Herby Olive Tapenade Appetizer Recipe
This Father's Day, we're sharing the peak culinary achievement of our marketing coordinator's dad Ted—this delicious, herby olive tapenade dip. He and Jasmine have been making this for so many years most would consider it his peak culinary achievement. Bow down to the olive!
by Ted Cheeseman | @happywhale_official
Instructions
Active Time: 20 minutes
Full Time: 20 minutes
Ideally start this tapenade party by getting your hands on the freshest herbs possible.
Roughly chop 6 cloves of garlic and place in a small to medium frying pan. Add 1 big pinch of anise seed (if you're including).
Cover the garlic in about a quarter inch of Sizzle and turn the burner on very low. Keep an eye on the garlic, it should come to a very low simmer. When the garlic has softened, but not browned, and you can smell it in the air, take the pan off the heat and set aside.
While the garlic is cooking, pick the leaves off 3 big sprigs of fresh rosemary, 3 big sprigs of thyme, and 1 very large bunch of basil. Pile all together on a large cutting board.
Drain the brine out of 1 can of black olives, 1 can of green olives, and 1 can of kalamata olives. Pour all the olives onto the pile of herbs.
Start chopping, using a bench scraper to corral the olives. Try to get all the components somewhat evenly chopped, but the beauty here is in the variation. Generally, the biggest olive piece should be around the size of a very large pea.
When you’re satisfied with chopping, gather all the bits into a large bowl. Pour the reserved garlic, anise seed, and Sizzle from the pan into the bowl and mix it all up.
Taste it by piling a bit of tapenade on a cracker. If you’re Jasmine and you’ve got it right – this is your Ratatouille moment.
Take it up 10 notches by adding a bit of Drizzle to each cracker. We find that it really shines when you finish each cracker individually :-) <3
Enjoy! Store it in the fridge if you haven't already finished the bowl.
