Simple chicken pate with egg and vegetables is prepared for both the daily menu and the festive table. This is a very convenient recipe, for it you can use leftover food, for example, a portion of baked chicken or turkey, boiled eggs and carrots, which were not useful for salad.
Raw ingredients are indicated in the recipe; if all the products are prepared in advance, then it will take no more than 10 minutes to prepare chicken pate. Grind the ingredients can be a blender or mince with a small nozzle, as did our grandmothers.
For the festive version of this dish, I advise you to add finely chopped marinated cucumber, chopped olives or marinated sweet pepper to the already prepared chicken paste. The dish is stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days.
- Cooking time: 1 hour
- Servings: 8
Ingredients for Chicken Pate with Egg and Vegetables
- 800 g chicken legs;
- 150 g onion or salad onion;
- 220 g carrots;
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g of 82% butter;
- salt, pepper, frying oil, spices for broth.
Method of cooking simple chicken pate with egg and vegetables
Onion for pate chop finely. Pour 2 tablespoons of refined, odorless vegetable oil into the pan, add 1 tablespoon of butter, throw the chopped onion, sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
Pass the onion 10 minutes to a translucent state. Stir so as not to burn.
Brush carrots, clean. Cut the carrot into thin strips or rub it on a large vegetable grater.
Add the chopped carrot to the browned onions. Cooking vegetables for pate for 15 minutes on low heat until the carrots are soft.
Boil chicken thighs until cooked with spices for broth. For this chicken pate, you can bake the chicken legs in foil, cook in the microwave, or use leftover baked chicken.
Remove the meat from the bones, put in the bowl of a food processor.
Boil hard-boiled fresh eggs, cool in ice-cold water, scrape off the shells, cut them into pieces and throw them into the bowl.
Next, add the cooled steamed vegetables. Ingredients for mixing must be at room temperature! Add the remaining butter. Use high-quality butter, fat content of about 82%.
Grind the ingredients of the paste with several impulse inclusions, taste it, then salt and pepper it to your taste and grind the ingredients again until a smooth, homogeneous mass is obtained.
Ready chicken pate shift in a hermetically sealed jar. It is convenient to use the cans, the covers of which are provided with a clip.
We remove a can of simple chicken pate, with an egg and vegetables in the fridge for half an hour, so that the mass has cooled.
It remains to cut a piece of fresh bread, spread it with a generous portion of chicken pate with eggs and vegetables, add a slice of pickled cucumber or a piece of fresh salad. Enjoy your meal. Cook simple and tasty food with pleasure.
Similarly, you can make a pate from chicken liver or from any cooked meat. It is important to properly prepare the liver or boil the meat so that the texture is tender.
