My Grandmother’s Chopped Liver

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Chopped liver is simply a rustic mentation of liver pâté, lightened and flavored with bulb and egg. Cathy Barrow’s grandmother, Mary Solomon, ever served this savory, satisfying appetizer connected celery oregon toasted challah.

The look calls for schmaltz (cooked and strained chickenhearted fat), which you tin buy, but it’s not hard to marque it astatine location successful the DIY spirit. See the NOTE, below.

The chopped liver tin beryllium refrigerated for nary much than a day. It tin beryllium frozen successful lightly packed serving dishes, archetypal covered with parchment insubstantial pressed straight onto the aboveground and past wrapped wholly successful integrative wrap, for up to 1 month. Defrost successful the refrigerator overnight; bring to country somesthesia earlier serving.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8 (makes 10 ounces)

  • 3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped into quarters
  • 2 mean yellowish onions, chopped into quarters
  • 1 mean shallot, chopped successful half
  • 1/4 cupful homemade oregon store-bought schmaltz, oregon much arsenic needed (see NOTE)
  • Kosher oregon oversea salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • About 6 chicken, duck oregon turkey livers, connective sinew removed (4 ounces total)
  • 1 tablespoonful adust sherry

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    120

  • Fat

    9 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    4 g

  • Sodium

    55 mg

  • Cholesterol

    125 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Sugar

    2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published November 7, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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