Best French Terrine Recipes

FRENCH COUNTRY-STYLE TERRINE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Bring a small pot of water to boil. Add pistachios and boil for 2 minutes. Drain, then remove skins.
• Line a 6 cup ceramic terrine or 9" x 5" loaf pan with bacon. Place on baking tray.
• Cu chicken breast into long thin strips. Place in small bowl with 1/2 cup madeira and season with salt and pepper. Let marinate while preparing the stuffing.
• For the stuffing: In a large bowl, mix together pork, veal, liver, onion, garlic, kosher salt and thyme. Add pistachios. Whisk remaining Madeirawith the eggs, add to stuffing and mix very well.
• Take a small piece of stuffingand flatten into a mini patty. Cook in a fry pan, then taste to check seasonings.
• Drain chicken strips and discard marinade. Place 1/3 of the stuffing in the prepared terrine and pack down. Arrange half the chicken strips on top. Top this layer with another 1/3 of the stuffing, press well; and add remainign chicken. Top with final 1/3 of stuffing and pack down. Push any exposed nut into the stuffing. Place bay leaves on top. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2 hours until firm and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out hot.
• Allow to cool thouroughly. Keep refrigerated, but serve at room temperature with fresh crusty bread and cornichons.

FRENCH TERRINE

Steps:

• The evening before: Marinate the chicken livers overnight in the cognac (or port, or Madeira). If you do not have time to do that, simply sauté them lightly with butter and reserve. Sauté slowly the shredded onions and shallots in some butter, they must get transparent but not brown. Grind the bread (if no grinder, boil it with a little milk and purée with fork). Put the sausage meat, ground pork, bread, shredded onions and shallots and the eggs in a big bowl and mix thoroughly (it might be useful to use your hands instead of a spoon!). Add the spices and 4 tbsp of the cognac (or port, or Madeira wine). Cover all the sides of the terrine dish(es) with caul fat of bacon slices. Depending on the depth of the dish, you can do three layers or five layers of meat: Start with one layer of the mixture, add one layer of chicken livers, repeat if possible, and always finish with one layer of the mixture. Cover with the bay leaves for decoration. Close the crépine on top, (or cover with a few slices bacon) so as to completely surround the terrine. Make a dough with some flour and a little bit of water, roll it and put it all around the edges of the dish. It must be placed is such a way that when you cover with the lid, no air will be able to get in between the dish and the lid. Push in the lid. It will cause the dough to bulge slightly. Put the terrine dish in another bigger dish filled with water, and cook at high temperature (525 Farenheit) for 1 ½ hour. Let cool and put in the fridge. Wait at least 12 hours before eating. Enjoy with cornichons. Serves