Ameilia's Italian Stuffed Olives

Name: Ameilia's Italian Stuffed Olives
Prep time: 3 h 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 20 min
Total time: 3 h 20 min
Yield: 100
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 2 thick cut bone-in pork chops; 100 servings bread crumbs; 1 stalk celery, minced; 1 whole skinless, bone-in chicken breast; 3 eggs, divided and beaten; 100 servings flour for dredging; 2 cloves garlic, pressed; 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 lemon, zested; 59 milliliters olive oil; 680 grams colossal green olives, with pits; 1 mediums onion, minced; 59 milliliters grated Parmesan cheese; 340 grams tomato paste; 305 grams tomato puree; 100 servings vegetable oil for deep frying; 237 milliliters water

You can never have too many Mediterranean recipes, so give Ameilia's Italian Stuffed Olives It works best as a side dish, and is done in roughly 3 hours and 20 minutes. A mixture of water, olive oil, tomato puree, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

Heat olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Cook and stir celery, onion, and garlic in hot oil until translucent, about 5 minutes.

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Olive Oil

Celery

Garlic

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Pot

Add pork and chicken and cook for 7 to 10 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Pork

Combine tomato puree and tomato paste with 1 cup water, and add to meat mixture. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours, or until pork and chicken are falling off the bone.

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Tomato Puree

Meat

Water

Bone

Pork

Remove meat from the pot to cool, and set sauce aside.

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Sauce

Meat

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Pot

Meanwhile, remove olive pits using a special olive pitting tool. Make a slit in one side of each olive large enough to insert stuffing.

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Stuffing

Olives

Once cooled, remove pork and chicken meat from the bones, and mince.

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Chicken Meat

Ground Meat

Pork

Mix together with 2 beaten eggs, Parmesan cheese, ground nutmeg, lemon zest, and 1/4 cup of reserved sauce. Use more or less sauce as needed so that meat mixture is moist, but not too wet.

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Parmesan

Nutmeg

Lemon Zest

Sauce

Egg

Meat

Fill each olive with enough stuffing so that a small amount is pushing out of the slit. Dip each stuffed olive in flour, then beaten egg, then bread crumbs. Stuffed olives may be frozen in an air-tight container at this point until ready to use.

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Olives

Breadcrumbs