Snack

Marinated olives with goat cheese

Name: Marinated olives with goat cheese
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 7 oz Goat cheese; 5½ oz Green olives; 4 tbsp Olive oil; Lemon zest, from half a lemon; Thyme, a few sprigs; Red pepper flakes, a pinch

Better after a day in the fridge than it is fresh, which makes it the rare snack worth making before you want it.

3gnet carbs

24gfat

8gprotein

260kcal

Per serving10 minServes 4

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Ingredients

For the whole dish · serves 4

Goat cheese7 oz
Green olives5½ oz
Olive oil4 tbsp
Lemon zestfrom half a lemon
Thymea few sprigs
Red pepper flakesa pinch

Method

6 steps · 10 minutes

Warm the olive oil gently with the thyme sprigs and red pepper flakes for 2 minutes. Do not let it sizzle — you are infusing it, not frying anything.
Take it off the heat and stir in the lemon zest, which goes in off the heat or it turns bitter.
Drain the olives well and tip them into the warm oil.
Leave to cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for at least an hour and ideally overnight.
Crumble the goat cheese into rough pieces over a plate and spoon the olives and their oil around it.
Bring it back to room temperature before eating — fridge-cold, the oil sets cloudy and the cheese tastes of nothing.

Macros are per serving and are estimates worked out from the ingredients. Keto Tracker AI is a food logging tool and does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor before changing your diet.