Frosted Braunschweiger Pate Recipes

PATE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix braunschweiger liver sausage, cream cheese, onion, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Form into a ball shape. Wrap with plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator at least 1 hour before serving.

CHICKEN LIVER PATE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat 1 1/2 teaspoons butter and 1 tablespoon oil over medium. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 10 minutes. Add carrot, thyme, and cayenne and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until carrot is tender, 5 minutes. (If mixture is dry or begins to overbrown, add up to 2 tablespoons water.) Transfer mixture to a food processor.
• Return skillet to medium-high and add remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons butter and remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Pat livers dry with paper towels. Season livers with salt and pepper and add to skillet. Cook until golden brown on all sides and cooked through, 6 minutes. Transfer livers to processor and pulse, scraping down sides as needed, until mixture is mostly smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper and let cool. Transfer pate to a small bowl and serve at room temperature with toasts or crackers.

FROSTED BRAUNSCHWEIGER PATE

Steps:

• Mash the braunschweiger with a fork. Add 1 clove minced garlic,dried basil, and onion and mix thoroughly.Mold into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and chill.
• For the frosting: Blend the cream cheese, 1 clove garlic, Tabasco, and mayo, using a fork or electric mixer. Whip until fluffy. Frost the chilled ball ane refrigerate at least 4 hours.
• Just before serving slice olives and decorate around the buttom of the ball with the olive slices. Put a sprig of parsley on top and decorate with several slices of olives. Surround the ball with crackers, Triskets, or party rye.
• For the goblin I used sliced olives for the eyes. A pickled banana pepper for the nose. The ears were cut from a green pepper, along with the eye brows. The fangs for the mouth were carrot pieces. The toes were olives that I took out the pimentos and added slices of red pepper. The hair is shredded red cabbage. Fun to make and cute to serve.

FROSTED PATé

Steps:

• In a small mixer bowl at low speed, beat braunschweiger or liverwurst, 1/4 cup mayonnaise, egg, onion, mustard and thyme until well blended, scraping as needed.With wet hands, shape mixture on a serving plate into a bell, ball or holly leaf. Cover and chill for 30 minutes or place in freezer for 10 minutes.Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix cream cheese, 1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise and horseradish until well blended. Frost top and sides of pate. Place an upside-down bowl over pate and chill at least 2 or up to 24 hours.About 30 minutes before serving, garnish with pimiento, olives, watercress, green pepper or almonds. Serve with crackers or bread.