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, onion, fine sea salt, dried herbs, basil and pasta. The dishes here span italian classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Classic Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 15,600 ratings.