Chinese Olive Leaf in a jar I picked up in Beijing

[quantabeam]

Hi all,

My first post.

I recall having dished made w/this when I was in Beijing, but can't remember any of them.

Does anyone know of any dishes using Chinese olive leaf? Or even better, any recipes?

Cheers,
Q

[p0lst3r]

Pork, Green Beans and Chinese Olive Dumpling
A famous regional dish in northern part of China, great taste of marinated olive leaf, minced pork and green beans

I guess you can mash it up with ground pork etc to make dumplings or pork balls for soup.

[quantabeam]

never had any in dumplings, although it sounds pretty good. i seem to recall eggplant, and maybe some other dishes that were pretty light, possibly all veg.

[Luther]

On the pork/green beans note, it's also great in a dry-fried Sichuan type green bean preparation with dry red chiles and Sichuan peppercorns.

[quantabeam]

here's a photo of the jar.

btw, is it really olive? or some other veg? i'd more expect to see this kind of product in spain or italy than china.

i'm also wondering why a google search turns up nothing.

[Luther]

Yup, various kinds of olive products (including salty and/or sweet dried ones as snacks) are popular across China.

http://www.fruitipedia.com/chinese_ol...

[quantabeam]

thanks!
i'd been typing chinese olive leaf into google and finding nothing, but chinese olive is a slightly different story.
ever see it w/eggplant?

[Luther]

hmm... never had it with eggplant myself

[M_Gomez]

We have different brands of olive leaves on sale in Singapore. I first discovered it about 20 years ago, introduced to me by one of my sisters who lived in Hong Kong.

In Singapore, a Thai-Chinese restaurant called Her Sea Palace did a wonderful fried rice dish with this. Personally, I'd have some of these olive leaves with just a bowl of plain rice congee, and it's delicious as it is.

[quantabeam]

sounds delish.

i'll have to try that.

[p0lst3r]

Could you snap some pics of the jar/label and post here pls?

I'm sure I can get a good answer for you (I'm interested myself) and a pic will make the job easier.

Cheers,
Ian

[quantabeam]

The jar doesn't say olive leaf, as far I can read, but maybe in Chinese? There were many other brands of the same stuff at the grocery store that did say "olive leaf" but we bought this one.