Liver Parfait

Name: Liver Parfait
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters smoked bacon, chopped (optional); 1 teaspoon brandy; 59 milliliters cream; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 envelope granulated gelatin; 12 juniper berries, crushed; 454 grams pork, veal, or poultry liver, diced; 10 servings Salt and pepper; 315 milliliters salted butter; 1 teaspoon sugar

Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 311 calories, 10g of protein, and 29g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 10. If you have salt and pepper, granulated gelatin, juniper berries, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.

Instructions

Cook over medium heat the liver, bacon (if using) shallots, and juniper berries in a pan with 1 tablespoon of the butter, stirring frequently until the liver and onions are lightly browned, about 5 minutes.

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Juniper Berries

Shallot

Butter

Onion

Bacon

Liver

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Frying Pan

Stir in the sugar, add the brandy, and ignite.

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Brandy

Sugar

When the flames have died down, remove the mixture from the pan and set aside.

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Frying Pan

Add 1/2 cup of the muscatel and deglaze the pan, scraping the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook until the liquid is reduced into a syrupy mixture of 2 tablespoons or so.

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Frying Pan

Remove from the heat and stir in the rest of the butter and cream.

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Butter

Cream

Add the liver and onions back to the mixture. Season with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Onion

Liver

Spoon the mixture into 10 ramekins, filling no more than 1/2 full.

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Ramekin

Let cool.

In the meantime, bloom the gelatin by adding the powder in the packet to 3 tablespoons of water in a small bowl.

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Gelatin

Water

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Bowl

Let stand 5 minutes.

Heat the remaining wine in the pan.

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Wine

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Frying Pan

Remove from the heat and add the gelatin mixture.

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Gelatin

Let cool to room temperature, then pour the gelatin wine mixture into the ramekins, completely covered the liver and onions. Cover the ramekins with plastic wrap and place them into the refrigerator to set.

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Gelatin

Onion

Liver

Wine

Wrap