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Serves
6-8
Author Notes
As I used to be nearing Meatless March I had a unexpected hopeful for my dad’s rooster liver paté (or Gehachte). He made it always and would carry it in shrimp tubs to chums with wobbly, hand-scrawled labels and notes. While I used to be no longer regularly partial to the scent of the cooking livers, the onions that he slowly browned until sincere this aspect of burnt filled the home with a wonderfully caramelized sweetness and the closing product used to be always enjoyable. —savorthis
Ingredients
1 pint
rooster livers
1 tablespoon
butter
1 cup
milk (adequate to duvet livers)
1
medium onion, chopped
4
eggs
4 tablespoons
rooster plump
1/8 cup
cognac (no longer obligatory)-
parsley
Instructions
- Rinse livers, natty the sinewy bits, then soak in milk in the fridge for a couple hours. Rinse, pat dry. Season with salt and pepper, then brown in butter until barely pink interior.
- Add cognac to pan and simmer until evaporated. Frosty.
- Raise eggs to a boil, flip off heat, duvet and let sit down 6 minutes. Rinse below wintry water, peel, disclose aside.
- Finely nick onions and slooowwwwwllllly brown onions in rooster plump or butter (I in actuality comprise furthermore inclined duck plump) with a pinch of salt until very, very brown. Nearly unlit, they are so slowly and completely browned.
- My dad would now sincere set up the livers and eggs via a meat grinder and roam in the plump and onions, season and be done. For me, the grainy texture used to be never appealing, so I set up the livers, onions, 2 eggs, s&p into the cuisenart and blended until soft including about 4 tablespoons of plump a pinch at a time until it used to be included and velvety. I furthermore stirred in some chopped parsley.
- Finally, separate the whites and yolks of the relaxation eggs and push them via a sieve adorning the slay of the paté contend with an egg.
- I served this with slices of grilled baguette brushed with oil but my dad served them with “runt rye breads” or saltines which are equally apt.
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