Cheese, black olives and walnut balls

Huile d'olive de Provence – olives maturées PDO Olives noires de Nyons PDO
Mature flavour
Balls fromage frais-olives noires-noix
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A recipe idea for a simple, tasty and sure-to-be-a-hit aperitif!
A PDO
Preparation
10 min
A PDO
Resting time
35 min
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Ingredients

A PDO
For 4 personnes
  • 200 g fresh cheese (such as Kiri)
  • 60 g black olives from Nyons PDO
  • 1 c. à soupe Provençal olive oil – ripened olives PDO
  • 100 g walnuts PDO

Astuce

We recommend using a traditional-style olive oil from Provence – PDO ripened olives – for its mild flavour and notes of black olives, candied fruit, forest floor and/or toasted bread.You can also use olive oil from the Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – made from PDO olives – or from Aix-en-Provence – made from PDO olives.

Instructions

  • Blend the nuts.

  • Stone the black Nyons olives (PDO) and chop them into small pieces.

  • Take the fresh cheese out of the fridge at the last minute. Mix together the black olives, the Provençal olive oil – PDO matured olives – and the cheese. Return to the fridge for 5 minutes, then shape into balls and roll them in the walnuts. Leave in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving on wooden skewers.

Astuce

We recommend using a traditional-style olive oil from Provence – PDO ripened olives – for its mild flavour and notes of black olives, candied fruit, forest floor and/or toasted bread.You can also use olive oil from the Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – made from PDO olives – or from Aix-en-Provence – made from PDO olives.
We recommend...

For this recipe, we recommend a PDO huile d'olive de Provence - olives maturées (traditional taste) – for its aromas of black olives, candied fruit, woodland and/or toast.

If you don’t have any, then opt for the PDO huile d'olive d'Aix-en-Provence –  olives maturées, the PDO huile d'olive de la Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – olives maturées, or the PDO huile d'olive de Corse – Oliu di Corsica – récolte à l'ancienne.

We recommend PDO olives noires de Nyons for their aromas of red berries, woodland, chocolate and even vanilla. You could also opt for olives noires de la Vallée des Baux-de-Provence PDO or olives de Nice PDO.

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