La Boqueria Marinated Spanish Olives

Submitted by MarraMamba

"Recipe 6 (and final one) of "Tapas party for 8" by Chef Mullen. Simple but wonderful"

 

• Ready In: 6mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 8 appetizer/tapas

ingredients

• 1 cup mixed Spanish olives (arbequina, gordal, coquillo, Obregon)
• 1⁄4 cup arbequina olive oil (this is a Spanish oil, but you can substitute any type you wish)
• 1⁄8 cup fino sherry wine vinegar (or any sherry vinegar)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon orange zest
• 1⁄4 teaspoon lemon zest
• chopped herbs, such as thyme, rosemary and oregano
• red pepper flakes

directions

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Marinade 30 minutes to 6 hours.
3. serve.

Reviews

[susie cooks]

Yum!! I love the combo of olives with citrus. The pepper flakes just added a little heat. I could not stop eating them!!! Made for ZWT 5.

 

[2Bleu]

These are wonderful treats as a side dish to enhance just about any meal. We used red wine vinegar in place of sherry wine vinegar and also used black olives. They are very tasty and flavorful. They would be great served warm also. If you think olives are just so-so, you should try this recipe, it gives great new flavor to the plain old olive.

 

[Chickee]

Tasty olives! Really different flavour with the zest. I used thyme, lots of fresh oregano and some parsley. Nice change for summer antipasto.

 

[chia2160]

i used a mix of black and green olives, added rosemary and thyme, and was liberal with the zests. the sherry vinegar gives these a lovely flavor.