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Summertime Grilling Made Easy
Welcome to summer! This season, show off your grilling skills by adding olives to your menu and turn the same-old same-old into seared perfection!
Featured Recipes from the Grill
Grilled Pepper, Onion, and Olive Relish
Consider this versatile, Mediterranean-inspired olive relish to be the perfect addition to your summer grilled meals. This relish is a terrific addition to grilled chicken, pork tenderloin, or bone-in pork chops…
Tuscan Olive Oil–Basted Halibut with Grilled Peppers and Olives
One taste of this dish and you know you’ve grilled a winner. Use a fruity extra-virgin olive oil from Tuscany, especially one with a peppery finish on the palate…
Middle Eastern Chickpea Salad
This bright-tasting chickpea salad is a twist on a traditional Lebanese vegetable salad. It has big flavors and takes little effort to prepare, which is what you’re looking for on a weeknight…
Tuscan-Style Porterhouse Steak with Capers, Olives, and Red Bell Peppers
When what you want is a hunky steak to grill, go for a porterhouse, which is really two steaks in one. It has both a firm, meaty strip steak and a tenderloin attached to the bone…
That Special Ingredient
Simple grilled foods can take on big flavors when paired with olives in the form of a relish, tapenade, or topper. Use these ideas and create your own grilling sensations:
Combining chopped green and black ripe olives with grilled bell peppers and onions adds a spectacular Mediterranean flavor to grilled pork or beef.
Finely minced Kalamata olives blended with olive oil become a lovely accent to grilled tuna steaks.
A chunky, chopped tomato, caper, and olive sauce is the perfect topper to grilled artisan bread or as an extra flavor to garlic-rubbed and grilled chicken breasts.
Slide pitted olives onto the top and bottom of grilled skewered foods as a lovely taste accent and garnish.
Add olives as a garnish to skewered fish or seafood kabobs, lamb, beef, or chicken kabobs – even grilled and skewered cherry tomatoes.
Pantry staples such as canned chickpeas, quick-cooking couscous, instant polenta, and orzo can be turned into fabulous side dishes for grilled foods.
Add sliced or chopped olives along with fresh herbs, olive oil, green onions, sun-dried tomatoes, or diced sweet peppers for big flavor and color.