Italian Garlic Recipes

Italian cooking is built on restraint — a handful of excellent ingredients treated simply, letting each one taste of itself. When Italian cooks work with garlic, they reach for olive oil, garlic, basil, oregano, tomatoes, parmesan and a good splash of wine, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, sautéing and roasting.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with olive oil, fine sea salt, extra-virgin olive oil, onion, dry white wine and parmesan. The dishes here span italian classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.