Chicken and Vegetable Terrine
- 1/2 pound carrots, peeled
- 3/4 pound haricots verts, parboiled for 5 minutes or until tender
- 1 1/4 pounds ground chicken
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup finely chopped shallots and 1 clove garlic cooked until tender in 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large clove garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup Champagne or white wine vinegar
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup soft white bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup pitted black Nicoise olives
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease an 8 x 4 inch glass loaf pan.
- Cut the carrots into strips the length of the carrots but only 1/4 wide (should be evenly cut 1/4inch square).
- Parboil for 6 to 7 minutes or until cooked through but still with some texture to them.
- Puree ground chicken a little bit at a time in a food processor with the oil and vinegar and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- Add cooked shallots, garlic, bread crumbs and egg and puree until very smooth.
- Divide chicken puree into 3 bowls.
- In one add the carrots; in the other the green beans and leave the puree plain in the third.
- Using your hands mix the vegetables into the chicken mixture in each bowl making sure they are completely coated.
- Set a tiny bit of plain chicken puree in bottom of loaf pan, spreading it with a rubber spatula to cover entire bottom surface.
- Then cover with a layer of carrot, keeping carrots in as straight a line as possible.
- Next layer green bean mixture over carrots.
- With a spatula layer some plain chicken binder on top of green beans just enough to barely coat them.
- Then set a row of black olives down the center.
- Dot olives with a paper thin layer of plain chicken binder.
- Then repeat green bean layer, then top with the carrot layer and finally a layer of chicken binder which should entirely cover vegetables.
- Cover the top with buttered brown paper pressing paper directly on top of terrine.
- Cover top with foil.
- Tap the loaf pan on the counter a few times to eliminate air bubbles.
- Place terrine in a larger pan filled with enough boiling water to reach 3/4 of the way up the sides of the loaf pan.
- Set in oven and bake for 1 hour.
- Remove the pan from the oven.
- Let terrine rest for another hour or until it is cooler.
- Leave the foil cover on.
- Drain off excess water.
- Run a sharp knife between the terrine and the pan to loosen then carefully turn it upside down on a board.
- Terrine should come out easily.
- Pat dry with paper towels.
- Wrap in plastic wrap, then in foil and let it cool in fridge for 3 hours or overnight.
carrots, haricots verts, ground chicken, vegetable oil, shallots, clove garlic, white wine vinegar, egg, soft white bread crumbs, nicoise olives, salt
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chicken-and-vegetable-terrine-recipe.html (may not work)