party ham pâté
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Yield 4 big portions
As discussed at length above, Sonia Allison's microwave party ham pâté is a surefire winner at the dinner table, as long as you change the ingredients, method of cooking and presentation style. But if you follow a recipe and change all the ingredients, method and delivery, is it the original recipe? Or your own? Either way, if you stick to the original method you'll be left with a Ship of Faeces, I guarantee.
This makes enough for four giant portions and if you do as we did, it goes really well with bread and piccalilli. As ever, calorie counts are approximate.
Oh: although Sonia feels the need to decorate the top with eighty-seven keels of dried chives, you absolutely shouldn't. I sneezed bringing this to the table (it's OK, we're among friends) and thought I was at a leprechaun's wedding. If you must adorn it, try just a sprinkling of fresh chives.
Ingredients
- 800g unsmoked gammon joint
- two large white onions
- two cloves of garlic
- three large eggs
- thirty olives stuffed with pimento
- salt and pepper for days
- 25g parsley (fresh is better)
- one teaspoon of dried sage
Instructions
You will need a food processor / blender for this recipe - see notes if you don't have one
- cook the ham as per the instructions - we use our Instant Pot - about twenty five minutes on high pressure and the whole thing is cooked and ready to shred
- blitz the cooled ham in a food processor until very fine indeed
- do the same with the onion and garlic and combine with the ham
- stir the eggs into the mixture with a really good pinch or two of pepper and one of salt (don't add too much salt, the ham is already salty) together with the pepper and sage
- grease a loaf tin - and really go for it mind you - and then press the mixture in and cook for around an hour on 170 degrees or until the egg has cooked through
- allow to cool and adorn with the sliced pimento olives and whatever else you want
- slice and serve
Notes
Recipe
- you could do so much with this - add curry powder for a bit of spice, chopped egg rather than beaten, different herbs and spices and all that
- not got a food processor - shred the ham with two forks as much as you can instead - it'll be coarser, but so am I
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- we have silicone loaf tins and they work superbly as you can just plop the food straight out - the ones we use are cheap on Amazon nearly all the time and can be found here
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Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2022/02/10/party-ham-pate/