Trufas de chocolate y aceitunas espanolas (Chocolate and Spanish olive truffles)

How about trying these fantastic Trufas de chocolate y aceitunas espanolas, courtesy of Olives from Spain and Omar Allibhoy.

It'll take approximately 6 hours, but most of that is leaving them in the fridge.

Ingredients:

• 150g double cream
• 220g of 70% dark chocolate
• 1 orange zest
• 50g of black pitted Spanish olives
• 40g of butter

Directions:

1. Take 150g of black olives and blend them into a rough paste with a food processor.
2. Place a medium sized pot with the double cream over a low heat. When this is almost at boiling point, turn off the heat and add the chopped dark chocolate, orange zest and the olive pate.
3. Mix the truffle mixture well with a spatula until you have a smooth texture.
4. The mix should still be warm, now add the chopped butter to give extra shine and silkiness to the truffles mix.
5. Cover the pot with cling film and cool down in the fridge for 5-7 hours for the mix to harden so that you can shape it into balls later on.
6. Once cool and hard, it's time to make little balls with your hands, shape the mixture and then coat them with cocoa powder.

Tip:
Place them back in the fridge to enjoy them cold, as they take longer to melt in your mouth!

Olives from Spain

I'd like to tell you about Olives from Spain who are encouraging Brits across the country to shake up lunch and dinner times. They've got Omar Allibhoy, the celeb chef, as seen on This Morning and dubbed the Antonio Banderas of cooking by Gordon Ramsey, on board who has created some great recipes for us all to enjoy at home.

Omar wants to address the misconception that the majority of the world's olives are produced in Greece and Italy, when it is in fact Spain accounts for 40% of the world's total. Spain has a long tradition when it comes to growing olive trees and harvesting their fruit. Generation after generation, Spain produces the highest quality olives - the hours of sunshine, short winters and perfect soils make Spanish olives the most juicy and tasty in the world. Elegant and delicious, simple and sophisticated; olives from Spain are loved by adults and children alike.

Omar has made numerous TV appearances including Market Kitchen, Masterchef and This Morning and has now exclusively developed five delicious recipes, using the finest olives from Spain, to show us Brits how to get creative in the kitchen with this wonderful ingredient.

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