Indulge in a delightful culinary adventure with our baked green olives enveloped in a tantalizing spicy cheese pastry. This extraordinary appetizer or snack combines the savory flavors of green olives, a medley of aromatic spices, and a luscious cheese filling, all encased in a flaky, golden pastry. Prepare to tantalize your taste buds with this irresistible treat that will leave you craving more.
Discover an array of delectable recipes that showcase the versatility of this dish. Experiment with variations featuring different types of olives, cheeses, and herbs to create unique flavor combinations. Elevate your culinary skills by learning how to make the perfect pastry dough, ensuring a crispy and flaky texture that complements the savory filling. Explore creative presentation ideas to turn this dish into an eye-catching centerpiece at your next gathering.
Whether you're a seasoned chef or a novice in the kitchen, our comprehensive guide provides all the essential information you need to recreate this culinary masterpiece. Detailed step-by-step instructions, accompanied by helpful tips and tricks, guarantee success in your culinary endeavor. Prepare to impress your friends and family with this exceptional dish that is sure to become a favorite in your recipe repertoire.
PASTRY WRAPPED OLIVES
What a different, fun appetizer! We enjoyed these served at room temp, so be sure to allow to let them cool entirely.
Provided by Charleen Borchers
Categories Other Snacks
Time 1h40m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- 1. Have all ingredients room temperature. In the softened butter add the tobasco, and worstchester sauce, then the shredded cheese.Drain the olives in a strainer and set aside in a bowl.
- 2. Add salt & flour to cheese mixture. Make into a dough working all ingredients thoroughly.You can add cilantro at this time if desired.
- 3. Take aprox a tsp of the dough and make a ball. Flatten it in the palm of your hand and place an olive in the middle. Wrap the olive in the dough and make a ball again. Place on a greased cookie sheet. You can get 20 or so on a large cookie sheet. Place in 375* oven for aprox 30 min. or until tops start to get golden. You must keep an eye on them because you are using butter and this can burn easily . Remove from cookie sheet on a plate to cool and place in a tupperware container.
- 4. You can make these ahead of time and place in a bag in a freezer to bake at another time. Make sure to flower them before you put in the bag or they will stick together and be a mess when you thaw them. They keep 3 months in the freezer. This is a great thing to have on hand when people drop by. You can always have a nice appetizer handy at all times!
CHEESE-WRAPPED OLIVES (BOLLITAS)
These savory little appetizers are geared to please the olive-lover in the crowd. Can be frozen before baking. If doing so, place directly into oven from freezer and extend the baking time by just a few minutes. Recipe from a clipping, author unsourced.
Provided by skat5762
Categories Cheese
Time 1h
Yield 24 bollitas, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In bowl of food processor, combine cheese, butter, paprika/cayenne, and flour.
- Process until smooth.
- Take about 1 Tablespoon of crumbly dough and place in the palm of your hand.
- Place one of the olives in middle of dough.
- Cup your hand to begin fixing dough around olive.
- Roll between palms of hands until dough is smoothly wrapped around olive.
- Sometimes the dough gets a little crumbly, rolling faster helps a bit, and you can stick dough onto any'naked' areas and roll until smooth.
- Repeat until all olives have been wrapped.
- Place onto oiled baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
- Due to the amount of cheese in the batter, these will be rather greasy when they emerge from the oven.
- Remove from baking sheet and place between paper towels to remove grease.
- Serve with dipping sauce of choice (I used a mango salsa).
- Note: Upon making these recently, I discovered that the preferred method should be to freeze these on a baking tray for about 3-4 hours before baking. This allows the texture of the 'dough' to remain firm around the balls when baking. Of course if you don't have the time, they are still just as tasty the first way... the balls just don't hold up quite as well in the oven.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 131, Fat 8.3, SaturatedFat 5.2, Cholesterol 24.9, Sodium 117.5, Carbohydrate 8.2, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 0.1, Protein 5.8
HOT CHEESE OLIVES
This is classic 1950s cocktail fare that, unlike the savory gelées and boiled ham canapés that are best forgotten, we still want to eat today. Just wrap cocktail olives in a simple Cheddar dough and bake until golden. Martini optional.
Provided by Julia Reed
Categories finger foods, appetizer
Time 1h15m
Yield 50 hors d'oeuvres
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Beat the butter until creamy in a large mixing bowl, add the cheese and mix well. Stir in the flour, salt, cayenne and the Worcestershire and mix until smooth. Beat the egg with 2 tablespoons cold water. Add to the dough and mix just until incorporated. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Remove the dough and flatten out a piece about the size of a walnut into a thin round. Place an olive on top and shape it around the olive, pinching to repair any breaks. Place it on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough and olives. Bake until the dough sets, about 15 minutes. Serve hot.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 54, UnsaturatedFat 1 gram, Carbohydrate 3 grams, Fat 4 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 2 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 55 milligrams, Sugar 0 grams, TransFat 0 grams
BAKED CHEDDAR OLIVES
Steps:
- In a bowl combine the Cheddar and the butter, add the flour and the cayenne, and blend the dough until it is combined well. Drop the dough by tablespoons onto wax paper and wrap or mold each tablespoon around each of the olives, covering each olive completely. Bake the wrapped olives on a baking sheet in the middle of a preheated 400°F. oven for 15 minutes, or until the pastry is golden, and serve them warm.
BAKED GREEN OLIVES IN SPICY CHEESE PASTRY
GREAT appetizer. Sounds strange, but have never had any left-overs and many rave reviews at parties. When I'm on my last legs, THIS (and either Muffaletta or Monte Cristo sandwich) are what I want my last meal to consist of.
Provided by Pellerin
Categories Southwestern U.S.
Time 30m
Yield 20 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Mix the cheese and flour, and then mix in the margarine and cayenne, working the dough with your hands if it seems dry. Form a log in plastic wrap and chill in fridge over night. You want this to be fairly dry and crumbly. Mold approximately 1 tablespoon dough around each olive. The warmth from you hands will help keep it together. Bake at 400° for about 20 minutes or until golden. Serve hot, warm, or cold. (I prefer them hot ;-).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 122.3, Fat 9, SaturatedFat 3.7, Cholesterol 13.9, Sodium 135.3, Carbohydrate 6.2, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 0.1, Protein 4.2
BAKED CHEESE OLIVES
Rich cheese dough surrounds a savory olive. A great pick-up appetizer or snack. You can freeze the unbaked, dough-wrapped-olives and then bake them right out of the freezer, extending the baking time by a few minutes.
Provided by ANITAL
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Vegetable Olives
Time 30m
Yield 9
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- In a small mixing bowl, combine cheese and butter or margarine. Stir flour and cayenne pepper into the cheese and butter mixture. Blend well. Wrap a tablespoon of dough around each green olive. Arrange the wrapped olives on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 109.6 calories, Carbohydrate 5.7 g, Cholesterol 20 mg, Fat 8 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 4 g, SaturatedFat 4.4 g, Sodium 316.7 mg, Sugar 0.1 g
MAKE-AHEAD SPICY OLIVE PASTA
This is a fancy version of my grandchildren's favorite baked spaghetti. It feels like such a special dinner, and it's so cozy for winter. -Louise Miller, Westminster, Maryland
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 1h25m
Yield 10 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Cook spaghetti according to package directions for al dente. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef, onion and garlic over medium heat until beef is no longer pink and onion is tender, 6-8 minutes, breaking up beef into crumbles; drain. Stir in pasta sauce, olives, capers, anchovies, pepper flakes and seasoned salt; set aside., In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, Parmesan cheese and butter. Drain spaghetti; add to egg mixture and toss to coat., Place half of the spaghetti mixture in a greased 13x9-in. or 3-qt. baking dish. Top with half of the cottage cheese, meat sauce and mozzarella cheese. Repeat layers. Place baking dish on a rimmed baking sheet., Cover and bake for 40 minutes. Uncover; bake until heated through, 20-25 minutes longer. Let stand 15 minutes before serving. If desired, sprinkle with basil, olives and capers.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 563 calories, Fat 27g fat (13g saturated fat), Cholesterol 116mg cholesterol, Sodium 1104mg sodium, Carbohydrate 48g carbohydrate (10g sugars, Fiber 4g fiber), Protein 33g protein.
BAKED RIGATONI WITH RED PEPPERS AND GREEN OLIVES
This baked pasta is based on the best pizza topping combo: peppers and olives. Build a tomato sauce with jarred roasted red peppers and green olives, then toss with pasta and lots of mozzarella.
Provided by Kendra Vaculin
Time 1h15m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Heat oil in a medium Dutch oven or other heavy pot over medium-high. Cook onion and garlic, stirring occasionally, until onion is slightly softened, about 4 minutes. Add roasted red peppers and salt; season with black pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is jammy, 8-10 minutes. Add olives, tomato paste, and red pepper flakes and cook, stirring often, until tomato paste is slightly darkened in color, about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, crushing with your hands as you go, and their liquid and cook, stirring often, until slightly thickened, about 4 minutes.
- While sauce is cooking, place a rack in middle of oven; preheat to 350°. Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until very al dente (about 2 minute less than package directions; pasta will continue to cook in the oven). Drain pasta, reserving ⅓ cup pasta cooking liquid.
- Add pasta and reserved pasta cooking liquid to sauce. Reduce heat to medium and stir in butter, oregano, and half of Parmesan. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce is thickened and glossy and coats pasta, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in half of mozzarella.
- Transfer pasta to a 13x9" baking dish and spread into an even layer. Scatter remaining Parmesan and mozzarella over. Bake until bubbling around the edges, 15-20 minutes.
- Heat broiler. Broil pasta until top is brown and crisp in spots, about 3 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes, then top with basil for serving.
Tips:
- Use high-quality olives. The fresher the olives, the better the flavor of the dish will be.
- Pit the olives before baking. This will make them easier to eat and will also help the cheese mixture to penetrate the olives more evenly.
- Use a sharp knife to score the olives. This will help the cheese mixture to adhere to the olives better.
- Don't overfill the pastry shells. The cheese mixture will expand as it bakes, so leave a little room at the top of the shells.
- Bake the olives until the pastry is golden brown and the cheese is melted and bubbly. This will take about 20 minutes.
Conclusion:
These delicious Baked Green Olives in Spicy Cheese Pastry are a true treat and a perfect appetizer for any occasion. They have a delightful contrast of flavors and textures that will please everyone. The olives are salty and tangy, the cheese is creamy and spicy, and the pastry is flaky and buttery. Serve these olives warm or at room temperature, and enjoy them as a snack, appetizer, or side dish.
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