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Tapenade

How to make it at home: Tapenade — ingredients, steps, safety tips.

Time: 5 minutes · Yield: 1 small jar

Ingredients

  • 1 jar (290 g) pitted Kalamata olives — 160 g drained
  • 1 tbsp capers
  • 2 anchovy fillets
  • 50 ml olive oil
  • 1 tsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 sprig of thyme, leaves only (optional)
  • Ground black pepper

Method

  1. Drain the olives. Blitz the olives, capers, anchovies, oil and vinegar in a small blender.
  2. Season with pepper.
  3. Spoon into a jar or bowl and scatter over the thyme leaves.

Tips

  • Keeps in the fridge for up to 3 days. Spread it on bruschetta or stir it through pasta instead of pesto.
  • The name is Provençal: tapenado comes from tapeno, “caper” (Latin capparis). The American Heritage Dictionary describes tapenade as a paste of capers, black olives and anchovies.

Related topics

📜 Kalamata olives · 🫒 Olive oil · 🥃 Wine vinegar

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