hot olives + baguette = #hot-and-happening
August 7, 2012 in Snacks, Vegetarian
Hot Olives – A few weeks ago I was on a business trip in the bustling metropolis of Johannesburg, Guateng. The City of Gold has plenty of interesting foodie places well worth seeking out…Some colleagues and I ended up in a very interesting restaurant that serves both gossip and glitter to the well-heeled of Parkhurst and surrounds. We ordered a few small starters to share and one of them was hot olives with baguette. Never in my life would I have thought of heating olives in olive oil – isn’t it kind of like smuggling sand in the desert? Well, just so you know, this little starter tapas was so delicious. Heating the olives gives this stone fruit an undeniably new dimension. Dipping the fresh baked bread into the fragrant hot oil just seems to forge with the olives… leaving a most tantalizing taste….wash this down with some chilled wine and you could swear that you were sipping wines with the gods of ancient Greece!
It is just one of those really simple dishes you can make on the run or when guests come knocking unannounced…simple yet oh so sophisticatedly #hot-and-happening.
Serves: One bowl of starter to share / tapas
Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 7 min
Ingredients
150 ml Virgin olive oil
1t Fresh rosemary (not chopped)
1t Parsley – roughly chopped
2 Red chillies chopped (I like it hot but you can leave the chillie out of the recipe if you are not fond of the fiery stuff)
1 Garlic clove – finely sliced
200g Kalamata olives
1 Spring onion – chop the stalks and leaves
1 Fresh baguette
Method
1. Heat the olive oil, rosemary, chillies, parsely and garlic slowly in a pan for a 5 minutes minutes. Just to infuse the flavours with the oil.
2. Add the olives and heat through for about 2 minutes.
3. Add the spring onion at the end, give it a good stir + serve with baguette.
ninatimm said on August 7, 2012
Love, love, love the pictures……
lifeisazoobiscuit said on August 8, 2012
thanks x
Healthy Vegetarian Foods By Usha Singh said on August 7, 2012
Hi Anel–gorgeous pictures and those lovely warm olives and bread is just divine
lifeisazoobiscuit said on August 8, 2012
thanks usha, it’s also so easy
Sous Chef said on August 7, 2012
I adore olives so this would be right up my street!
janicetripepi said on August 8, 2012
Toss those olives into a nice bowl of spaghetti …. oh my! I definately see the world through the pasta pot! Devine Olives Anel xxxx
lifeisazoobiscuit said on August 12, 2012
thanks Janice, what a good idea! x
MITZI REDDY said on August 8, 2012
Your pics makes the olives look so yummy – thanks for sharing, Anel – enjoy Women’s day and have a great weekend.
lifeisazoobiscuit said on August 8, 2012
Thanks so much mitzi – hope you get spoiled on women’s day and have a super weekend. x
pinkpolkadot said on August 9, 2012
Your styling is beautiful… but most of all I just adore that pink heart shaped ramekin!
lifeisazoobiscuit said on August 12, 2012
thanks so much x