LEVERPOSTEJ WITH ROASTED MUSHROOMS AND BACON
With the exception of vegetarians, in Denmark most people will have leverpostej in their refrigerator, as it is a very common lunch choice. Danes love their dark rye bread and they eat it with different toppings in an open sandwich-style, also known as smørrebrød.
For a Christmas lunch Danes will traditionally eat a lot of rye bread (and white bread),and dish after dish will come out with different choices to put on your bread.
The leverpostej is usually served warm and with roasted mushrooms and bacon, but fried onions, pickled beets or sweet pickled cucumbers are also an excellent choice.
My recipe doesn’t require lard, which is the traditional way of making leverpostej.
I make it this way because it is easier and I feel that I am getting enough animal fat through the bacon. It is an excellent recipe and I have made it for years at Danish Christmas parties.
Please note that the pictures posted below shows a double portion.
- • 150 grams (5.3 oz.) of butter (melted)
- • 300 grams (10.6 oz.) of either pork liver or calf liver
- • 1 shallot (approx. 75 grams)
- • 1½ teaspoons coarse salt
- • ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- • ¼ teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- • ½ teaspoon fresh ground peppercorn
- • 1 large egg
- • 1 cup (~250 ml) skim milk (save 3 tablespoons of milk)
- • 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
- • Rye bread
- • Pan roasted sliced white button mushrooms
- • Bacon
- • Two 25 oz. aluminum pans
- • Handheld blender or food processor
- 1.Melt the butter in a small pot.
- 2. Cut all the liver and onion in small squares and add in in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, except for 3 tablespoon of milk and the flour.
- 3. In a small separate bowl stir the flour with the 3 tablespoons of milk together, and then add it to the bowl with the other ingredients.
- 4. Use the hand blender or food processor and blend the entire mixture until everything is well blended.
- 5. Spread the mixture equally into the two aluminum pans (make sure to not fill them all the way up since the leverpostej will expand a bit while baking in the oven, and can overflow. Unless you are excited by the thought of scraping leverpostej from the bottom of your oven, you can do as I and put an extra baking pan under the cooking pan to prevent this)
- 6. If you have extra leverpostej mix, you can cook the rest in a little oven safe porcelain bowl.
- 7. Place the leverpostej pans in a cold oven. Set at 347 oF (175 oC) and bake for approx. 1 hour, at which point the leverpostej will look a little burned on the top. Turn off the oven and let the leverpostej stand in the oven for approx. 10 more minutes.
- 8. Serve the leverpostej warm on a serving plate and garnish with pan roasted mushrooms and crispy bacon along with rye bread.
- Leverpostej can easily be frozen and heated for next enjoyment.
