Chicken pate with gherkins, peanuts and olives is a simple dish that is cooked for 10 minutes if there are semi-finished products among your stock - boiled chicken, ready-made vegetables and eggs.
This recipe is just a find for those cases when small portions of ready-made products remained in the refrigerator after the festive feast - pieces of fried chicken, boiled vegetables that were not useful for Russian cuisine.
However, despite the simplicity of the ingredients and the preparation, the tasty chicken pate deserves approval and takes its rightful place among the cold appetizers on the holiday table.
To make chicken pie with gherkins, peanuts and olives, you will need a blender or food processor to grind the ingredients to a smooth, creamy state.
- Cooking time: 25 minutes
- Servings: 8
Ingredients for chicken pate with gherkins, peanuts and olives
- 200 g chicken breast;
- 120 g of boiled carrots;
- 120 g soft cheese;
- 2 boiled eggs;
- 100 g of blanched peanuts;
- 50 g of mayonnaise;
- 2-3 gherkins;
- 10 olives or olives;
- 1 onion;
- 1 celery stalk;
- dried thyme, salt, vegetable oil.
Method of cooking chicken pate with gherkins, peanuts and olives
Finely chop celery stalks and onions, fry in a frying pan with a non-stick coating to a transparent state, then add chicken breast cut into small cubes or strips, fry until ready, add salt, season with spices to taste.
The cooled chicken is sent to the blender.
It should be remembered that you can mix products at room temperature or from the refrigerator. Warm ingredients can not be combined with cold.
Add boiled carrot to sliced chicken meat. Carrots for this recipe can be browned with onions in hot vegetable oil until soft, and then cooled. With the browned carrots, the taste of the dish will be more saturated, and the color will be light orange.
Put in a blender soft fat cheese or plain processed cheese, for example, “Friendship” or “Dutch”.
Cook hard-boiled eggs, cool, clean, cut into several pieces, add to blender.
Pour a big handful of blanched peanuts or, if for some reason you do not like peanuts, then any nuts - forest, cashew, pistachio. Depending on the type of nuts selected, the taste changes.
Add mayonnaise and dried thyme to give the dish an appetizing flavor and delicate texture. Grind the ingredients first at low speed, then add momentum. Mix, until the mass becomes smooth and uniform, it will take about 3 minutes.
Cut into small cubes a few pickled gherkins. We cut olives or olives into thin strips. Add to the ground ingredients gherkins and olives, gently mix the mass with a spatula.
Chicken pate with gherkins, peanuts and olives is ready, it is better to put them in the fridge for 10-15 minutes so that the ingredients cool down. But if it's time to have breakfast or dinner, and the fragrant fresh baguette is already on the table, then we cut off a piece of fresh white bread, spread a generous portion of chicken pate on it and ... enjoy your meal!
