MUSHROOM-BACON PATE

PARTY PATE WITHOUT LIVER

This is heavenly stuff for a buffet, and for those people who love to munch, but hate liver pate. We found it in a magazine some years ago. The magazine has long since been forgotten, but this I know by heart!

Ingredients

(1 large loaf)

1 kg fresh mushrooms, chopped very fine
250 g bacon (or more, to taste)
150 g onion, chopped very fine
100 g celery, chopped very fine
250 g cream cheese, at room temperature
4 eggs
30 g parsley, chopped very fine
250 g dry bread crumbs
5 ml salt
5 ml dried rosemary
5 ml dried oregano
1 ml ground black pepper

Procedure

Fry the bacon and crumble it as fine as possible. Reserve some of the grease.
Chop the mushrooms, onion, celery, and parsley as fine as possible. A food processor works best, but you can do it by hand if need be.
Sautae the onion and celery in the bacon grease until soft, then remove from the grease, and drain.
Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese slightly, and then beat in the eggs. Add all other ingredients to the eggs/cheese mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Grease a large loaf pan or two small, line with foil, and then grease the foil. Pat the mixture into the loaf pan and cover loosely with foil. Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 200C
Let cool completely before serving.

Notes

This pate is actually best when refrigerated before serving. Serve with crackers, or with bread cut into shapes with cookie cutters.

American bacon is called "smoked back bacon" in many other places.

To make this a more elegant buffet dish, garnish the top with a thin layer of aspic.

Rating

Difficulty: easy if you have a food processor.
Time: 20 minutes preparation, several hours baking and cooling.
Precision: Approximate measurement OK.

Contributor

 
Terry Grevstad 
Network Research Corporation, Oxnard, Calif., USA 
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Recipe last modified: 24 Nov 87

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