Feta in olive oil with herbs
This recipe tells you how to preserve cubes of feta with herbs. It will keep for a long time and improves with keeping.
Using this feta in a salad, such as Greek salad, adds an amazing flavour.
Using this feta in a salad, such as Greek salad, adds an amazing flavour.
113 K 4.1/5 (22 reviews)
15 min.
Easy
3.95 €
200 g
6 IngredientsLast modified on: August 2nd 2015
2 
1 sprig 
2 sprigs 
200 g 
10 
200 ml Times for this recipe
Preparation: 15 min.
Cooking: 1 min.
All in all: 15 min.
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - ⌛ 1 min.
Blanch the herbs
Bring a saucepan of water to the boil. Plunge in all the herbs for 15 seconds.Keep the water on the boil.
Stage 2 - ⌛ 1 min.
Drain the herbs...
Stage 3 - ⌛ 1 min.
...and dry them.
Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.
Stage 5 - ⌛ 4 min.
Dice the feta to whatever size you prefer (I make them about the same size as a sugar cube).
Stage 6 - ⌛ 2 min.
Sterilize the jar
Pour a glassful of boiling water into the jar. Screw on the lid, wrap in a cloth for safety, and shake well to sterilize.
Throw the water away and dry the jar throughly.
Stage 7 - ⌛ 1 min.
Bottle
Put half the herbs and peppercorns into the bottom of the jar. Pour a little olive oil on top.
Stage 8 - ⌛ 2 min.
Add the diced feta, then the rest of the herbs.
Stage 9
Top up with oil...
Stage 10 - ⌛ 1 min.
...until the cheese is completely covered.
Stage 11
Put the lid on the jar and leave at room temperature for at least three weeks before starting to use the feta in your recipes.
Remarks
You can adapt this recipe to suit your own taste and the herbs you have, even the cheese (goat's cheese works well, too).
Keeping: Several months.
Source: Home made.
How much will it cost?
- For 200 g : 3.95 €
Change currency:
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Olive oil
Like these other recipes: Baby spinach salad, Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Green beans with tomato cream sauce, Gratin of purple artichokes, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, ... See them all 541
Feta
Like these other recipes: Tomato and courgette tart, Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Thin summer tart "à la grecque", Kalamata Salad, Greek salad with chicken, ... See them all 26
Peppercorns
Like these other recipes: Herb olive oil, Home-made chilli oil, Preserved lemons, Red mixed pickle, Salmon marinated like herring, ... See them all 5
Bayleaf
Like these other recipes: Parmesan milk, How to cook potato grenaille , Small ratatouille with , Mushrooms à la grecque, Provençal braised carrots, ... See them all 66
Other recipes you may also like
Bouquet garni
Used very frequently in French cuisine, a secret of French chefs, it adds flavour to a lot of recipes, and it's easy to prepare. The basic principle is to make a small bundle of herbs, bind them in green leek leaves and to tie it up, so that the whole thing can be removed and discarded easily after cooking. March 21th 2017433 K3.5 15 min.
Parisian-style chocolate custard tart
You may well already have met the classic French custard tart, with its vanilla filling. Here is a delicious chocolate-flavoured version. July 13th 202266 K 1 hour 8 min.
Preserved tomatoes
Softer than dried tomatoes, they can be used as a kind of chutney in pasta dishes for instance, or simply served to accompany an aperitif. February 21th 2011357 K4.8 5 hours 6 min.
How to prepare an avocado
Here is how to get from an avocado only the flesh of the fruit. January 9th 2010208 K 14 15 min.
How to prepare spinach
For most people (and me most of all), spinach brings back bad memories of canteens... But, well prepared, it's a fine and delicate vegetable which goes remarkably well with scrambled eggs, fish, and many another things. Here are two ways of preparing it. June 5th 20153.41 M3.5 1 hour 9 min.
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes (next batch due to be sent on 2025-11-09)
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Post a comment or question
Follow this recipe
If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.