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Roasted Olives with Fennel, Citrus and Rosemary

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An easy roasted olives recipe with fennel, citrus and rosemary. Make a batch and keep them in the fridge for a quick and healthy snack.

A few weeks ago I was texting back and forth with a friend of mine and he was in the middle of roasting olives. Roasting olives? I have never heard of such a thing. Turns out he and his wife had first tried them while dining out at Seasons 52.

This sparked my curiosity as I am a huge fan of olives. I rarely visit The Fresh Market without hitting up the olives bar. Olives are just full of all that healthy fat we need, and they are so delicious. Especially when they are stuffed with blue cheese or chunks of fresh garlic. Am I right?

I started looking up recipes on the internet and was quite surprised to find a large selection of the many ways to roast olives. I decided to mix and match some of the recipes together to imagine my own version and turns out it was a pretty big hit at my house. Basically, these are quite addictive.

I posted a picture on my Instagram account right after making them one night and I was flooded with requests for the recipe. So here it is- though in my opinion roasted olives are best served warm, I didn’t shy away from eating a big bowl of the olives the following day after they sat in the fridge and cooled overnight. I almost preferred them the next day as all the flavors had a significant amount of time to meld together.

I have also chopped up the leftovers and served them with pasta and garlic butter.

Roasted Olives with Fennel, Citrus, and Rosemary

Roasted Olives with Fennel, Citrus, and Rosemary

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 18 minutes

An easy roasted olives recipe with fennel, citrus and rosemary. Make a batch and keep them in the fridge for a quick and healthy snack.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup green olives with pimentos
  • 1 cup pitted black olives
  • 1 cup green olives stuffed with blue cheese**
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano or Italian seasoning
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried fennel seed
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • pinch of salt and pepper
  • 3-4 large sprigs fresh rosemary
  • juice of 1/2 orange
  • zest of 1/2 orange
  • 1/4 cup fresh minced parsley

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450°
  2. In a medium mixing bowl, toss the olives with the olive oil, garlic, oregano, fennel seed, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper.
  3. Pour the olive mix into a shallow baking dish, try to create a single layer across the pan.
  4. Pour the fresh orange juice over the olives and lightly shake pan to lightly coat the olives with the juice.
  5. Add 3-4 rosemary sprigs on top of the olives.
  6. Roast the olives for about 15 minutes. Remove from oven just as the skins of the olives begin to crinkle.
  7. Transfer the olives (careful: hot!) to your serving dish. Top olives with orange zest and minced parsley. Serve olives warm.

Notes

**Subsitiute olives stuffed with blue cheese for olives stuffed with garlic to make the recipe vegan

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Sheila

Saturday 25th of November 2017

This is very timely since I just read the health benefits of olives I am so excited to try this. Thank you for sharing.

Helen Corbin

Monday 9th of October 2017

No question that this is something I will do. After all, you are the one that turned me onto roasted tomatoes which I love love love!!!!!!!!!!

Sharon Walsh

Monday 9th of October 2017

I had a friend make these a couple years ago & I also fell in love w/them. A great appetizer, esp on an antipasto platter.

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