This olive bread recipe is one of my family’s FAVORITE weekend and holiday appetizers. Olive Bread – Yum! This recipe is SUPER easy and you can adjust it to what you think your family will like. I would suggest making it the first time the way I have posted and then going from there.
You’ll need black olives, green olives with pimento’s, green onion, Monterey Jack cheese, softened butter, and mayo.
Grab a little (or two!) to help you chop up your olives and shred the cheese. The olives are soft enough they can use a plastic knife and if you have a rotary cheese grater, you don’t have to worry about them catching their skin on the cheese grater!
Combine all ingredients together. Now, you can do this a day ahead of time and put it in the fridge until you need it. Or, make it right away!
Cut one loaf of crusty french bread in half. Smother each side with the mix. Bake at 350 for about 15min. then turn on the broiler and brown the top until golden!
After you’ve made it once, try different cheeses. Pepper-jack adds a little kick to it! Diced onions instead of green onion, olives with jalapeños instead of pimento, add a little cream cheese – whatever sounds good and your family loves!
- 14 oz can of black olives
- 6 oz of green olives with pimento’s
- 3 stalks green onion
- 1lb of Monterey Jack cheese
- 1 stick salted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup real mayo
- Chop olives.
- Chop green onion.
- Shred Monterey Jack cheese.
- Combine all ingredients together.
- Cut a loaf of french bread in half.
- Smother each side with your olive and cheese mix.
- Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes.
- Turn on broiler until the top is golden.
Not a single bit will be left! I was almost too late for a picture! I actually posted this before, but wanted to share it again since I was actually able to get some pictures of it this time without them eating it all the second it was done!
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im so so so hungry right now!!! slurp slurp!
OMG, this looks so good. Just curious, where did you get the bread from?
It was a plain loaf of french bread from Kroger.
Is there a printer friendly version? I’ve been seeing this one on here for a while and I’m finally going to try it! Thanks!
I’m not a huge fan of olives but this looks delicious! Is there anything that can be subbed in for the olives?
Gosh I don’t know! You could just leave them out. What about mushrooms?
I think leaving them out might be good! Like a cheesy bread.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Made it last night. It is a keeper!!!!! I used 1/2 monterey and sharp cheddar had reg onion instead.We had that and a salad for dinner. I also took it next door for my parents and they loved also. It was so yummy I’m taking it to my sister inlaws for Christmas dinner. 🙂
I made this for our Thanksgiving dinner and it was a HUGE hit!!! Thank you it was so good!
I make this all the time and friends love it. I change it up sometimes adding artichokes, spinach or canned chilies or all the items if I have leftovers, just make sure to drain or pat down some of the extra liquid in other items. Perfect with a bowel of soup or a glass of wine!!!
Thank you so much for this yummy recipe! So so good!