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Olive pesto

Name: Olive pesto
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian recipes
Ingredients: 1 garlic clove; Pinch of sea salt; 25g pine nuts; 250g pitted black olives; Handful fresh flatleaf parsley; 125ml extra-virgin olive oil; 25g Parmesan, finely grated

Published: 30 Apr 10
Updated: 20 Nov 24

This pesto recipe, made with black olives, is perfect for spreading onto crostini for tasty nibbles with drink. Just picture yourself on a summer’s evening, Aperol spritz in hand…

Easy
May 2010

Test kitchen approved

Serves 4
Ready in 10 min

This pesto recipe, made with black olives, is perfect for spreading onto crostini for tasty nibbles with drink. Just picture yourself on a summer’s evening, Aperol spritz in hand…

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Ingredients

1 garlic clove
Pinch of sea salt
25g pine nuts
250g pitted black olives
Handful fresh flatleaf parsley
125ml extra-virgin olive oil
25g Parmesan, finely grated

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Method

Put the garlic and sea salt into the bowl of a small food processor and pulse, then add the pine nuts and pulse again until roughly chopped (be careful not to over-process).
Add the black olives and flatleaf parsley and pulse carefully until well mixed but still very textured.
Turn into a bowl and stir through the extra-virgin olive oil and mix until you have a juicy paste, seasoning as you go.