Muffaletta With Olive Tapenade Recipes

Steps:

• Cut the loaf in half horizontally. Spread the Olive Giardiniera Salad crust to crust on both sides of the bread. Then, layer the cheese on the bottom, followed by high ribbons of the mortadella, salami and capicola. Cover with the top half of the bread and let sit 20 to 30 minutes so the salad's oil can soak into the bread. Cut into pie-shaped wedges and serve to the masses.
• Put the olives, red peppers, giardiniera with oil, capers, vinegar, parsley and sugar in the bowl of a food processor and pulse 8 to 10 times until a coarse relish forms.

Steps:

• Drain all the water from the olives and the peppers.
• In a large bowl, combine the green olive slices, olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt and spices.
• In another large bowl, combine the peppers and kalamata olives.
• Stir both bowls thoroughly.
• Pulse the peppers and kalamata olives in a food processor or Robot Coupe until roughly chopped.
• Combine the pulsed olives and peppers with the green olives and oil. Mix thoroughly.
• Transfer all contents into canning jars and seal according to safe canning procedures.
• Makes a bunch of olive salad, but when you live too far from New Orleans to buy it and the cost is $90 for 4-quarts of the Original from Central Grocery -- you make it. BTW, this recipe uses real olive oil like they used in the old days. Now it's canola oil in the store-bought versions.
• I'm not a fan of giardiniera so this recipe is missing it. I did replace it with Peppadew peppers and loved the result. If you'd like to use giardiniera, just replace the amount of peppadew peppers used.

Steps:

• To Make Olive Salad: In a medium bowl, combine the green olives, kalamata olives, garlic, cauliflower, capers, celery, carrot, pepperoncini, cocktail onions, celery seed, oregano, basil, black pepper, vinegar, olive oil and canola oil. Mix together and transfer mixture into a glass jar (or other nonreactive container). If needed, pour in more oil to cover. Cover jar or container and refrigerate at least overnight.
• To Make Sandwiches: Cut loaves of bread in half horizontally; hollow out some of the excess bread to make room for filling. Spread each piece of bread with equal amounts olive salad, including oil. Layer 'bottom half' of each loaf with 1/2 of the salami, ham, mortadella, mozzarella and Provolone. Replace 'top half' on each loaf and cut sandwich into quarters.
• Serve immediately, or wrap tightly and refrigerate for a few hours; this will allow for the flavors to mingle and the olive salad to soak into the bread.

Steps:

• Combine green and black olives, olive oil, capers, red wine vinegar, shallot, garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
• Cut salami and deli ham so they fit onto the crackers. Spread cream cheese on the crackers, top with a piece of salami, a piece of ham, and a spoonful of the olive salad.