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!