Special Occasions Recipes - Luxurious Liver Pate Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 10

• 250 g/8 oz chicken livers, trimmed

• 2 shallots, coarsely chopped

• 2 garlic cloves, halved

• 2 duck breasts, cooked, skinned and chopped

• 2 eggs, beaten

• 2 tablespoons sherry

• 150 ml/1/4 pint double cream

• fresh bay leaves

• juniper berries

• 10 streaky bacon rashers

• salt and pepper

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Method:

1. Using a food processor or blender, process the chicken livers, shallots, garlic and duck breasts until smooth.

2. Gradually add the eggs, sherry and cream, and season well with salt and pepper.

3. Arrange the bay leaves and juniper berries in the base of a 500 g/1lb loaf tin. Stretch the bacon rashers to line the base and sides of tin.

4. Spoon in the chicken mixture and fold the excess bacon over the top. Put the loaf tin in a roasting tin half-filled with boiling water.

5. Bake in a preheated oven, 180°C (350°F), Gas Mark 4, for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out quite dry and the mixture is shrinking around the sides.

6. Leave to cool with a weight placed on the top and chill.