Marcus Wareing's olive and feta muffin recipe makes a wonderfully-flavoured accompaniment to dinner or a delightful snack or brunch item. Top Tip - Make these savoury muffins in batches and store in an air-tight container ready for packed lunches or unexpected visitors

Olive and feta muffin recipe

Canapé

Easy

50 minutes

6

Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/Gas mark 4 and butter a standard-size 12-hole muffin tin
2.
To make the muffin mixture, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and pepper together with the cheddar cheese in a large mixing bowl
3.
Stir the eggs, half the milk, oil, olives, parsley, tarragon and thyme together, then add the dry ingredients, prepared in Step 1 and lightly mix together until just combined
4.
Separately mix the feta, cream cheese and another 2 tbsp of milk together to form a paste. Half fill each mould in the muffin tin with the muffin mixture, add one twelfth of the feta mixture to each muffin, then top each with the remaining muffin mixture
5.
Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds, then place in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave the muffins to cool in their tin
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Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp of baking powder
  • 250g of plain flour
  • 0.5 tsp of salt
  • 0.5 tsp of freshly ground black pepper
  • 40g of cheddar, grated
  • 3 free-range eggs, beaten
  • 4 tbsp of semi skimmed milk
  • 50ml of extra virgin olive oil
  • 100g of black olives, pitted and sliced
  • 1 tbsp of tarragon, chopped
  • 2 tbsp of flat-leaf parsley, chopped
  • 1/4 bunch of thyme, leaves only
  • 100g of feta
  • 50g of cream cheese
  • 40g of pumpkin seeds
  • butter for greasing

Equipment

  1. Muffin tin

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Marcus Wareing's olive and feta muffin recipe is a savoury friend for a meal or a delicious treat on its own. Fresh herbs make these olive muffins stand out.

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nikolka79
GARLIC , CORIANDER & DILL is a must to dive this humble muffin a little further depth Plus olives have to be the sweet plum type best kalamata greek olives !

When making olives and feta baked good Dill is what gives it that freshness coriander gives the lemony freshness !
4 February 2013
nikolka79
GARLIC , CORIANDER & DILL is a must to dive this humble muffin a little further depth Plus olives have to be the sweet plum type best kalamata greek olives !

When making olives and feta baked good Dill is what gives it that freshness coriander gives the lemony freshness !
4 February 2013
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