Lucques
Olea europaea 'Lucques' · Fruit
Top 10 pairings
The Lucques is the celebrated green table olive of the Languedoc in southern France — a long, elegant, crescent-shaped drupe of vivid apple-green, famous for its curved "parrot's-beak" form and a sweet, buttery, barely-bitter flesh that tastes of hazelnut, fresh butter and avocado. Often called the queen of French olives, it is a prized apéritif and gourmet olive rather than an everyday brining variety.
Picking a good onedrag
Firm and glossy under a bright brineSlack and dull, the brine turned
SettledEveryday bestIt has dulled but stays dense. Use it in tapenade, pizza, roast chicken or braises.
The olivesA shade duller, skin still whole
Brine, jar or open tinSediment below, fruit still under
Squeeze one, once openGives a little, flesh still dense
Smell the open packSalty and sharp, a little vinegary
These cues are Olive's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
100%
Edible part
2.7 g drained · USDA records no refuse
2.7 g
Weight each
each one