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Filipino Style Liver Spread

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Filipino Style Liver Spread

This Filipino-style liver spread is a rustic, bacon-rich pâté with a gentle chili warmth.

25 minutes · Serves 6

Ingredients for Filipino Style Liver Spread

  • 250 g liver, cubed
  • 100 g bacon, chopped
  • 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons full-fat fresh milk
  • 50 g butter
  • 1 small shallot, minced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 bird's eye chili
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Oil

How to cook Filipino Style Liver Spread

  1. 1.Cover liver with 1 cup milk and refrigerate at least 1 day. Drain and pat dry before cooking.
  2. 2.Heat a little oil in a pan and fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon, leaving rendered fat in the pan.
  3. 3.Fry liver in the same pan until well cooked and browned on all sides. Remove.
  4. 4.Cook garlic and shallot in the pan over low heat for 2 minutes. Turn off heat, add butter and liver, and cool.
  5. 5.Process liver, bacon, rendered fat, butter, pan bits, chili, salt, and pepper to a slightly textured paste.
  6. 6.Blend in remaining milk 1 tablespoon at a time until spreadable.
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