Crushed Midway Olive Salad

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The gentle flavors of preserved citrus rind and bitter-orange marmalade springiness a beauteous boost to midway (semi-ripe) oregon ripe greenish olives.

Using a mortar and pestle to make the crockery yields a wonderfully rustic consistency. But the look tin beryllium done successful a mini nutrient processor; usage abbreviated pulses.

We recovered pitted ripe greenish olives connected the olive barroom astatine Whole Foods Markets. Among home jarred/canned brands, writer Paula Wolfert prefers Lindsay's Select Medium Home-Style Cured Pitted Green Olives oregon Graber's pitted ripe olives.

This crockery needs 3 days of mellowing successful the refrigerator to make large flavor. If cautiously prepared, it volition support for much than a week.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 Makes a generous 1 cup

6 ounces drained pitted ripe greenish olives (see headnote)
1 ample caput garlic, boiled for 5 minutes successful water, past drained, peeled and crushed
1/2 spoon kosher salt, positive much to taste
1 tablespoonful chopped cilantro leaves
1/2 spoon cumin seed, preferably Moroccan
Rind of 1/4 preserved lemon, pulp removed, rind rinsed and dried, past chopped into precise bladed strips (julienne)
1/2 tablespoonful bitter-orange marmalade
1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 spoon saccharine paprika
1/4 spoon crushed coriander
1/4 spoon cayenne pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
130
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
7 g
Sodium
690 mg
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Paula Wolfert's "The Food of Morocco" (Ecco, 2011).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 13, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026