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Marinated Olives Recipe


Marinated Olives Recipe
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This makes 4 1/2 cups of deliciousness. The servings will vary depending on your guests' hunger...make extra. The prep time includes the 6 hours minimum needed to marinate these properly. Enjoy. Recipe adapted from Gourmet.

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Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup fresh tarragon leaves
  • 1/4 cup fresh thyme leaves
  • 5 flat anchovy fillets
  • 2 cups drained brine-cured black olives such as Kalamata and/or Niçoise
  • 2 cups drained brine-cured green olives such as picholine
  • 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1/2 cup thinly sliced fennel bulb (sometimes called anise)
  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons minced onion
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon anise seeds
  • 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
  • 2 teaspoons dried basil, crumbled
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 to 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

Directions
  1. Chop tarragon and thyme and mince anchovies.
  2. In a deep bowl stir together all ingredients except vinegar.
  3. Marinate olive mixture, covered and chilled, stirring occasionally, at least 6 hours and up to 3 days.
  4. Bring olive mixture to room temperature before proceeding.
  5. To serve olives, transfer to a bowl with a slotted spoon and drizzle with vinegar to taste.

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My kind of olives. Thanks for a great post. Bookmarked to make soon. :)


These sound very good and the way my family eats olives, 4-1/2 cups ought to just about do it! Thanks for the great post


Pit in the olive? This one sounds really good,Grandson can eat his weight in olives. Thank-you for the recipe


Love olives - hope I can wait for them to finish marinating!


Sounds good


My mouth is watering just reading. Thanks Lunny.


Yum Vickie! I can just taste a fresh chunk of chewy bread dipped in the oil of this recipe. This is a bursting with flavor 5!


This sounds great, can't wait to try.


While in Europe, we ate all kinds of olives and loved them all!! yummmmmm gotta make these!! got my 5


Wow! The liquorish flavor from the fennel bulb is so wonderful in this marinaded olive recipe. You have done it again Vickie no wonder your friends are pounding at your kitchen door "let me in"
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