Olive Tapenade Recipe
Olive Tapenade recipe to serve and wow your guests! This is an easy recipe for homemade olive tapenade using kalamata and black olives. For easy appetizers that deliver flavour, texture and style start right here!
Servings: 10
Calories: 53kcal
Equipment
- Food processor
Ingredients
Olive Tapenade Recipe
- 350 grams kalamata olives (pitted) Note 1
- ¾ black olives (slices)
- ¼ cup capers drained
- 4 anchovy fillets drained
- 3 cloves garlic peeled, end sliced off
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (20ml)
- ¼ cup curly leaf parsley
Instructions
Olive Tapenade Recipe
- Add kalamata olives, black olives, capers, anchovies, olive oil, lemon juice and parsley to a food processor Note 1, Note 2
- Pulse for less than 1 minute till the majority of the ingredients are finely diced Note 3
- Garnish with a little extra diced parsley and serve with toast points.
Video
Notes
- Note 1 For some recipes where I use kalamata olives I notice that there is still a pit in 1 - 2 of the olives, so remove it. For this recipe, it is fast, simple and easy, so I drain the olives and throw them into the food processor as is. I don't go through and check each one 'just in case'. Ain't nobody got time for that! Besides, you will hear a pit banging on the blade a it won't 'blitz' and you can stop and remove it.
- Note 2 This is one of the very few recipes that I don't use salt and pepper for. One reason is that you don't need it as you already get the salty taste coming through from the other ingredients and brine-y type flavor (sorry not sure brine-y is a word, but you know what I mean). The 2nd is that I don't want to add those textures to the recipe. With the olive and caper combo along with the liquids we get a semi chunky textured dish which tastes amazing. I don't want to add any ingredient ie salt and pepper which may add grit that doesn't get fully processed. As our method to make this is in tent on a chunky texture we are not processing the ingredients for long enough to ensure that there is no grit hence, leaving salt and pepper out is recommended.
- Note 3 The blitz time in the food processor is about 10 seconds, this will ensure our texture stays nice and chunky and not blended to a mushy pulp.
Nutrition
Calories: 53kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 124mg | Potassium: 18mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 132IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg