Blue Cheese Olive ‘Gildas’
Try this riff on Spain’s classic pintxo, by way of Wisconsin.

By SAVEUR Editors


Published on December 11, 2024

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Classic gildas—the Spanish Basque country’s beloved pintxo—layer briny anchovy and olive with the bright heat of a pickled guindilla pepper. In a Midwestern riff from Fabiola’s Spaghetti House and Deli, the pepper is swapped out for the creamy, faintly peppery bite of Almena, Wisconsin’s Treasure Cave Blue Cheese.

  • Makes

    20 pieces

  • Time

    10 minutes

Lucy Hewett

Ingredients

  • 20 pitted Castelvetrano or Cerignola olives
  • 2 oz. Treasure Cave Blue Cheese, crumbled
  • 20 olive oil-packed anchovy fillets, drained and patted dry

Instructions

Step 1

Stuff each olive with blue cheese until there’s a bit of cheese peeking out. Skewer each with a cocktail pick, then add an anchovy fillet, folding it into an s-shape and piercing it through the middle. Serve cold or at room temperature. 
  1. Stuff each olive with blue cheese until there’s a bit of cheese peeking out. Skewer each with a cocktail pick, then add an anchovy fillet, folding it into an s-shape and piercing it through the middle. Serve cold or at room temperature. 
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Blue Cheese Olive ‘Gildas’

Try this riff on Spain’s classic pintxo, by way of Wisconsin.

  • Makes

    20 pieces

  • Time

    10 minutes

Gildas
LUCY HEWETT

By SAVEUR Editors


Published on December 11, 2024

Wisconsin Banner

Classic gildas—the Spanish Basque country’s beloved pintxo—layer briny anchovy and olive with the bright heat of a pickled guindilla pepper. In a Midwestern riff from Fabiola’s Spaghetti House and Deli, the pepper is swapped out for the creamy, faintly peppery bite of Almena, Wisconsin’s Treasure Cave Blue Cheese.

Ingredients

  • 20 pitted Castelvetrano or Cerignola olives
  • 2 oz. Treasure Cave Blue Cheese, crumbled
  • 20 olive oil-packed anchovy fillets, drained and patted dry

Instructions

Step 1

Stuff each olive with blue cheese until there’s a bit of cheese peeking out. Skewer each with a cocktail pick, then add an anchovy fillet, folding it into an s-shape and piercing it through the middle. Serve cold or at room temperature. 
  1. Stuff each olive with blue cheese until there’s a bit of cheese peeking out. Skewer each with a cocktail pick, then add an anchovy fillet, folding it into an s-shape and piercing it through the middle. Serve cold or at room temperature. 

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