Beef liver pate: recipes

A delicious, incredibly satisfying and wholesome dish that can be easily and simply prepared at home - liver pate made from beef liver.

There are as many recipes and methods for doing this (some of them will be discussed in this article). In time, the whole process takes from 60 or more minutes.

But such a dish will certainly be to your taste: both relatives and friends, and children, and adults. And how many vitamins are in it ..

Description

Beef liver is a very valuable animal product. The vitamins and trace elements that are contained in it are great. This is vitamin A, group B, as well as vitamins C, D, E, K, amino acids, proteins. This product is useful for both children and adults, as it is very rich in iron and protein.

And it is also important that such a dish as liver pate can be prepared at home. Using various additives in the form of spices, oils, herbs, you can get a completely unexpected taste.

The main ingredient is recommended to be bought from farmers who properly feed animals. Freshness and quality contribute to an upscale finished product. Then the dish will be 100% natural, healthy, satisfying.

Having shown a little imagination, you can supplement the dish with various additives: vegetables, berries, jelly. And also cook in a slow cooker.

Pate "Children's"

Adults are happy to eat boiled or fried liver slices. For children, it is better to cook pastes, because in other forms they do not really favor this product.

A dish prepared according to this recipe is very popular with kids, whose mothers have already tested this on their own experience.

Preparation of beef liver paste (step by step recipe):

1. In 1 liter of water, soak the liver with beef (400 grams) - for 60 minutes.
2. Fill the pan with 1 liter of clean drinking water, lay out the pieces of the liver and boil until cooked.
3. Then add peeled carrots (100 grams) and onions (100 grams), bay leaf (3 pieces) to the meat ingredient, cook for another 20 minutes.
4. Salt (10 grams).
5. Finely chop the garlic (20 grams) and soften the butter (100 grams).
6. Put the liver and carrots in a blender bowl (throw onions), add garlic, butter, ground pepper (3 grams). Beat mixture.
7. Pour the meat broth (100 milliliters) into the paste , mix.

The dish for kids and parents is ready.

Paste with the addition of bacon

Those who prefer more oily and spicy food will like this way of cooking this meat appetizer. In time, the whole process will take about 120 minutes.

To make liver pate from beef liver according to this recipe, it is necessary to carry out the following cooking steps:

1. Washed meat ingredients (1 kg of lard and 1 kg of beef liver) pour cold water, add salt (20 grams) and boil for 90 minutes - along with peas of black pepper (10 pieces) and bay leaf (4 pieces).
2. Chop the peeled carrots (0.5 kg) with medium pieces and boil until tender (about 20 minutes). Passing in vegetable oil (20 milliliters) peeled and chopped onions (400 grams).
3. Put the liver, lard, carrots, onions and ground pepper (10 grams) in a bowl of a food processor and beat until puree-like consistency.

Such a dish makes excellent sandwiches or tartlets, and for a change, from above, you can decorate them with slices of boiled carrots, fresh or canned cucumber, a sprig of greens.

Fragrant Pate

Unusual piquancy of taste is given by cognac, which is added to the dish during its preparation. And the finished paste is poured with melted butter, which hardens, forming a delicate crust.

Cooking:

1. Soak the liver with beef (500 g) for 30 minutes in water (milk).
2. Chop in medium slices and fry in vegetable oil (30 milliliters).
3. Chop and onion (150 g) and pour to the meat component, add butter (50 g).
4. At the final stage of the stewing process, pour in cognac (50 milliliters), remove the pan from the stove in a minute.
5. Pass chilled ingredients through a meat grinder.
6. Put the paste in containers or pans and pour melted butter (100 g).
7. Chilled meals can be served with rye bread.

Gentle Pate

A great addition to the dining table, as well as for breakfast or lunch, is an appetizer of pita bread and beef liver paste (recipe with a photo, see below). And also - a good filling for pies (along with rice and onions) and a meat supplement to pasta.

Also from it you can fashion fancy figures - to the festive table (children's birthday, New Year and others).

Step by step cooking:

1. Beef liver (1 kilogram), 200 grams of onions and carrots (peeled and chopped into large pieces), fry in vegetable oil (20 milliliters), add water and salt (15 grams) and simmer for 60 minutes.

2. Finished ingredients grind with a blender.

3. Melt the butter (150 grams) and add to the paste, put the mixture in a pan and simmer for 7 minutes.

4. Cool the finished dish.

Homemade paste with basil

A pleasant and aromatic appetizer, in which, for a change, seasoning can be added - basil. It is known that this plant has a number of useful properties (vitamins B, C, PP, essential oils), as well as a pleasant aroma.

Cooking:

Pass on chopped butter (50 grams) coarsely chopped onions (0.3 kilograms) and carrots (0.3 kilograms) - peeled. Separately fry beef liver slices (800 g). At the end of the process add chopped dried basil (10 grams), ground black pepper (3 grams) and salt (10 grams).

Combine all the ingredients to make a delicious beef liver paste (according to the recipe) and use a blender to make mashed potatoes.

Ready meals can be served warm or chilled. Pate will become a favorite food for children, as well as the adult part of the family.

Pate with olive oil

A soft, delicate and aromatic dish that has a creamy flavor thanks to milk, in which the main ingredient is soaked. In addition, it is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients and cooking sequence:

1. Chop the liver with large pieces of beef (500 grams) and pour milk (500 milliliters), soak for 20 minutes.
2. Peeled onions (250 grams) and carrots (250 grams) cut into medium pieces and sauté in sunflower oil (20 milliliters).
3. Pour out the liver, fry.
4. Simmer until cooked under a closed lid.
5. Pass chilled vegetables and meat ingredient through a meat grinder (through medium-sized cells).
6. Add olive oil (50 milliliters), ground black pepper (4 grams), salt (15 grams) to the mixture.
7. Pass through a meat grinder (small cell).

A delicious and tender dish is ready.

Ham and Cranberry Pate

To make this dish more original and refined, you can add dried cranberries and slices of ham, as well as soy sauce, coriander and garlic.

Cooking:

1. Chop the onion (100 grams) in large pieces, sauté in vegetable oil (50 milliliters).
2. Wash and chop the beef liver (0.6 kilograms), add to the onion.
3. When the meat ingredient becomes rosy, add salt (10 grams) and remove from the stove.
4. To pass through a meat grinder a liver with onions, and also soy sauce (50 milliliters) with ground black pepper (2 grams).
5. Grind ham (100 grams) and garlic (10 grams), fry in vegetable oil until crisp, add butter (50 grams).
6. Pour the mixture into the liver paste, sprinkle with coriander (1 gram) and cranberries (20 grams), mix.
7. Put the mixture in baking tins, cover with foil and cool for 60 minutes.
8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
9. Boil water, pour the paste in the forms.
10. Bake for 60 minutes.
11. After that, cool for 12 hours.

Such a delicious and sophisticated dish will become a decoration of the festive table and will delight not only with its taste, but also with its usefulness.

Mushroom paste with cherry jelly

The beef liver paste prepared according to the following recipe can be varied at home with slices of mushrooms and berry jelly (for a cake).

The cooking process is quite simple and takes only about 60 minutes. But then with such a dish you can please not only your family and relatives, but also friends, colleagues.

Cooking:

1. Finely chop 100 grams of onion and sauté in vegetable oil (20 milliliters).
2. Soak the beef liver (350 grams) in water, cut and add to the onion.
3. Fresh mushrooms (100 grams) chopped in medium pieces, send to the liver and onion.
4. At the final stage of stewing, add cognac (10 milliliters), pour out salt (15 grams) and spices (basil, pepper).
5. Grind the finished mixture with a blender, add 70 grams of cream (20% fat).
6. Put the paste in portioned molds (up to half in height), it is recommended to put it in the refrigerator.
7. Squeeze juice from fresh (or frozen) cherries (100 milliliters).
8. Add sugar (5 grams) and a mixture for jelly (1/2 part of the bag), cook to a boil.
9. Pour the sweet ingredient into the molds - on the paste.
10. Cool for 40 minutes.

A beautiful, tasty and original dish is ready.

Pate in a slow cooker

This simple recipe will allow you to cook a hearty and vitamin dish that can feed the whole family (and even children who do not like the liver in another way).

Cooking:

1. Pour the beef liver (0.5 kilograms) with water for 1 hour.
2. Chop the meat component and fry in vegetable oil (30 milliliters) in a bowl (“Frying” program).
3. After 10 minutes, stir the liver and pour out ground pepper (2 grams), cloves (1 gram), bay leaf (1 gram), salt (15 grams).
4. Chop the onions (200 grams) in large pieces and add to the meat product.
5. Peel the carrots (0.3 kilograms) and cut into circles, pour into a bowl - to the prepared ingredients.
6. In the "Extinguishing" program, under the closed cover of the multicooker, cook the dish for 25 minutes.
7. When the components have cooled, put everything except cloves and bay leaf in a bowl and chop with a blender.
8. Add butter (150 grams) and beat the paste until mashed.

Prepared according to the above recipe, beef liver paste with carrots is ready. Thanks to the orange component, it acquires a delicate amber hue and a pleasant taste.

Summary

A healthy home-made dish gains special value not only due to its taste (which is simply divine), but also due to its selection of substances useful to the body.