Recipe

Savoury Olive Cake

Name: Savoury Olive Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 2 cups plain flour; 3 eggs; ½ cup extra virgin olive oil; ½ cup milk; 1 sachet baking powder; 1 cup black olives (roughly chopped); 100 g white cheese (crumbled); ½ bunch parsley (finely chopped); 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp black pepper

A breakfast cake bringing together brined olives and olive oil — a Turkish take on the Italian savoury cake tradition.

Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 8
Level: Easy
Cuisine: Turkish

Directions

Heat the oven to 180°C. Grease a loaf tin with olive oil.
Beat the eggs in a deep bowl, then stir in the olive oil and milk.
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and pepper together and fold gently into the wet mixture.
Fold in the olives, cheese and parsley.
Pour into the tin and bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes.
When a skewer comes out clean, remove it, rest for 10 minutes and slice.

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