Garlic Marinated Olives with Walnuts / Persian Zeytoon Parvardehn
Are you really Greek if you don’t like olives?
I haven’t really ver heard a Greek not liking olives. Personally, I love them too and can be snacking on olives all day long just because they are so delicious. he other day, I stumble upon a Persian olive recipe though - Zeytoon Parvardeh - which I thought sounded fantastic, which looked fantastic and which in the end actually was fantastic. This is very simple to make and takes your olives to a whole new level. Yum!
THIS RECIPE IS:
Vegan
Gluten Free
Luxurious
Great for snacking
Great small side dish to for instance drinks etc
Nice diversity from other, more plain, olives
Garlic Marinated Olives with Walnuts
INGREDIENTS:
150 g green olives
2 big pressed garlic cloves
1 dl walnuts
1/2 dl pomegranate seeds
1/2 dl finely chopped fresh mint
1 tbsp pomegranate molasses (syrup)
2 tbsp olive oil
Sea salt after taste
HOW TO MAKE:
Finely chop your walnuts. Try to have it in small pieces and not chop it to flour.
Place, olives, walnuts, pomegranate seeds and mint in a bowl. Stir.
Mix together pressed garlic, pomegranate molasses, olive oil and salt in another bowl. Ripple this dressing over the olives and mix all together.
Put in the fridge for at least 1 hour to let it marinate and then... snack these olives, have them in your veg bowl, over salads or you name it!