Black Olive Raisin Paste Dip Recipes

BLACK OLIVE & RAISIN PASTE / DIP

Steps:

• Place garlic, olives& raisins into the bowl of a food processor- process until chopped Add orgegano, lemon juice& olive oil and process again to form a corase paste.
• Seaon with salt& pepper to taste (Just remember that olives are already salty).

BLACK OLIVE PASTE

Steps:

• To pit the olives, you can use a cherry/olive pitter, but I've found that the olives frequently slip through the holes instead of just the pits.
• Another way to pit olives is to put them inside a folded kitchen towel and then bang on them with a mallet, cutting board, small frying pan, or whatever suits your fancy.
• Sure the olives get bruised, but what do you think is going to happen in the food processor?.
• Mixing raw garlic and olive oil provides an ideal breeding ground for the anaerobic bacteria which cause botulism.
• If I'm going to keep the paste around for a number of days, which I usually do, I'll mince the garlic, add it to the oil and then heat both in the microwave.
• I try not to cook the garlic too much in this manner- you just need to heat the oil and garlic up to 140 or 150 degrees for a while.
• Mix all of the ingredients in food processor.

BLACK OLIVE DIP

Steps:

• Reserve black olive juice. Chop black olives.
• In a medium sized bowl whip the cream cheese with a hand blender or a fork.
• Add black olives and about 2 tablespoons of the black olive juice and mix. Add more juice until you reach your desired consistency (I like it creamy but not thinned out). You can also add things like worchestershire, paprika, garlic salt, etc if you'd like to add depth of flavor but I like it just how it is!
• Serve with chips, veggies, crackers, or whatever else you may like!