🫒💚 Homemade Lebanese pickled green olives - Zeytoun Akhdar

Name: 🫒💚 Homemade Lebanese pickled green olives - Zeytoun Akhdar
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 kg fresh green olives; 2 tablespoons coarse salt; 2 chili peppers (green or red); Cold Water; Extra virgin olive oil; 1 lemon, sliced

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

Olive season is one of the happiest seasons that everyone looks forward to in Lebanon. It’s when family gatherings, lunches, kids happy times, and all the beautiful memories happen under the shade of olive trees 🫒

Usually, if we don’t pickle our own olives, we buy them directly from someone who does, but we never buy the supermarket ones! (At least I don’t know anyone who does!)

Last month was olive season in Lebanon. My sister and brother in law decided for the first time to prepare it at home instead of counting on my mum or my sister’s in laws to make it for them! Here’s the result 😊

Usually, if we don’t pickle our own olives, we buy them directly from someone who does, but we never buy the supermarket ones! (At least I don’t know anyone who does!)

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

Usually, if we don’t pickle our own olives, we buy them directly from someone who does, but we never buy the supermarket ones! (At least I don’t know anyone who does!)

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Ingredients

1 kgfresh green olives
2 tablespoonscoarse salt
2chili peppers (green or red)
Cold Water
Extra virgin olive oil
1lemon, sliced

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Steps

1

It’s olive season 😍
2

Place the olive in a big colander. Discard bad or rotten grains. Rinse under cold running water.
3

Using a stone, or heavy tool, gently crack the grain open. Just one gentle crack. Place again in the colander and rinse for a second time. The soak in water for 4 hours to get rid of the extra bitterness
4

Drain, add two tablespoons of coarse salt, and rub the grains well with the salt.
5

Place some lemon slices at the bottom of a jar, add some olives, then chilli pepper, lemon again, and olives
6

Fill the jar with water, and about the last 5cm of the har pour extra virgin olive oil, almost 1 cup. Set aside and it’ll be ready for consumption in 5 days or a week! They’ll last for over a year if properly sealed and stored. 💚
7

Every time I go to Lebanon, I bring some of this great goodness with me. Nothing’s like the REAL homemade deliciousness.