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What a great and very colorful way to brighten up your day. Because let’s be honest nobody can stay gloomy for long when you look at this olive tapenade. So are you ready to learn how to make this olive tapenade recipe? Let’s get started!
What You Need For This Recipe
To make this olive tapenade you need several ingredients on your grocery shopping list. Get the following ingredients:
- Olives – we use green olives
- Garlic – fresh garlic
- Arugula – main ingredient
- Olive olive oil
- Tomatoes – you need sun-dried tomatoes
Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Green Olive Tapenade
- To make this tapenade recipe you need a food processor, kitchen machine, or blender. You can try to make it by hand and cut the ingredients with a knife but with a food processor, it is so much easy.
- To make it easy add all of the ingredients for the green olive tapenade including the sun-dried tomatoes in a food processor. Depending on how rustic you want your tapenade you can pulse it a couple of times.
- Want a smoother tapenade let the food processor run a little while longer. When the tapenade is done take it out of the kitchen machine and store it in a bowl or glass jar.
- All of the hard work is done by the food processor.
Easy Tapenade Recipe
I usually buy my tapenade in the store but every time I make tapenade myself, I’m wondering why. Tapenade is very easy to make, done in seconds especially when you make this tapenade recipe.
The ingredients are in most kitchen cabinets or refrigerators and you can adjust them to your taste. You can eat it with a lot of things as you can see down below.
See How To Make Green Olive Tapenade
Want to see how you can make this rustic green olive tapenade recipe? Just watch the recipe video on the recipe card and follow along with the step-by-step instructions.
How To Store Tapenade
Tapenade is best eaten freshly made but you can store it in a glass jar with a lid or airtight container and put it in the refrigerator. You can keep it for up to 3-5 days.
As this recipe contains arugula, I would advise not to freeze it but eat it within a couple of days.
What To Serve With Tapenade
This tapenade recipe goes with just about anything just like this sun-dried tomato spread. As long as you can spread it onto something, you are good to go.
You can put it on e.g.:
Use Your Homemade Tapenade
Besides spreading the tapenade on bread or crackers you can also incorporate it into many different recipes.
Take a look at these recipes:
So, I’m not exaggerating that you can use it with almost anything.
More Recipe Options For Rustic Tapenade
- Freshness – want to add some freshness to the tapenade use a splash of lemon in the green tapenade
- Herbs – try some Basil in the green tapenade
Have fun with this rustic green tapenade recipe!
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Rustic Green Olive Tapenade
Looking for a tapenade recipe? Look no further here is a great and easy green olive tapenade. A handful of ingredients and done in 5 minutes.
Ingredients
- 10 green olives
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 cup arugula
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil from sun-dried tomatoes
- 2 sun-dried tomatoes
Instructions
- Take the ingredients for the green tapenade and put them in a food processor
- Pulse the food processor. If you want a really rustic tapenade pulse a couple of times, if you want a very smooth tapenade let the food processor run for a couple of minutes
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 91; Fats; 8.6g; Carbs: 3.7g; Protein: 0.9g;
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