Marinated Olives?

[cooper]

I frequently make a dish of marinated olives using drained black olives, chopped garlic, olive oil, flavored vinegar, salt, and a little sprinkle of Italian herbs.

But I'd like to make something like those wrinkled black marinated olives you can get at speciality stores. I don't know what they're called (other than marinated olives) but they're wrinkled, and the flesh is much firmer than regular black olives.

Anyone have a home-made recipe?

 

[Haggis]

Could it be a specific type of olive thats giving them the wrinkled appearance rather than the marinating itself?

Take a look there and see if any look familiar.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Olivpick.html

Oh and by the way, your recipe sounded delicious. One of my personal favourites is simply to marinate Kalamata olives in thyme, lemon juice and a bit of garlic.

 

[cooper]

Thanks for the link. They look just like the Morrocan dry-cured olive, although they say that type is too bitter for snacking.

The French "Nyons" olive is similar. It's salt-cured. It did occur to me that salting the olives might make the flesh firmer, but the ones I buy don't taste too salty.

I'll try searching for salt-cured olives and see what I find.