Savory Niva cheese cake with olives and walnuts

Name: Savory Niva cheese cake with olives and walnuts
Yield: 1 cake
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 500 g Niva (Czech blue cheese) (in one piece); 100 g Black olives; 2 Eggs (hard-boiled); 50 g Carrots; 80 g Walnuts; 1 tsp Chili flakes (red pepper flakes); to taste Herbs; 3 tbsp Mayonnaise; to taste Salt and pepper

Niva blue cheese layered with olives, eggs, carrots, walnuts, herbs, and mayonnaise, then chilled overnight. Makes 1 savory cheese cake.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Servings: 1 cake
Difficulty: Easy

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This savory Niva cheese cake with olives and walnuts is a cold appetizer shaped like a small cake, with cheese in place of cake layers. Let a whole piece of Niva, a Czech blue cheese, soften, then slice it horizontally and fill it with a mixture of black olives, chopped eggs, carrots, walnuts, herbs, and mayonnaise. Decorate the sides with the remaining herbs and refrigerate overnight to let the flavors meld. You can substitute another cheese for the Niva according to your taste and availability.

Instructions

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Unwrap the cheese and let it soften at room temperature for 30 minutes. Place the olives, peeled and coarsely chopped eggs, chopped carrots, and 2/3 of the chopped walnuts in a bowl.
Season with salt and pepper, add the chili flakes, and mix thoroughly. Stir in 2/3 of the finely chopped herbs and the mayonnaise.
Slice the cheese horizontally into two layers. Spread the filling over the bottom layer, cover with the top layer, and press down gently. Coat the sides of the cheese with the remaining herbs and refrigerate overnight to let the flavors meld.
Garnish the cheese with the remaining walnuts before serving.

Tip: Slice the Niva horizontally using a taut thread to keep the crumbly cheese from breaking as it might under a knife. Drain the olives thoroughly before adding them to the filling, or it will become runny and leak out from between the cheese layers.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 326 kcal
Protein: 15 g
Carbohydrates: 4.0 g
of which sugars: 0.9 g
Fat: 28 g
of which saturates: 12 g
Fiber: 1.0 g
Salt: 2.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Slaná syrová torta z nivy s olivami a orechmi