3 Color Pate

In the world of pate recipes, this is one of the tastiest recipes for carrot pate because it includes a whole host of other vegetables. Make this vegetarian French pate recipe at your earliest convenience.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup vegetable stock
1 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
2 egg whites or 1 egg worth of egg replacer
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1 pound spinach
1/2 pound cauliflower
1/2 pound carrots

Instructions

Cook onions and garlic in stock until tender. Add mushrooms and cook 2-3 more minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated. Cool. Place in blender with spices and egg stuff and blend.
Wash the spinach, and cook for 2-3 minutes in the pan that cooked the onions. Steam the cauliflower and carrots; mash them separately.
Combine spinach, 1/3 mushroom mixture, 1/3 breadcrumbs. Repeat with cauliflower and carrots, keeping them separate. Also add some salt here; the cauliflower and carrots seem to need it.
Put the 3 mixtures in the loaf pan(s) in whatever order you want to see the colored layers.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-40 minutes, until it's firm. Serve hot or cold.