Sunday, January 20, 2013

Tapenade

This is basically a recipe from allrecipes, a little modified.

Ingredients:
3 cloves garlic (peeled, but whole)
1 cup (a little more) kalamata olives, pitted
2 tbsp capers
3 tbsp fresh italian parsley
juice from 1 lemon (fresh squeezed is best)
2 tbsp olive oil

1. Put the garlic in your food processor and chop it.

2. Add everything else and chop it.

3. Careful, you want it to come out chopped, not pureed.

Eat on crackers, bread, raw veggies, etc.  Particularly good paired with brie.  This recipe came out quite strong tasting, between the capers and the fresh-squeezed lemon juice.  Bottled might mollify that a bit, but we liked the intense flavor.

I'm sure everybody's French aunt has her own home recipe for this, but this one was amazingly easy and tasty.