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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

14 Olives Recipes From 9 Cuisines.

Cured fruit, never eaten raw, and the variety changes a dish completely: meaty Kalamata for Greek salad and slow-cooked chicken, small Nicoise for Provencal stews, green Manzanilla for Spanish tapas, cracked green olives for Moroccan tagines with preserved lemon. Brine-cured are firmer and saltier, oil-cured wrinkled and intense. Rinse very salty olives before cooking, and add them late to braises, since long simmering makes them bitter and muddy the sauce.

14recipes on this route

The recipes.

Rectangular baked Chilean empanadas on a tray, one broken open to show beef, onion, olive and egg

Chile9 hr 35 min

Empanadas de Pino

Chilean Baked Beef and Olive Turnovers

Split fried Tunisian fricassé roll packed with tuna, crushed potato, egg slices, black olives and red harissa

Tunisia2 hr 35 min

Fricassé

Tunisian Fried Roll with Tuna and Potato

Opened hallaca on its banana leaf showing orange corn dough around a meat guiso with olives and raisins

Venezuela17 hr

Hallacas

Venezuelan Christmas Corn Parcels in Banana Leaf

Bowl of Maltese kapunata with browned aubergine cubes, peppers, olives and capers in thick tomato

Malta1 hr 35 min

Kapunata

Maltese Aubergine, Caper and Olive Stew

A Dominican lunch plate of white rice, stewed red beans, braised beef in brown sauce and cabbage salad

Dominican Republic2 hr 15 min

La Bandera Dominicana

The Dominican Flag Lunch Plate

Sliced rolled loaf showing a spiral of ham, bacon, green olives and raisins under a shiny dark crust

Venezuela3 hr 45 min

Pan de Jamón

Venezuelan Christmas Ham, Olive and Raisin Loaf

Baked pastel de choclo in a clay dish, its caramelized corn crust cut open to show beef, olive and egg beneath

Chile1 hr 55 min

Pastel de Choclo

Chilean Corn-Topped Beef Casserole

Skillet of Cuban picadillo, ground beef in tomato sauce studded with green olives and raisins

Cuba50 min

Picadillo a la Habanera

Beef with Olives and Raisins

Dominican braised chicken thighs in a dark glossy sauce with pepper strips and green olives

Dominican Republic1 hr 35 min

Pollo Guisado

Dominican Braised Chicken in Burnt Sugar

Shredded beef ropa vieja in red pepper sauce with green olives, served over white rice

Cuba2 hr 55 min

Ropa Vieja

Cuban Shredded Beef in Pepper Sauce

Bowl of Russian solyanka soup with smoked meats, olives, a lemon slice, sour cream and dill

Russia1 hr 30 min

Solyanka

Sour Soup with Smoked Meats and Olives

Algerian tadjine zitoun in a wide pot — chicken pieces and small meatballs with green olives, mushrooms and carrots in a pale sauce

Algeria1 hr 30 min

Tadjine Zitoun

Algerian Chicken and Green Olive Stew

Every recipe on this route.

All 14 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

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