Marinated Feta Cheese in Olive Oil homemade recipe

I love marinated feta cheese and yet I’d never tried making a homemade recipe. Now I have, and I’d love to try it again, because I can tell you it’s a real treat!

The marinade makes it very soft and gives it a super delicious flavor.

Marinated Feta Cheese in Olive Oil homemade Recipe

How can you eat marinated feta?

• In a salad, with tomatoes or watermelon, for example…
• With pasta, as in my baked feta pasta…
• On hot toast, to slightly melt the feta, yum!

What ingredients do you need to make this basic recipe for marinated feta cheese in olive oil with rosemary?

• feta cheese made from sheep’s milk
• olive oil
• black or 5-peppercorn pepper
• fresh rosemary sprigs

What other feta marinade recipes can you make?

For this version, I’ve kept it fairly classic and simple, but you can try other combinations, always keeping an olive oil base:

• Fresh or dried dill with pink berries.
• Fresh or dried mint/verbena with organic lemon zest.
• Garlic cloves and sage or bay leaves.
• Dried tomatoes and basil leaves.
• Espelette pepper and garlic.

What other feta-based recipes would you like to try?

• Olive and feta cake
• Feta cream dip
• Feta and lemon hummus
• Zucchini spaghetti with pesto, roasted tomatoes, feta and croutons
• Cucumber, chickpea and feta salad
• Delicacy potato, pea and feta salad

Marinated Feta Cheese in Olive Oil

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Prep Time:10 minutes mins

Resting Time:3 days d

Total Time:3 days d 10 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer, Starter

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Servings: 1 jar

Ingredients

• 100 g sheep's milk Feta cheese
• 20-30 cl olive oil
• 1 teaspoon black or 5-peppercorn pepper
• 1 1 sprig rosemary

Instructions

• Place the rinsed rosemary sprig in a sterilized jam jar.
• Cut the feta cheese into small cubes and place in the jar with the rosemary.

  Add peppercorns.
• Pour in the olive oil until the feta is completely covered.
• Close the jar and leave to marinate in a cool place for 3 days.

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