Valentine's Day Gift: Black Olive Paste | Salty Love
Description
Celebrate Valentine's Day with our Douro Black Olive Paste with Spices, an authentic expression of salty love.
This special Valentine's Day offer adds a touch of flavor and passion to your moments together. Combining the richness of Douro olives and the sophistication of spices, it is a unique sensorial experience.
Accompanied by a customizable Sweet Love Leaflet, it allows you to offer customized messages of love to your better half.
Surprise your love with this gourmet delight and transform your Valentine's Day into a truly memorable experience.
This paste has already been recognized internationally by the ITQI Awards 2017 – with 2 stars, having been evaluated by more than 125 Chefs and Sommeliers in a blind tasting in which parameters such as texture, flavor, smell and visual appearance are evaluated.
Suggested Use
Ideal for cereal bread, fresh cereal bread and other types of bread, corn and rye bread, vegan crackers, wasabi or goat cheese and Swiss chard toast. Use in game dishes, to season salads such as couscous salad and Greek salad, vegetarian salads, and pasta, or to spread with cream cheese. Use as an aperitif.
Recipes | Chef
- Greek Salad with Negrinha do Douro Olive Paste meia.dúzia® - Chef Álvaro Costa
- Fresh goat cheese salad with Negrinha do Douro Olive Paste meia.dúzia® and beetroot bread
- Niçoise Style Tuna Salad with Negrinha do Douro Olive Paste meia.dúzia® - Chef Álvaro Costa
- Goat Cheese Toast with Bravo de Esmolfe Apple Jam with Cinnamon meia.dúzia®, Negrinha do Douro Olive Paste meia.dúzia® and Red Pepper Chutney meia.dúzia® - Chef Álvaro Costa
Ingredients
“Negrinha do Douro” olive (81%), virgin olive oil, honey, spices, acidity regulator (citric acid) and salt. It may contain traces of olive pits.
Nutritional information
Average nutritional information per 100 g / 3.53 oz: Energy 1206 kJ / 286 kcal; Fats 8,2 g / 0.3oz, of which saturated fat acids 5,0 g / 0.2oz; Carbohydrates 49,7 g / 2oz, of which sugars 48,7 g / 2oz; Proteins 2,0 g / 0.07oz; Salt 0,0 g / 0.0 oz.
Origin of raw materials
The “Negrinha do Douro” olive, of Protected Domination of Origin (PDO), is grown in olive groves on the steep slopes of the Douro Valley region, northern Portugal, in a hot, dry climate and on schist soils. This olive, round and smooth, with a firm consistency, weighing an average of 3 to 5 grams each, has a yellowish-green to violet-black color, depending on the state of maturation. It is harvested manually on the slopes of the Douro Valley.