This is a Spanish style of preserving and selling olives, rather than an actual “botanical” variety of olive. It’s a jar of green olives and capers mixed together. Sometimes the olives may be stuffed with pimiento as well. The olives aren’t necessarily always pitted, though of course they will be if they have been stuffed….
Stuffed Olives
Alcaparrado Olives
This is a Spanish style of preserving and selling olives, rather than an actual “botanical” variety of olive. It’s a jar of green olives and capers mixed together. Sometimes the olives may be stuffed with pimiento as well. The olives aren’t necessarily always pitted, though of course they will be if they have been stuffed….
Stuffed Olives
Stuffed Olives © Denzil Green Olives used to be stuffed by hand, but now it is almost always done by machine. Machines first pit the olives, then stuff the cavity they made with a filling. The stuffing can be almonds, anchovy, celery, onion or strips of pimiento paste. New stuffings being thought of all the…