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Danish Liver Pate (Leverpostej)

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Recipe for Homemade Danish Lever Pate (leverpostej)

On this page, I would like to share a recipe for homemade Danish Liver Pate or Leverpostej as it is called in Danish. Danish liver pate is probably one of the most traditional Danish food that you can serve together with the Danish rye bread.

Homemade Danish liver pate is mainly based on pork liver and pork fat and then some extra ingredients like onions, eggs, milk and flour. Making a homemade liver pate is super simple and does not require any professional cooking skills.

The ingredients for Danish liver pate

As just said, making a homemade liver pate is actually easy. I can only imagine that the most difficult part is to get a hold of the ingredients. In Denmark bigger supermarkets always have raw pork liver and pork fat on stock in the freezers.

Outside Denmark, you might be able to find these ingredients at your local butcher. None of the ingredients are that special but you still might need to order them in advance from your butcher.

If you know how to find raw liver and pork fat in your home country, I am sure other people would like to hear from you in the comment section below.

Danish Liver pate and Danish rye bread

The best way of serving this liver pate is together with some Danish rye bread, some crisp bacon and some pan fried mushrooms. You can serve a Danish liver pate hot or cold. However, I absolutely prefer my liver pate hot on a slice of rye bread. If you are looking for a recipe for Danish Rye Bread then I have two recipes here on my blog – an easy version and a traditional version. If you have never tried danish rye bread below I suggest the easy version.

Another way of serving liver pate is on a slice of white toast bread. This is especially popular during Christmas time.

When talking about Christmas, a Danish lever pate is a mandatory part of a Danish Christmas dinner together with Danish roasted pork with crackling, Danish red cabbage and Danish Apple Pork.

You can find recipe for a lot of very traditional Danish food here on my blog, just click the traditional Danish section.

Recipe for Danish Liver Pate

Making some homemade Danish liver pate is actually easy. The first thing you have to do is to prepare the pork liver, pork fat and the onions. This is done by running the three ingredients through a meat grinder minimum two times. This will make a nice liver, fat and onions mixture.
Now add eggs, milk, all-purpose flour, salt and pepper.

Mix all the ingredients well together. That is it – this is how easy it is to make a Danish Liver mixture, now we only need to cook it in a water bath in the oven.

Transfer the liver pate to two rectangle foil trays and place them in a large ovenproof pan. Fill the oven pan with water so that the water level reaches the middle of the foil trays. This water bath will make a good heat transfer from the oven to the liver pate.

Now bake the liver pate at 175 C (350 F) for about 35 minutes. The baking time might vary a little due to the size of the foil trays, which might be different from case to case. The core temperature should be around 75 C (176 F).

You might measure this core temperature the first time and then note the total cooking time for the future.



Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)
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Danish Liver Pate
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
45 mins
Total Time
1 hr 5 mins
 

Original and very traditional recipe for Danish Liver Pate. This Liver pate is typically served on a slice of Danish Rye Bread or some white toasted bread. Also, serve with crisp bacon and fried mushrooms. 

Course: Lunch
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients
  • 500 g raw pork liver (1 lb)
  • 250 g pork fat (1/2 lb)
  • 2 onions
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 dl milk (4/5 cup)
  • 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp Pepper
Instructions
  1. Use a meat grinder to grind the raw pork liver, pork fat and onions into a uniform mixture.
  2. Add the eggs, milk, flour, salt and pepper and mix it well with the lever mixture. The liver mixture is now ready to be cooked in to a delicious liver pate.
  3. Pour the liver pate into two or three foil trays
  4. Place the foil trays in an ovenproof pan and fill the pan with water until the water level reaches the middle of the foil trays.
  5. Bake the liver pate at 175 C (350 F) for about 35 minutes. The core temperature should be around 75 C (176 F) when it is ready to be served. If the liver pate takes too much color on the top, you can cover it with some aluminum foil.
Recipe Notes

Serve the Danish liver pate with some Danish rye bread, some crisp bacon and fried mushrooms.



Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)



Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)



Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

Recipe for Homemade Danish Liver Pate (leverpostej)

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Comments

  1. Zohra Weiss says

    January 18, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    Hi! I don’t eat pork, and I’m hoping to try this recipe, but with veal liver. Do you have any suggestions? I’m not sure what to use in replacement of the pork fat.
    Cheers!

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen says

      January 28, 2018 at 8:21 am

      Hi. I’ve never tried this recipe with other ingredients than pork liver and fat. However, I can only imagine that it would also be great made from veal liver and veal fat.

      Reply
      • Poul Wennerberg says

        July 16, 2018 at 9:40 am

        Try a Danish chicken liver pate if you don’t eat pork pork. It not quite the same, but close enough:
        300g chicken liver
        100 .ml olive oil
        1-2 Tbsp all purpose flour
        200 ml milk or cream
        1 whole egg
        1 small onion
        1 tsp salt
        3/4 tsp ground pepper
        1 pinchallspice
        Mix it all in a blender until you have a fluid, homogene paste.
        From here fllow the recipe on is website and serve and with a slice of pickled beetroot instead of mushrooms and bacon.

        Reply
        • Kim Nielsen says

          July 16, 2018 at 10:50 am

          That sounds delicious. I would have to try that one day :-) Thanks for sharing the recipe.

          Reply
  2. Nikol Lohr says

    October 20, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    Thank you so much for this recipe! 25 years ago, I made some new friends on a train to Roskilde. They gave me a place in their tent during the festival, and we spent an afternoon with one of the boy’s grandparents, who lived nearby. They served a homemade pâté I have longed for ever since. This was before general internet use, so I couldn’t email them and beg a recipe like I could today. This is the closest I’ve had since, and I was delighted! I briefly pureed half the batch because the texture I remembered was smoother than what my grinder produced. Both versions are lovely. Now I’m off to buy some mushrooms, to try it with bacon and mushrooms, as you’ve suggested.

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen says

      October 22, 2018 at 6:36 am

      That is a nice story. I happy that you have finally found a recipe which can bring back you memories. :-) The texture of the pate is personal matter. Some like it completely smooth and some like it more coarse.

      Reply
  3. Kjeld Hylfelt says

    October 27, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    So happy to have found this website!

    I have made a few leverpostej in the past few years following recipes very close to this one. For many years it was almost impossible to find pork fat at my grocery. When I did get pork fat, it nearly killed my poor food processor and was labor intensive due to a lot of clean up. I found the pork fat from my butcher difficult to work with and I needed to improvise. I hope you will not think this to be heresy, but… I had collected bacon drippings in a container in my refrigerator for use in other recipes. I used this rendered fat in place of store bought lard. I found the taste to be quite good without burning out the motor of my food processor.

    Other than being non-traditional, can you think of any reason NOT to do this?

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen says

      October 28, 2018 at 11:52 am

      I happy that you like my blog and my recipes. It’s comments like yours that makes me want to continue the work on my blog :-)

      Bacon liver pate – that is totally a thing! You can buy this in almost every Danish supermarked. I can only imagine that you homemade pate with pork fat is very similar :-)

      Reply

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