Spiced Olives

This easy spiced olives recipe is a wonderful way to use olives. With only a few steps and a 3 week marinating time, you will have spiced olives that are perfect for adding to charcuterie board, pastas, or pizza.

To make these spiced olives, you simply combine olives, capers, lemon slices, coriander seeds, peppercorns, and crushed pepper flakes in a jar, before covering all of the ingredients with olive oil. Then, after three weeks in the fridge, you can serve them.

What are Spiced Olives?

These spiced olives are a mixture of black and green olives along with different seasonings that are marinated in olive oil for several weeks. The seasonings include capers, coriander, black peppercorns, crushed red pepper, and lemon slices, which results in olives that are slightly spicy and bright and lemon in flavour.

Pro Tips

• Use pitted olives as they are easier to eat than ones that have pits.
• As you layer the olives with the other ingredients in your jar, gently press down each layer to ensure the jar is properly filled.
• Feel free to add other ingredients to your spiced olives such as sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, dried oregano, or sprigs of rosemary.
• While technically, you could eat the olives immediately, the longer you marinate the olives, the better they will taste.

What to Serve with Spiced Olives?

These spiced olives make wonderful additions to meals such as pasta or pizza. They can also be stuffed into sandwiches or added to charcuterie boards.

Should I Use Pitted or Unpitted Olives?

While technically you could use either, pitted olives are ideal as they are easier to eat. However, unpitted olives may hold their shape better over a longer storage time.

Can I Add Other Ingredients to Spiced Olives?

Yes, the sky’s the limit when it comes to making spiced olives at home! You can add fresh rosemary, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, orange slices in place of lemon slices, roasted red peppers, and more.

What Size Jar Should I Use?

Since this spiced olive recipe doesn’t specify a quantity of ingredients, you can use whatever size jar to fit the amount you would like to make. For example, if you don’t think that your family will go through them very quickly, you could make a smaller ½-pint sized jar whereas a full pint jar will be great if you and your family are big fans of olives.

How to Store Spiced Olives

These spiced olives can be stored in the fridge until you are ready to eat them. Since the olives are salty and packed in oil, they should keep for several weeks.

How to Make Spiced Olives

Step 1

Step 1

Step 1: Layer the green and black olives with the lemon slices, capers, coriander seeds, black peppercorns, and crushed red pepper flakes in a jar.

Step 1: Layer the green and black olives with the lemon slices, capers, coriander seeds, black peppercorns, and crushed red pepper flakes in a jar.

Step 2

Step 2

Step 2: Cover the olive mixture with olive oil. Store in the fridge to marinate for 3 weeks.

Step 2: Cover the olive mixture with olive oil. Store in the fridge to marinate for 3 weeks.

Step 3

Step 3

Step 3: Serve and enjoy!

Step 3: Serve and enjoy!