Lemon and Sardine Pâté

Name: Lemon and Sardine Pâté
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; small teaspoon French mustard; lemon leaves or sprigs of dill for decoration; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 225 g/8 oz butter or 100 g/4 oz each cream cheese and butter; 225 g/8 oz butter or 100 g/4 oz each cream cheese and butter; juice of ½ lemon; 225 g/8 oz butter or 100 g/4 oz each cream cheese and butter; 225 g/8 oz canned sardines; lemon leaves or sprigs of dill for decoration

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz canned sardines
225 g/8

Europe
France
Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Beat together the sardines, with their oil, and the butter (or butter and cream cheese) until well blended. Flavour with the lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper and put into a small pâté dish, or into individual cocotte or ramekin dishes. Decorate with the lemon leaves or dill and chill the pâté well. Serve with fingers of hot toast.

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