CHRISTMAS PâTé WITH PISTACHIOS
CHRISTMAS PâTé WITH PISTACHIOS
CHRISTMAS PâTé WITH PISTACHIOS

Ingredients
  • 3 corn fed chicken breasts
  • skin removed
  • 100g/3½oz chicken livers
  • 180g/6oz pork belly
  • minced
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 unwaxed lemon
  • zest only
  • 2 shallots
  • finely sliced
  • 2 sprigs lemon thyme
  • leaves picked
  • 50g/1¾oz pistachios
  • blanched
  • 20 thin slices streaky bacon
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
  • Cut each chicken breast into three big slices and set aside.
  • Mix the chicken livers into the minced pork and season with the salt and pepper. Add the lemon zest
  • shallots
  • thyme leaves and pistachios.
  • Line a terrine mould or loaf tin with the bacon
  • leaving enough overhanging to cover the top when filled. Press in the mince and chicken pieces and cover completely with the bacon.
  • Place the mould in a roasting tin filled with enough water to reach half way up the side of the mould.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.
  • Allow to cool for 24 hours in the fridge then slice. Serve with pickled onions or gherkins
  • toast and salad leaves.