Bean and Olive Pate With Eggs
- Ready In:
- 23mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 50 g kalamata olives, pitted
- 2 (800 g) can cannellini beans, well-drained
- 4 garlic cloves
- 9.85 ml fresh rosemary, finely chopped
- 1.23 ml dried thyme
- 1.23 ml dried basil
- 29.58 ml lemon juice
- salt, to taste
- fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- 88.74 ml olive oil
- 12 slice crusty bread, lightly toasted
- 1 sprig flat leaf parsley, to garnish
directions
- Cook the eggs in a pan of boiling water for 8 minutes, drain, then cover with cold water and allow to cool.
- While the eggs are cooking, finely chop the olives; peel and crush 3 of the cloves of garlic and set aside the other clove of garlic; peel the eggs and cut them into quarters and set aside.
- Put the well-drained beans, crushed garlic, rosemary, thyme, basil and lemon juice in a food processor, season with salt and pepper and blend until smooth.
- With the food processor still running, gradually add the oil, and continue to process until the oil has been blended into the rest of the ingredients.
- If serving as an appetiser or entrée, transfer the paté into 4 ramekins and, distributing them between the four ramekins, stir just over a quarter of the olives into the paté, then sprinkle the rest of the olives on top. If serving as a paté to accompany dips, do the same but simply use one serving bowl.
- Toast the bread, and rub the whole garlic over one side of the toast slices, drizzle with a little olive oil and season with pepper.
- Serve the paté, garnished with parsley, with the eggs and toast.
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Reviews
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This was definately worth the dark and rainy trip down the bottom of the garden to get the rosemary. We had this with a lovely crisp salad and pitta bread. The pate is so good there was no need for any salad dressing, so we had one heck of a healthy meal. I also reduced the amount of olive oil by a third by using some bean water in its place. Wonderful.
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