Easy Blue Cheese Stuffed Green Olives Recipe
on Nov 12, 2025
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This Easy Blue Cheese Stuffed Green Olives Recipe is a simple and elegant appetizer. The mixture is tossed with olive brine and goat cheese, stuffed inside the olives, and then marinated in an infused extra-virgin olive oil.
If you’re looking for more appetizer recipes, check out our Cranberry Baked Brie Cheese (15 Minute Appetizer) and Easy 15 Minute Smoked Trout Dip.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- No cooking required if not infusing olive oil, and easy assembly
- Can be made from start to finish in under 15 minutes
- Has fewer than 5 ingredients
- Easy to prep ahead
Recipe Ingredients
Below are the ingredients you need to make this recipe, including all our tips and substitutions.
- Large green pitted olives: For this recipe, we are using Castelvetrano olives, which are more subtle in texture but creamy. They are also bigger than other green olives, making them a great vessel for stuffing the blue cheese mixture.
- Cheese filling: The filling is a mix of blue cheese, goat cheese, olive brine, and freshly cracked black pepper.
- For the olive oil marinade: We are preparing an infused olive oil made with chili flakes and lemon (peel and juice), with extra-virgin olive oil to pour over the stuffed olives.
The full list of ingredients with exact quantities can be found on the recipe card below.
Tips and Substitutions
- You can use cream cheese in place of goat cheese, if preferred.
- Prep: You can prepare this ahead and serve it later. Either stuff the olives and add over the olive oil and store, or you can make the cheese filling and stuff at the time of serving.
- Storing: Store stuffed olives in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days.
How to Make Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives
Step 1: Make the filling in a bowl. Mix together room temperature blue cheese, goat cheese, pepper, and olive brine.
Step 2: Pipe into a plastic bag, cutting off the corner. Pipe into the olives and transfer to a platter (or store).
Step 3: Make your olive oil infusion with oil, lemon peel, lemon juice, chili flakes, and pepper.
Step 4: Pour over your olives and serve with toothpicks.
The full detailed instructions can be found on the recipe card below.
Serving Recommendations
Looking for some ideas to serve with these blue cheese-stuffed green olives? We have you covered!
- Start as an appetizer with Brown Sugar and Butter Roasted Turkey Breast, Cast Iron Skillet Whole Roasted Chicken (with Maple Butter!), or Garlic Herb Roasted Chicken.
- For additional appetizers to serve with these olives, try our Burrata and Steak Crostini, Asian Cucumber Salad with Chili and Garlic, or Classic French Escargot Recipe with Garlic Butter or just placed on a cheese board.
- For a holiday dinner, pair with Prime Rib with Au Jus and Simple Roasted Delicata Squash Salad with Fennel and Radicchio.
- For a holiday side dish, serve alongside Creamy Four Cheese Macaroni and Cheese (with Smoked Gouda!).
- You can also put these olives on a toothpick and place them on top of a dirty martini or other cocktails, such as Bloody Marys.
Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives FAQs
Yes, you can stuff your olives ahead of time and keep them in the fridge up to 4 days.
Any of your favorite blue cheeses will work! It’s up to you if you prefer it a little more funky or a little more mild. Using a gorogonla will work, too.
Any large green olives that are pitted will work for this recipe.
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Easy Blue Cheese Stuffed Green Olives Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 ounces blue cheese, softened at room temperature
- 2 ounces goat cheese, softened at room temperature
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 5.5 ounce can pitted Castelventrano olives, plus 2 tablespoons olive brine
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, plus 3 to 4 lemon strips
- Pinch of chili flakes
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix your blue cheese, goat cheese, black pepper and olive brine until a creamy mixture is formed. Transfer to a plastic bag, squeezing your mixture towards the corner of the bag. Cut off the tip to be able to pipe into the olives.
- Pipe into your olives carefully and transfer the stuffed olives to a shallow platter of choice. Set aside in the fridge.
- In a small saucepan (you can alternatively just mix this together and not cook your infusion), bring the heat to medium low, add in your olive oil, lemon juice, lemon peel, chili flakes and pepper. Lemon this all infused for 1 to 2 minutes, turn off the heat.
- When ready to serve, spoon over your infused olive oil over the olives. Serve with toothpicks.
Notes
- You can use cream cheese in place of goat cheese, if preferred.
- Prep: You can prepare this ahead and serve it later. Either stuff the olives and add over the olive oil and store, or you can make the cheese filling and stuff at the time of serving.
- Storing: Store stuffed olives in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
A no fuss, but really impressive appetizer for any occasion! Especially great for a quick app for Thanksgiving coming up. I hope you enjoy!