Delicious, satisfying and deliciously tender - it's all about him, about homemade pate. In addition, if it is prepared at home, then you will be 100% sure of its naturalness. So, without any fear, offer your child (and not only) such sandwiches for breakfast. Or treat friends who have looked at the light with tartlets filled with pate mass. Such a cold appetizer will be appropriate at any table. And eaten with pleasure, and immediately!
Surely, many of you know how to cook pate at home. And they did it more than once. But there are many types of this wonderful nutritious treat. And they differ not only in the set of ingredients, but also in the method of preparation.
So, pate is a delicate pasty mass of a homogeneous consistency. There are a lot of products that claim to be the main role in the preparation of this yummy. And both animal and plant origin. But the recipe for making liver pate has become the most famous and widespread.
Liver pate is not only tasty, but also extremely healthy. It can be prepared from pork, beef, as well as chicken or goose liver.
In addition to the use of offal, pate can be meat or poultry: chicken, turkey. Various vegetables can be added to them - onions, carrots, pumpkins, etc. They also cook fish pate (from fish fillet) and cod liver.
There are also recipes for making lean variations of pate: from mushrooms, beans, lentils, from tofu cheese. Chopped nuts, seeds and greens will organically fit into the composition of such pates. Such varieties of it are good for vegetarians and fasting people. And also, being less caloric, they are ideal for dieters.
If you do not bother counting calories, then you will certainly like the bacon pate. Or from herring, better known as herring oil. They are both a hearty addition to main courses and a savory snack.
To prepare some types of pate, simply use a meat grinder or blender, seasoning them with spices. Others require heat treatment. They are cooked for a long time on low heat or baked future pate in the oven or slow cooker.
You will learn how to make delicious and beautifully serve homemade pate from our master classes with step-by-step photos.
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What is good liver pate? It has a very delicate taste, which is usually liked by everyone - both adults and children. You can make sandwiches from it, which are actually universal: they are suitable for a quick but hearty breakfast, and for a snack at school or at work, and as a meal on the road. And liver pate is an excellent filling for all kinds of holiday snacks, from stuffed eggs to tartlets.
I am very impressed that making liver pate at home is a very simple process that does not take much time. So a very young hostess, who does not have much experience, and a mother of a large family, who simply does not have the opportunity to spend all day in the chores in the kitchen, can cope.
I hope I convinced you, and you also wanted to treat your loved ones to this delicious snack. Then I won’t distract you with general information anymore, it’s better to tell you right away how to cook chicken liver liver pate without much hassle.
Ingredients:
Cooking liver pate at home:
We wash fresh liver in cold water. We remove films and veins. If the liver was frozen, thaw it in advance, keeping it in the refrigerator so that the defrosting process is slower. This will preserve the maximum amount of nutrients in the liver, it will remain elastic and practically will not differ from fresh.
Cut the onion into quarter rings or half rings, rub the carrots on a coarse grater.
Heat up a frying pan with vegetable oil. We spread the prepared onions and carrots in the pan and pass them until soft, 7-8 minutes.
Add the liver to the vegetables and fry everything together until the liver is ready, 12-15 minutes.
Readiness is checked as follows: with a wooden (or silicone) spatula, cut a piece of liver in half. If the liver is ready, no juice will stand out on the cut, it will be brownish (not burgundy!) in color. In order not to overcook the liver, check the cut every 2 minutes after 10 minutes of frying, because overcooked liver becomes dry, tough and then your pate risks not being so tasty.
Prepared liver with vegetables can be cooled for 5-7 minutes - just to make it comfortable to process them further. But it should not be completely cooled to room temperature, otherwise small grains may be felt in the pate.
We twist the liver with vegetables twice through a meat grinder (we use a grate with small holes).
Then add nutmeg, salt, pepper and melted butter. Mix until smooth.
The resulting pate will seem too soft - this is the result of the presence of liquid butter. Place the pâté in a lidded container and place in the refrigerator until completely chilled.
Many people think that there is simply no better snack than a liver pate. Delicate, airy and incredibly tasty pate, not everyone knows how to cook. How to remove the bitterness characteristic of pork liver, how not to overdry it in a pan and make the dish uniform in consistency and very tasty, we will tell in our article.
Many housewives deliberately bypass the pork liver, preferring beef or chicken offal to it. This is due to the specific taste and bitterness that can spoil the taste of the finished dish. The following recommendations will help you get rid of these troubles and cook a delicious and tender pork liver pate at home:
A delicious pork liver pate with fried vegetables and golden butter can be prepared according to the following recipe.
The cooking sequence will be as follows:
Often, when preparing a pate, lard is added to the liver, due to which the appetizer becomes softer and easily spread on bread. The result is a very tasty pork liver pate.
The recipe for its preparation is as follows:
According to this recipe, the pate turns out to be more like a thick sauce, in which it is convenient to dip croutons or crackers. However, in the refrigerator, the snack becomes thicker and easily spreads on bread.
A delicious pork liver pate with a rich creamy taste is prepared as follows:
This dish can also be called the most useful, since the liver is not fried for it, but baked in the oven along with vegetables and butter.
To prepare snacks from pork offal, you need to grind all the ingredients (pork liver - 0.5 kg, onion and garlic clove) in a meat grinder. Add 50 ml of milk, salt and pepper to taste in the prepared minced meat. Next, pour in the melted butter and grind the minced meat again with a submersible blender.
After that, the pate is laid out in a small greased baking dish. From above it is tightened with foil. After that, the form is placed in a larger baking sheet, into which water is poured to the middle. Pork liver pate in the oven is baked at 160 degrees for 60 minutes. The appetizer is served chilled.
Cooking pate in a slow cooker is even easier and faster than in any other way. The liver, washed and cut into pieces, is simply laid out in the multicooker bowl along with chopped onions, carrots and a clove of garlic. From above, the ingredients are poured with milk (180 ml). After that, the multicooker lid closes and the "Baking" mode is set. Cooking time is 35 minutes.
Salt and pepper are added to the stewed vegetables with liver to taste. After that, they are crushed with a submersible blender with a tablespoon of butter. It turns out a very tasty and low-fat liver pate from pork liver. The recipe for its preparation is very simple and accessible to everyone. For a beautiful appetizer serving, after grinding, the pate is transferred to a ceramic or glass jar and sprinkled with fresh green onions.
Home-cooked pate can not only be served immediately, but can also be preserved for the winter. To prepare such an appetizer, sliced pork liver (1 kg) is fried on both sides in butter (100 g), then the onions are sautéed and the ingredients are ground into minced meat in a meat grinder at least twice. Salt, pepper, nutmeg are added to the prepared minced meat. After that, the mass is heated over low heat.
Ready liver pate from pork liver is laid out in prepared glass jars. The recipe for an appetizer for the winter involves its obligatory sterilization in a pot of hot water for 2 hours. So that during the heat treatment the juice does not flow out of the pate, the minced meat should be placed in jars, not reaching the edge of 3 cm.
To prepare this pate, all the ingredients (0.5 kg each of liver, bacon and onions) are freshly ground with an immersion blender to a homogeneous consistency. In the process of whipping, raw eggs (5 pcs.), Semolina (10 tablespoons), salt and pepper are added to them. Prepared minced meat should stand on the table for 15 minutes.
After the specified time, the minced meat is transferred to a baking bag, carefully tied up and lowered into a pot of cold water. Cook the pate for 2 hours over low heat. It is advisable to ensure that the bag does not touch the walls of the pan. The cooled pate is cut into slices and served at the table.
Culinary cuisines of different countries have many original and traditional recipes for cooking liver dishes. Rich in vitamins, iron, copper and other useful substances, the liver is good in itself, “a la naturel”. It is much more interesting to cook a real homemade liver pate, which can be used to make sandwiches, decorate the festive table and just for breakfast every day. The liver is especially useful for pregnant women and children, but not everyone perceives the product favorably with a special smell and bitterness.
Another thing is liver pate. Beautifully garnished with many mouth-watering ingredients, it has a delicate taste and almost does not taste like a liver. Sometimes it is even impossible to determine what it is made of, since this homogeneous dish is well crushed and mixed. It is recommended to soak pork and beef liver in milk before cooking to get rid of the characteristic aftertaste. Hot and cold spices, fruits, carrots and onions, butter - there are as many recipes as there are numerous combinations of ingredients. Often the composition of the pastes includes white wine or grape juice, sour cream (it removes an unpleasant aftertaste well). Boiled eggs are ground with all the contents and seasonings.
Becoming a true pâté expert is not difficult at all - all you have to do is decide once and cook the kind of liver that you have. And then do with it what you want - stuff eggs or pancakes, spread on bread and bake in the oven, or just take ready-made sandwiches for a working “snack”. Do not forget to stock up on a glass of white wine - it will best display and emphasize the great taste of the liver pate. So, we are preparing a homemade dish, without food additives and preservatives - according to the most appetizing recipes.
The quality of a frozen liver can only be assessed at home, when defrosted, so in the store you can only pay attention to the production and storage time. It is much easier to verify the suitability of refrigerated products. The liver should not be too dark - this indicates that there was less pollution in the living filter of the animal's body. For the same reason, products from young animals are preferable, with a sweet smell without mustiness and specific impurities.
The liver of an old animal can be softened by soaking it in milk. The same goal can be achieved by dipping a piece for a couple of minutes in boiling water, throwing it on a sieve. Remove the films and cut out the veins and ducts to ensure that you get rid of bile, which can hopelessly spoil the dish.
Liver pate - the best recipes
The best version of the liver is veal. It should be pale pink, with shades of gray and purple in some places, but not lumpy and brown. In order for it to be homogeneous, properly prepare - remove the spit and cut into large pieces. Peel and chop the onion, grate the carrot.
Ingredients: beef liver (400 grams), onion (1 pc.), white bread (can be a long loaf, 2 slices), carrots (1 pc), milk (300-400 grams), butter (1 spoon), salt, spices, herbs .
Cooking method
Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil until they become soft. Fry the liver very quickly in a frying pan over medium heat. Do not overcook, otherwise you risk getting a tough product. Salt at the end of frying. Mix with vegetables and add slices of white bread to the gravy - they absorb the liquid obtained during frying. Cover with a lid and leave to cool. Allow the mass to cool and grind everything. To do this, you can use the item that is more convenient for you - a mixer, a combine or just a mechanical meat grinder. Smooth and uniform in consistency, beat the mass, knead thoroughly. If the mass is too thick, add the liquid obtained by frying, milk or a spoonful of good sour cream, and mix again. We introduce softened butter at the very end - it will give a special splendor, smoothness and delicate creamy taste.
They say that you should not put spices in chicken broth, so as not to drown out the characteristic pleasant smell. But this does not apply to liver dishes at all. We will add spices, a little alcohol, a little gelatin, cream to the chicken liver pate - all this will help make our dish rich and saturated. Since the chicken liver itself is a little sweet, you can not put carrots. Do not hesitate - you will get a delicious dish that cannot be compared with store-bought options. As they say, prepare your fingers for licking, as the well-known saying requires.
Ingredients: chicken liver (500 grams), onion (2 pcs), garlic (20 cloves), cream (200 ml), sherry brandy (or cognac, 2 spoons), nutmeg, gelatin diluted in half a glass of water (1 teaspoon ), salt, ground pepper.
Cooking method
Chop the onion and garlic. Spread the liver on a paper towel or napkin and check if the bile residues are lost somewhere - we ruthlessly cut out all the suspicious pieces and throw them away. Cut large pieces into pieces. We fry the onion and garlic in butter in a pan, then take it out, and stew the liver in the same oil. When a beautiful crust forms, cool and grind everything well in a combine or pass 2 times through a meat grinder.
Add cream, salt, cognac or brandy, nutmeg and knead well. Form a large sausage and leave to harden in the refrigerator. Gelatin can be used for decoration: dilute in half a glass of water and add pieces of vegetables, herbs, large spices, pour over the pate and refrigerate for 1 hour. Gelatin performs not only a decorative function - under its layer the dish is stored much longer, more than a week.
Pork liver is a sharper product. The recipe for beef liver will also make an excellent pate, but we will complicate the task and prepare a more serious dish, with the addition of meat, lard, spices and wine - in general, everything is as it should be for cooking pork dishes.
Ingredients: pork liver (1 kg), pork (500 grams), stale bread (250 grams), onions (3 pcs), carrots (1 large), melted butter (150 grams), lard (unsalted 150 grams), ground pepper (black and red), 200 ml of dry wine, salt, nutmeg.
Cooking method
Finely chop the onion, cut the liver into slices, carrot into small cubes. Boil everything together in a small amount of water, filter and pass through a meat grinder, adding spices. Pour a glass of white wine, melted butter. We grind the mass thoroughly. We lay out a dense food film on the table, spread a layer of pork fat on it and spread the pate. We wrap it in the form of a roll and put it in a saucepan on the pieces of bacon laid at the bottom. Close the lid tightly and place in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
The famous foie gras is considered a recognized delicacy all over the world. It is necessary to stock up on real goose fat, a spoonful of cognac and Provence herbs. Goose liver should not be mixed with many vegetables, so as not to drown out its taste.
Ingredients: Goose fat (1 tablespoon), shallots (3 pcs), goose liver (200 grams), Provence herbs, garlic clove, cognac (1 tablespoon), pepper, salt.
Cooking method
Heat goose fat in a saucepan, add shallots, fry for about half a minute. Add the liver, Provence herbs and garlic, a little later cognac and pepper, salt. Cool the mixture a little and beat in a blender.
In another version of the foie gras, take some dried mushrooms (a tablespoon) and 150 grams of fresh butter. Prepare the mushrooms in advance - soak them overnight and boil them, so that only half a glass of broth remains. Add the mushrooms to the food processor and chop together with the fried liver. Put on a saucer in the form of a pyramid, grease the top with softened creamy small.
- It is believed that the older the liver, the longer it should be soaked in milk. It is enough to soak a young liver for 1 hour. You can add a few hard-boiled eggs and a bunch of greens to vegetables and liver, grind it all in a blender so that the mass is homogeneous. Greens can be tied with a thread into a bundle and boiled with liver, and then removed from the pan by the thread.
- You can serve pate to the table in an original way - for example, stuff small tomatoes with it and decorate with parsley sprigs on top, or make boats from boiled eggs.
Delicate, fragrant, spicy liver pate is a great option for breakfast or a snack. Make it at home with your own hands, so you can be sure that there are no impurities in the food - only natural ingredients. Make sandwiches, pies or snacks with it.
Mushrooms will add zest to the usual liver pate. It turns out unusually tasty and fragrant.