Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, curing olives. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Once you've decided between a water- or brine-cure, you are now ready to treat the olives. If using a water-cure process, place the prepared olives in a pan and cover with cold water; let sit for about a week, changing the water twice a day. Once the bitterness is gone, you are ready to place the olives in a brine.
Curing Olives is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Curing Olives is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook curing olives using 6 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Curing Olives:
- Make ready freshly picked Olives
- Take Water
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare 1 orange, sliced
- Get fresh oregano
- Prepare cloves garlic
Brined olives on the left, salt cured olives on the right, much needed washing day in the background. This method is great for smaller olives (like these kalamatas we scored from a tree on our last road trip). First up, prepare the olives as above for brining - wash them and slit them. We are trying to cure olives and are using a family recipe to water cure them.
Steps to make Curing Olives:
- Pick your fresh Olives and then wash all the olives to remove all the dirt from them.
- Once washed check for a bruising or holes from insects.
- Squash the olives to break the skin or slit each olive 2-3 times to let the water get into the olive.
- Place the olives in large plastic lidded container (food graded). Cover them with water. You may need to weigh them down so they do not float to the surface.
- Add a good handful of salt depending on how many olives you intend on curing.
- Cover loosely with the lid and place in a cool dark place.
- Change the water once a day.
- Continue the process for about 7 days, if you think the olives need more time to lose their bitterness allow them a few more days.
- Once you are happy with the bitterness level of the olives its time to make the brine.
- There are various methods and ingredients that can be used. I'm using my grandmothers recipe to sweeten the olives. Time to make the brine….. Rinse the olives with fresh water and transfer the olives into a dry container.
- Add the oregano, leave the stalks on so that you can remove them easily. Crush the garlic and add into the container. Add a good amount of salt and add the sliced orange.
- Pour the liquid into the container, cover with the lid and place in the fridge. Although you can leave all the ingredients in the salted water, I personally would remove the fresh oregano and oranges from the container.
- Taste the olives every other day, you may need to add some more salt.
- And finally place the container in fridge, it can be stored up to a year.
The recipe calls for fresh water soaking, olives fully submerged. water changed every day for as long as it takes for the olives to lose their bitterness. Learn how to cure olives the Greek way, including materials, photographs, instructions, processing, cooking and food ideas. Buying olives in the store can be. Curing green olives is one of our preparations for winter, just like preserving grape leaves. I learnt how to cure green olives from mom.
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