with eggs, brandy and starch and process until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper. 3. Arrange bay leaves shiny side down in loaf pan, and spoon liver mixture on top, pressing gently with spoon to get rid of any air bubbles. Set pan in a larger pan two-thirds filled with warm water, and bake 20 minutes. Cool, and unmold. Serve with rye bread.

FRENCH CHOPPED LIVER PâTé



French Chopped Liver Pâté image

The elegant Gilbert Simon invited me for tea in her beautiful apartment in Nîmes, a city in the south of France dating back to the Roman Empire. Born in Lyon, Madame Simon, who is in her late eighties, married a Jewish "Nîmois" whom she met at a dance. But then the Nazis came in 1942 and started taking Jewish families away. "We left before they could find us," she told me. "They were searching for my husband because he was a doctor here, working in the Resistance." When they left Nîmes, the Simons hid in the mountains. "We found a house to live in with our two little girls. The peasants sold us vegetables; sometimes they killed a lamb; they brought us cheese and butter. When we returned to Nîmes, it was very difficult. There were not very many Jews left." Today the majority of Jews are Sephardic, having immigrated to Nîmes in the 1960s from North Africa. Thinking back to happier and more prosperous times, this is the pâté she made through the years for her own family on Friday nights and the holidays, as well as for Jewish students who stayed with her while studying in Nîmes or nearby Aix-en-Provence.

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 pound chicken livers
2 tablespoons rendered chicken fat or vegetable oil
1 medium onion, or 4 shallots, diced
4 large hard-boiled eggs
3 tablespoons Cognac or port
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
5 or 6 fresh bay leaves*

Steps:

  • Preheat the broiler. Broil the livers on a rack 4 inches from the heat for about 1 1/2 minutes on each side, or until there is no more blood. Drain the livers, and lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees.
  • Heat the chicken fat or oil in a sauté pan, and sauté the onion or shallots slowly for 10 to 15 minutes, or until very soft and lightly colored. Add the livers, and cook until still lightly pink inside, just a minute or two.
  • Place the livers, onion or shallots, eggs, and Cognac or port in a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Process until smooth.
  • Decorate the bottom of a 9-inch loaf pan with the bay leaves, placed shiny side down. Spoon the liver mixture on top of them, tapping gently to get rid of any air bubbles. Set the pan into a bain-marie, and bake for 20 minutes. Cool, then unmold. Serve with rye bread.

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