Marinated Olives - Aceitunas Aliñadas

Total Time: 336 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 336 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup green spanish olives in brine, pimiento stuffed, rinsed
• 1 cup black spanish olives in brine, rinsed
• 2 ounces broiled and peeled sweet peppers, sliced thinly
• 2 -3 thin lemon slices
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 -2 bay leaf
• 1 dried red chili
• 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed
• 1/2 teaspoon coriander seed, cracked slightly
• extra virgin olive oil

Recipe

• 1 place olives, sweet pepper strips, lemon slices, bay leaf, chile, fennel and coriander seeds in a two cup preserving jar, making sure the ingredients are well mixed. pour over enough oil to cover.
• 2 seal the jar and set aside at room temperature for at least two weeks before using.
• 3 cooks note:.
• 4 do not add sliced garlic to an oil marinade such as this because of the possibility of botulism.
• 5 if you store the marinade in the refrigerator, the oil will become claudy but it clears again as soon as it is returned to room temperature.
• 6 cooking time is marinating time.