Tapenade

Name: Tapenade
Ingredients: ½ tsp dried chilli flakes; 2 garlic cloves, grated; 4 anchovy fillets; 100 ml extra virgin olive oil, plus extra if desired; 1 tbsp capers, drained if in liquid and rinsed if in salt; Zest of 1 lemon and maybe some juice; 200 g pitted black olives; 4 thyme sprigs, leaves picked, stalks discarded; A small bunch of parsley, leaves picked and stalks finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Max’s Sandwich Book

By Max Halley and Ben Benton

Published 2018

About

There are times in a sandwich-maker’s life when they want something between their bread that is salty and bitter and a little sharp; SOMETHING TO COUNTER THE RICH, fatty goodness that they have piled up ready to devour. At times like this, tapenade is just the thing.

Ingredients

4 anchovy fillets
2 garlic cloves, grated
1 tbsp capers, drained if in liquid and

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Dust off your food processor.

Into the bowl of said machine, add the anchovy fillets, garlic, capers, lemon zest, dried chilli flakes and parsley stalks. Blitz until they are a sticky mess and then add the parsley leaves and thyme.

Drain the pitted olives and add to the mixer along with half the olive oil. Blitz again in short pulses so as to retain some texture to the sauce. Ta