A Quick Recipe For Fresh Goat Cheese And Olive Dip

                                           Olive Dip With Fresh Goat Cheese

This recipe is quick and easy and will provide your guests with a flavorful, eye-catching appetizer. Fresh goat cheese (Chevre) is light so it is great for the spring and summer seasons. Any fresh goat cheese will work here but we prefer to use the Montchevre brand or try any that your cheese retailer may suggest..



Ingredients:

11oz of fresh goat cheese

3/4 cup of light cream

1 cup of pitted Kalamata olives chopped roughly

1 cup of pitted green olive chopped roughly

1 sprig of fresh thyme leaves

Presentation and prep time 15 minutes

1. Mix the goat cheese and cream together in a small bowl until smooth.

2. Spread about 1/3 of the cheese spread into the bottm of a clean serving bowl.

3.Spread the chopped Kalamata olives over the entire surface of the cheese mix.

4.Spread another layer of cheese mix on top of the chopped olives.

5.Spread the chopped green olives on top of this cheese layer  as before.

Use the remaing cheese mix to cover the green olive layer . Smooth it out and sprinkle the fresh thyme leaves on top.

Serve at room temperature with crackers, flat breads or crusty bread.