Slow-Roasted Spanish Olives With Oranges and Almonds

photo by januarybride
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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20
ingredients
- 2 lbs Spanish olives, such as manzanilla, with pits
- 1 orange, unpeeled, sliced into 1/8 inch circles
- 1 cup whole almond, with skin
- 1⁄4 cup sherry wine vinegar
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 bay leaves
- 10 fresh thyme sprigs
- 1 red chili pepper, halved lengthwise
directions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Combine the olives and the remaining ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Transfer the mixture to a baking dish, cover with foil, and bake for about 2 hours.
- Drain the oil out (keep it to use as a bread dip!).
- Serve the olive mixture warm or at room temperature.
- They go nicely with assorted cheeses!
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Reviews
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So all restaurants should serve these nibblers at the beginning of a meal for two reasons, #1 because they are so good and #2 because the place would smell of heaven!!! The almonds were a little weird for me (the skins kind of poofed up but were still attached to the nut) so next time I will just add them after cooking. I also added about 8 cloves of garlic to roast with the other ingredients. WOW is this pretty and delish!
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Made this over the weekend for a group I host regularly, & although it was really out of the ordinary from what I usually include on my finger food buffet, it was very enthusiastically received, or should I say devoured! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Tagged, made & reviewed in the FAMILY PICKS part of ZWT5]