Name: Fegato alle Uova Sode (Chicken Liver Pâté, Italian Style)
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons (or as needed) chicken or duck fat or olive oil; 6 to 8 hard-cooked large eggs; Salt and freshly ground pepper; 1 pound chicken, duck, or goose livers, well trimmed; ⅓ cup dry white wine; 2 to 3 medium onions, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Mediterranean Kitchen

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

About

This is pretty close to the quintessential chopped chicken liver pâté but with an Italian touch. I found variations of this Jewish recipe in a book about Italian Renaissance cuisine from Padua. And here you thought that this was a New York deli item!

Ingredients

8 tablespoons (or as needed) chicken or duck fat or olive oil
2 to 3 medium onions, finely chopped

Method

Melt half the fat in each of 2 sauté pans or skillets over medium heat. Add the onions to one pan and cook, stirring frequently, until dark golden brown. Add the livers to the other pan and sauté until pink in the center but not quivery. Add the white wine in the last few minutes of cooking and let most of it evaporate. Coarsely chop the livers and eggs separately. If you chop these in a food p