Provençal Specialities

At Confit Direct we stock both black and green Tapenade (Tapenade Noire, Tapenade Verte) as well as other Provencal specialitites like and Cavier d'Aubergines.

Olive Tapenade

Tapenade is a Provençal dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil. Its name comes from the provençal word for capers, tapenas. It is a popular food in the south of France, where it is generally eaten as an hors d’œuvre, spread on bread. Sometimes it is also used to stuff fillets for a main course.

Food from Provence

Look at any market in Provence and the predominance of olives, garlic, onions and tomatoes will alert you to the main ingredients in a lot of Provence food. Provençal cuisine is heavily based on olive oil and there are literally hundreds of varieties ranging in colour from green to gold. Olives were introduced to Provence 2,500 years ago by the ancient Greeks, and now they are used in all aspects of cookery from the aperitif - usually a pastis - to salads, sauces, pizzas, tarts and with capers in tapenade paste, which is spread on bread.