All of our unearthed olive mixes are on offer until the 1st December which makes for a most appetising Autumn! You can harvest them at Waitrose stores or online through Ocado.
This 2 for £4 offer includes:
Filed under: BLOG | Tags: Greece, Mediterranean, olives, Roman Empire, Turkey, Unearthed
Have you ever found that it’s always the smallest things in life that cause so much passion in people? In fact, many have argued that the reason behind the Roman Empire’s seemingly unstoppable spread throughout Europe was originally to control the bulk of olive production in the region due to the value of its oil. As for me – well – there are plenty of olives I have tasted during my sourcing trips that are tasty enough for a Roman emperor! For inspiration, take a look at the latest addition to our range – Plump green olives filled with fiery red hot chillies not for the faint hearted!!
The inspiration for this product came during my latest sourcing trip and no it wasn’t trekking through the olive groves of Greece or the dirt tracks of northern turkey it was a little more down to earth, while sat over a pint in a London pub with a 6 ft 4 man from Greece. Don’t get me wrong I’ve been to Greece, I’ve trekked through Turkey, but sometimes you find just the right product in the strangest location.
While olive trees have spread throughout the world, I focus my sourcing trips on the Mediterranean basin where I find the best and most flavourful samples. Selection is based on a number of key factors including cleanliness, maturity and variety. Olives picked a week apart can often produce surprisingly different flavours. An interesting fact for you is that olive trees may live to be 1500 years old, and the average life span is about 500 years so no need to worry about us running out of olives! And due to this I am sure that here at unearthed we will continue to bring new, exciting and delicious olives to the UK.
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: chilli, discount, food, olives, special offer, Waitrose
All unearthed olives are on Save 1/3 in Waitrose from 9th September to 20th September. If you haven’t tried one of our mixes before, now is the time to give it a go!
5 products are included in the promotion:
- unearthed HOT Chilli Olives
- unearthed Mixed Olives and Feta
- unearthed Manzanilla Olives, Manchego and Chilli
- unearthed Olives & Sun-Dried Tomato
- unearthed Tomato and Ricotta Skewers
HOT Chilli Olives - unleash the fire!
Also, if you’ve thought of our HOT Chilli Olives (stuffed with whole red chillis) as being a bit too much of a risk, this is a great price at which to give them a whirl.
We’ll carry on working really hard to help our stockists offer you great prices in these credit crunchy times, so look out for more offers on other lines in the near future!
Filed under: recipe | Tags: feta, food, olives, pesto, recipe, tart, vegetarian
If you are vegetarian this is perfect, and so delicious for an evening meal
Ingredients
- One pack of unearthed olives
- Short crust pastry
- Pesto
- unearthed feta cheese 6 eggs
- Milk
- Salt and Pepper
Method
- Fold out your short crust pastry and put into a tin, layer with silver foil and put baking beans in the tin and cook for 15mins
- Remove from the oven, taking the baking beans and silver foil out.
- Line the bottom of the pastry with pesto
- Add 6 eggs, milk, salt and pepper to a bowl and whisk up
- Add the chunks of feta, and olives to the egg mixture and pour into the pastry case.
- Cook in the oven on a medium temperature for 25minutes
- Remove from the oven and serve with a mixed salad perfect for an evening meal!
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: Big Jim, chilli, hot, new, olives, Scoville rating, Waitrose
Hot Chilli Olives are the latest product to be added to the unearthed range.
Our HOT Chilli olives are now available in Waitrose stores, priced at £2.95. They are green olives stuffed with hot red chillies and we reckon they are one of the hottest things you’ll find in any supermarket. Be adventurous and give them a go!
Some little Chilli facts for the heat-loving amongst you:
According to the Guinness book of records, the Bhut Jolokia of Assam is the world’s hottest chilli pepper, with an official Scoville rating of 1,001,304 , nearly doubling the heat of the previous record holder, the Red Savina with a rating of just 577,000. 25 year old Anandita Dutta Tamuly of Assam holds the record for eating these chilies, consuming a mouth-blistering 60 Bhut Jolokia in just 2 minutes!- Big Jim, a chilli hailing from New Mexico, is in the Guinness Book of Records as producing the biggest chilli pods, frequently producing chillies over a foot in length – quite impressive for plant that grows no more than 2 foot tall!
Let us know just how hot you think our hot chilli olives are, and give us a rating from ice-cool to supernova! We’d also like to hear your suggestions for putting the flames out afterwards…?
