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Tapenade Recipe
Flavors of Provence/Côte-d'Azur
Total time: 15 to 30 minutes
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: None
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
Tapenade is a typical hors d'oeuvre from the south of France. It's a purée of anchovies, olives and capers that is usually spread on bread, but it can also be used to brush on meat or fish, or used as a dressing with salad or vegetables.

It is stored in a glass jar, covered with olive oil.

Tapenade differs from region to region and from family to family. Some cooks add a spoonful of water to make it more spreadable. Others blend in a spoonful of strong mustard.

Don't add salt, because the anchovies are already salty.

Ingredients
Ingredients
- 200 g (7 oz.) pitted black Olives
- 6 anchovies (Anchovy), (100 g / 3 oz.), desalted
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) capers
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 250 ml (1 cup) olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 8 thin slices of country bread
- Pepper
Method
  1. Clean the anchovies, removing the bones and tail;
  2. peel the garlic cloves; crush 3 of them;
  3. in a mortar, mash the olives, anchovies, capers and 3 crushed cloves of garlic;
  4. season with pepper; gradually add the olive oil, blending the mixture to a smooth thin paste;
  5. mix in the lemon juice;
  6. toast the bread slices; rub the crumb with the remaining clove of garlic; spread with tapenade.
 
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