Pâté Toasts
Pâté on bread is simple, and it lives or dies on two details. First, the baguette has to be dried to a crunch, because a soft base under a rich spread tastes raw. Second, pâté needs acidity, or by the third toast the whole thing turns heavy.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 25 min
- Servings
- 8
- Level
- Easy
- Per serving
- 260 kcal
Ingredients
The toasts
On top
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What to use instead
A spoon of cranberry sauce, thick plum jam or a few pickled lingonberries all do the same job as the onion jam.
Makes: 24 toasts, 8 portions
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Method
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Step 1: Toast the baguette
Lay the slices on a tray, sprinkle with oil and dry them for 8–10 minutes at 190 °C until golden. They should snap, not bend.
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Step 2: Rub with garlic
Rub the warm toasts lightly with the cut clove. Warm bread takes exactly as much garlic as it needs; on cold bread you cannot taste it.
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Step 3: Make the onion jam
Cook the onion in a spoonful of oil for 10 minutes until soft, add the sugar and balsamic and cook 3–4 minutes more, until sticky and dark.
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Step 4: Let the pâté warm up
Cold pâté tears the bread and spreads in lumps. Twenty minutes at room temperature and it goes on smoothly.
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Step 5: Assemble
Spread the pâté generously, add half a teaspoon of onion jam and a thyme leaf. Serve at once, while the toast still crunches.
Tips & variations
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Tip
The toasts can be dried a day ahead and kept in a paper bag — in plastic they go limp overnight.
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Tip
Make at least double the jam: it keeps two weeks in the fridge and rescues any cheese, cold cut or sandwich.
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Swap
A spoon of cranberry sauce, thick plum jam or a few pickled lingonberries all do the same job as the onion jam.
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Storage
Assembled toasts last an hour at most. Separately: pâté three days, jam two weeks, toasts one day.
Nutrition
| 1 serving | Whole dish 8 servings | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 260 kcal | 2,080 kcal |
| Protein | 9 g | 72 g |
| Fat | 16 g | 128 g |
| Carbohydrates | 19 g | 152 g |
Approximate values calculated from standard ingredient data.
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