Fried Stuffed Green Olives

Two of the things hubby and I never run out of at home are black and green olives. Not the bottled kind. We don’t like the soft, almost melting texture of bottled olives and we find them either too salty or too bland. We buy our olives almost week at the Saturday open market in our city.

We like to eat them plain or I make a homemade aioli sauce for them but when hubby had fried stuffed green olives in Rome last November, that changed things a bit ;)

Ingredients:

10-12 pitted green olives
100 grams ground pork
1 tsp soy sauce
1 egg
1 small shallot
1 small carrot
1-2 tbsp find bread crumbs
salt and pepper
oil for frying

Procedure:

1. Finely mince the carrot and shallot.
2. Mix the ground pork, soy sauce, egg, shallot and carrot together. Season the mixture with salt and pepper and set aside for about 10 minutes. (Note: If the olives are salty already, skip the salt for the ground pork mixture.)
3. Slit each green olive on one side.
4. Take an olive and fill the cavity with some ground pork mixture.
5. Take more of the mixture to form a thin coating of it around the olive.
6. Dust each stuffed olive with the breadcrumbs.
7. Heat up some oil and fry the stuffed olives. (Note: Don’t make the pan too hot. Otherwise, the outer edges will burn while the pork stuffing is still raw inside the olive.)

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