Free Recipe Black-Olive Pesto

Recipe Type: Free Sauce Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
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Recipe Serves: 8

Ingredients for Black-Olive Pesto Recipe

1 cn Large; pitted black olives
-(9 ounces)
1 Hot red chile; (2 inches,
-fresh)
2 sm Garlic cloves
2 sm Shallots
2 tb Minced parsley leaves
3/4 ts Minced thyme
3/4 ts Red-wine vinegar
1/2 c Extra-virgin olive oil
1 Lemon
1 sm Bunch fresh chives
Salt

Black-Olive Pesto Preparation

PREPARATION: Rinse, drain, and pat the olives dry. Put them into the workbowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade and process until chopped. Stem, seed, and mince the chile. Peel and mince the garlic and shallots and add them to the processor along with the chile, parsley, thyme, vinegar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Pulse in the oil and adjust seasoning to taste. (Can cover and refrigerate sauce overnight.) SERVING: If refrigerated, bring sauce to room tem- perature. Remove and cut lemon zest into fine julienne strips (or use a lemon zester). Snip chives into 1-inch lengths. Serve 3 to 4 tablespoons of sauce on each portion. Garnish with lemon and chives. Formatted for Kitmail 5/98 Posted by JoAnn Pellegrino NOTES : A flavorful, inky pesto, made of minced olives and seasoned with garlic and shallots, is brightened with snippets of lemon zest and chives. Recipe by: The Best of Cook’s Magazine Posted to KitMailbox Digest by J Pellegrino <gigimfg@ix.netcom.com> on May 23, 1998

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