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Turned or Stoned Olives
Created by Chef Juliette
Olives tournées teach pure knife control: follow each stone in one close spiral, then hold the freed fruit in lightly salted water, plump and ready for sauces, garnishes, or the table.
Olives tournées ou dénoyautées (turned or stoned olives) teach a small, exact principle: the knife follows the stone, and the fruit turns around the blade. Cut outward and you waste flesh; keep the point close and the olive slips free in one plump spiral. No pan is involved. The whole preparation lives in the hand.
The classical entry assumed a dedicated olive stoner and a brigade preparing whatever quantity service demanded. A handheld olive pitter is the honest home equivalent, while a small paring knife preserves the entry's spirally cut method when no pitter is at hand. Because the source gives no quantity, this version sets a useful home batch of 24 to 30 olives and defines slightly salted water as a gentle 1 percent saline. The special instrument and service-sized basin are scaffolding; the close cut and salted hold are the dish, and they stay.
Choose firm olives, work over the board, and keep the blade touching the stone as the fruit turns. That contact is the one step that decides everything.
Ingredients
firm brine-cured stone-in olives
Quantity
2 cups (480 ml / 300 g), about 24 to 30
cold water
Quantity
2 cups (480 ml / 480 g)
fine sea salt
Quantity
1 teaspoon (5 ml / 5 g)
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| firm brine-cured stone-in olives | 2 cups (480 ml / 300 g), about 24 to 30 |
| cold water | 2 cups (480 ml / 480 g) |
| fine sea salt | 1 teaspoon (5 ml / 5 g) |
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