Name: Our World-Famous Olive Medley
Yield: Makes about 1 qt [960 ml]
Ingredients: 1 cup [160 g] French Provençal olives, black or green; 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 1 cup [160 g] Kalamata olives; 1 cup [160 g] Castelvetrano olives; 3 strips of lemon peel, removed with a vegetable peeler; ½ cup [120 ml] extra-virgin olive oil; 1 shallot, thinly sliced; 1 tsp Aleppo pepper; ½ cup [110 g] chopped roasted red peppers; ¼ cup [10 g] chopped parsley; 1 tsp za’atar; ¼ cup [40 g] capers, drained

Preparation info

Makes about
1 qt

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Flavors of the Sun

By Christine Sahadi Whelan

Published 2021

About

My favorite way to eat olives is directly from the barrel, but when I want to get a bit fancier, I bring home a pint of our house-made marinated olives. Most retailers sell mixed olives that arrived premixed and seasoned, but we like to mix and match our own, using olives from different continents. We then season them in small batches. Our customers seem to approve, as this cocktail blend is one of the most popular items in the store. I think it looks and tastes best when the olives are lef