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Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Appetizers & Snacks
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 8)

Ingredients

Crostini Alla Toscana
Crostini Alla Toscana
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Instructions

  1. For the chicken liver cream, clean the chicken liver and cut into small pieces. Put 1 bay leaf and ½ teaspoon juniper berries in a bowl, pour in 1/8 l red wine.
  2. Let it steep overnight.
  3. Finely chop 1 onion, 1 celery stalk and 1 carrot. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and melt 1 tablespoon of butter in it. Braise the vegetables.
  4. Remove the chicken liver from the marinade, dry a little, sieve the stock. Add the liver to the vegetables, fry briefly. Stir in 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and the stock. Simmer gently for 10 minutes, season with salt, pepper, juice and zest of ½ unsprayed lemon. Finely chop the parsley, stir in. Let cool down a little, then finely puree with 1 tablespoon of capers in a blender. Stir in 1 tablespoon of softened butter, season to taste.
  5. For the olive paste, rinse, dry and cut 2 anchovy fillets. Core the chilli pepper. Puree with the olives, all the herbs, 4 cloves of garlic and 1 tablespoon capers. Gradually pour in about 100 ml of olive oil until a creamy paste is formed. Season to taste with 1 teaspoon lemon juice, salt and freshly ground pepper.
  6. Toast the white bread slices in the toaster or in the oven. Brush each slice with one of the pastes.