Olive salad
October 15, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Recipes
Olive salad is wicked good stuff for slapping on a pizza, making a muffuletta sandwich, or eating by the spoonful! There are lots of variations on this muffuletta filling, and here is my favorite:
Olive Salad Spread
1 c green olives, pitted
1 c black olives, pitted
1/4 c sweet onion
2 T fresh basil
2 T lemon juice
1 T horseradish
2 cloves of garlic
1 T dijon mustard
Splash of Tabasco sauce
Splash of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 c olive oil
Salt and pepper
Cut up the onion and garlic a bit. Combine olives through Worcestershire sauce in a food processor and chop coarsely. Add the oil with the machine running and process until a bit pasty. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate an hour before using.
Muffuletta sandwich
The sandwich consists of a round loaf of crusty Italian bread, split and filled with layers of sliced provolone cheese, Genoa salami, Cappicola ham, and olive salad. It originated in New Orleans!
Image: Cyndi Lavin
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I’m coming to your house! This looks delicious!
I LOVE pizza, one of my favorite foods. Thanks for another recipe
mmm……That sounds tasty.
That looks delicious!
Sounds good!
Thanks for the recipe. Looks like something my hubby will love.
Yum! I love olives!
Yum. Sounds good.
pizza is definitely a favorite around here
The Muffuletta sandwich sounds delicious.
Sounds like dinner to me!
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Whoever decided to dedicate a month to pizza is my hero.
Sounds delicious!
No olive fans in our family but my sister could eat olives for every meal, so I will pass this recipe along. Thanks!
I don’t know if I’d like it or not.
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this sounds like a nice spread for sandwiches, or even on a cheese tray with crackers. Off to the market I go
I love olives that pizza sounds great.
It sounds really good. Too bad my husband won’t touch them
sounds like a winner….
That looks good!
Olive salad is wonderful and I love muffaletta’s. We have a jar of the olive salad from New Orleans waiting to be opened in our fridge.
YUMMY
That looks extremely yummy! I might have to try that!
Looks wonderful!
Love olives. This sounds yummy!
Lots of pizza recipes! I think our family could eat pizza every evening and not get tired of it. Thanks, Cindi
Ohhh yum.
This sounds fast and easy! I’m going to try it at my granddaughters’s pajama party!
I am so hungry, I need a snack
mmm i love new styles of pizza and i love olives! yumm!
Not fond of olives myself but the rest of my family will love the olive spread.
This sounds pretty yummy.
I can’t get enough of olives lately and pizza is always a craving of mine. I found a sale on kalamata olives and have cooked them into a calzone w/ refrigerated pizza crust recently – yummy. I will keep this recipe for future use!
Sounds wonderful!!
OMG, Muffuletta sandwiches (made with turkey, though) are my absolute FAVORITE sandwiches!! Yummo! I love having a recipe for Olive Salad Spread – thanks!
Yum!! I love love love olives–this looks delish! Making it this weekend for sure!
I love olives. This sounds tasty.
This sounds very good, although I am the only one in my family who would eat it. Thanks for entering me.
Other than the horseradish and Tabasco (I am SUCH a wuss when it comes to anything even remotely approaching spicy), that sounds delicious!
This sounds so delicious, and I love turkey muffalettas. I’ll definitely have to give it a try!
thanks for the recipe. My husband and I enjoyed muffelattas at the Central Grocery in New Orleans on our honeymoon. It will be nice to re-create the treat.
I’ve heard about the Muffa____ sandwich, now I know