Where does Tomates cerise rempli du tapenade come from?
This delicious dish comes from the south of France and has a basement of vegetables and legumes, it belongs also to the traditional recipe book. You can find it all over the year and is served as an appetiser.
The tapenade is a popular appetiser in France, due to its exquisite flavour and healthy composition. I strongly recommend you to try it with beef carpaccio, with mozzarella and tomatoe, avocado, eggplant, goat cheese or even with pasta. But, with such a versatile dish you can make your own combinations, try and give us your opinion.
What is the origin of Tomates cerise rempli du tapenade?
The Tapenade was invented more than 100 years ago by a chef that worked in the Maison Dorée en Marsella. This chef was called Meyner and is considered that he invented the Tapenade in 1880, although it is known that the olive puree already existed a for a long time in this area of France.
The traditional recipe is prepared with black olives, anchovies, garlic, thyme, capers and olive oil, although there is also a variant with green olives.
Ingredients:
- 4 cherry tomatoes.
- 4 piquillo peppers.
- 200 g of black olives.
- 1 lemon.
- Capers
- Anchovies
- Black pepper
- Thyme
- Rosemary
Time of preparation: 15 min.
How to cook Tomates cerise rempli du tapenade:
First step: Ingredients preparation.
Remove the bones from the black olives and smash them with the piquillo peppers, the capers and the anchovies.
Put the paste prepared before into a mortar and ad the spices and some lemon juice. Start stirring all the ingredients in the mortar and add little by little some olive oil too.
Now is time to prepare the cherry tomatoes, cut the top part and empty them using a small spoon.
Add the pulp of the cherry tomatoes to the mixture in the mortar and stir everything very well.
Finally, fill the cherry tomatoes with the ingredients we prepared before, and…. Voilà.
Top Tip: you can also add garlic to the mortar, but it depends on your style.
Top tip: you can also use this on small pieces of bread instead of with cherry tomatoes.
