Despite the large assortment of ready-made pates in the store, it is worth trying this homemade meat dish. Such a pate will be an excellent appetizer on a festive and everyday table.
It is necessary
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- 750 g pork;
- 500 g beef liver;
- 250 g ham;
- 1 onion;
- a bunch of parsley;
- dried cumin;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tbsp salt
- Red pepper;
- 3 tbsp cognac.
Instructions
Step 1
Chop the onion and fry it in vegetable oil. Place parsley sprigs, peeled garlic cloves, diced beef liver and ham, and sautéed onions in a food processor. Grind to an almost uniform paste-like consistency.
Step 2
Cut the pork into small cubes. Place in a bowl with the mixture already prepared. Add dried cumin, red pepper, salt and cognac. You can also add green peas if you like. Stir the mixture well with your hands. Pieces of pork and spices should be evenly distributed throughout the paste. Place the mixture in a baking dish and cover with foil. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the pate in it for two hours. You can determine the readiness by appearance - the fat melted from above should be baked, and the pate itself should acquire a grayish color without pink blotches. Cool and cut into plastics before serving. A good addition to this dish would be fresh baguette and cereal bread, as well as gherkins and green salad.
Step 3
For a holiday, prepare a special variation of the dish - pate in bread. In this case, it is first baked for an hour until half cooked. After that, the pate must be taken out and wrapped in thinly rolled puff pastry, then returned to the mold and put in the oven for another half hour.
Step 4
If you love chicken, make a pate from it. In this case, chicken ham and liver are used. It is also best to replace cognac with white wine, which is better suited to the taste of chicken. It takes less time to bake such a pate - about an hour.
Step 5
You should choose the right drink for the pate. For a pork dish, dry red wine, such as burgundy, is best suited. And for goose liver pate, the ideal accompaniment is Sauternes, a special type of sweet white wine.
