Pate

As I mentioned before, a typical and traditional Polish dinner (do not confuse it with supper which is served at about 6-7 pm), served at around 3-4 pm consists of 2 meals. Soup is the first one. Then comes the meaty dish as the second main.

Of course, Polish traditional and occasional meals have are a whole range dishes, which we serve depending on type of a party. It might be birthdays, name days (which we celebrate as well), wedding parties, etc. Actually, any occasion is good enough to serve additional meals. There are lots of them we kind of can’t imagine not serving as it seems really obvious. Not for everyone here, though. Why not try some of them? One of the dishes served occasionally is pate. Pate is a meaty dish, so all its variations; especially vegetable ones can’t really be called a pate. It’s like putting a recipe for a “carrot jam” – jam is made of fruits. Otherwise is just not right.

Ingredients:

Beef (0,75 kilo)
Pork (0,5 kilo)
Fat bacon (0,5 kilo)
Chap (0,75 kilo)
Pork liver (0,75 kilo)
Salt and pepper
2-3 bay leaves
2 tablespoons of marjoram
Fresh eggs
Bread crumbs

Preparation:

Wash the meet and chop into big chunks (apart from liver). Place into a heat proof pan and roast it till soft (do not roast liver yet). Add salt, pepper and marjoram. When soft, add the liver and roast for next half an hour.
Remove from the oven, cool down and mince 3 times!

While mincing, add bread crumbs to the meat sauce till thick and mince together with the meat. Stir the whole mixture carefully adding eggs.

!! add 2 whole eggs for each kilogram of meat!! Stir the mixture well.

Prepare baking trays by greasing them and coating with bread crumps. Pour the mixture into the baking trays.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Place trays in the oven and bake for about 45 minutes till tops get brown. If not, bake longer and keep checking.

Ready pate remove from the oven and cool down. Pate can be frozen.

Serve pate chilled and sliced on slices of buttered bread. Pate should be served with cranberry sauce, horseradish or mayonnaise. Best horseradish recommended from a Polish shop.