Mushroom Mock Chopped Liver Recipes

MOCK CHOPPED LIVER

Steps:

• Place water, lentils, and bouillon cubes in a pot. Cover pot and cook about 30 minutes or until tender. Drain well.
• Heat oil in skillet, saute onion until it becomes translucent.
• In an electric food processor, grind lentils, onions and walnuts until your desired consistency for the pate is reached. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Chill before serving.

MUSHROOM MOCK CHOPPED LIVER

Steps:

• Spray a large nonstick frying pan with nonstick cooking spray. Add olive oil and heat over medium flame.
• Add the onions and sauté until golden, about 6-8 minutes. If the onions begin to stick, add a little water.
• Add the mushrooms and garlic and cook for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until nicely browned. Remove the pan from the flame and cool slightly.
• In a food processor fitted with the S blade, process walnuts until finely ground, about 10-12 seconds. Add the onion/mushroom mixture, eggs, salt, and pepper. Process with several quick pulses, until just combined.
• Transfer to a container, cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Scoop into individual Bibb lettuce leaves or radicchio lettuce cups, or on salad greens.

MOCK CHOPPED " LIVER " ( MUSHROOMS & LENTILS )

Steps:

• Finely chop both onions but 1/4 leave raw and sauté in oiled frypan till blackened; set aside.
• Coarsely chop the hard boiled eggs and set aside with the browned onion (save a spoon or two of grated egg as a garnish).
• Brown all the mushrooms in a lightly oiled frypan till completely dry and brown, then salt lightly and place in food processor.
• Add 1/4 raw onion and all the remaining ingredients except for the dehydrated onion, browned onion and egg. Blend till smooth.
• Remove from processor and fold in the browned onion, dehydrated onion and chopped egg. Chill overnight and serve.
• Timesaver Tip: Boil the eggs in the pot with the lentils.

VEGAN MUSHROOM LENTIL PâTé

Steps:

• Heat a large nonstick skillet (I use this one) over medium high heat. When hot, add mushrooms, garlic, and dried thyme. Let cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring every 2-3 minutes.
• It shouldn't stick too much since mushrooms release their own liquid, but use the reduced sodium soy sauce / tamari and water mixture to deglaze the pan once while cooking. (Deglaze just means when you pour a little liquid on the pan and stir it around so that all the flavor that's sticking to the bottom of the pan just goes back onto the food.)
• When cooked, drain off any remaining liquid and add to a food processor or blender with remaining ingredients.
• Process or blend until smooth.
• Pack into whatever container you'd like your Pâté to take the shape of. Really pack it in there, pushing it down and smoothing it with a spatula. I've had best results with ceramic and silicone containers as the mould, but glass has worked for me too (just a little bit more finessing to get it out). I have not tried this with a plastic container but it would probably be fine, maybe just requiring that extra bit of effort to release.
• Cover and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours or overnight.
• To release the mushroom Pâté, run a butter knife around the edges, place a plate upside down on top of the open container and flip like a cake onto a cooling rack. You may have to wiggle it a little or hit the bottom of the container a few times. You should hear it slide out.
• Clean up the edges if you need to and decorate the top with extra herbs and spices if you wish.
• Serve chilled with crackers or toasted slices of a baguette. Enjoy!
• Refrigerate leftovers in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Can freeze if needed, thaw overnight in the fridge.

MUSHROOM MOCK CHOPPED LIVER

Steps:

• Heat half the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add onions and toss to coat with oil.
• Cover and reduce heat to medium.
• Cook 10 minutes, tossing once after 5-6 minutes.
• Uncover and stir.
• Cook, stirring and scraping occasionally, for 20-30 minutes, depending on how brown you want them.
• Remove and let cool.
• Add the remaining oil to skillet and heat over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking.
• Add mushrooms, tossing constantly.
• Cook until mushrooms become shrunken and browned.
• Remove and let cool.
• Place onions, mushrooms, and all remaining ingredients in a food processor.
• Pulse to chop coarsely.
• Scrape mixture from the rim down and then from the bottom up.
• Pulse again until mixture is fine but not pasty, and has a spreadable consistency.
• Keeps up to 1 week in refrigerator if tightly covered.