Mediterranean Living’s Top 10 Favorite Garlic Recipes

By Christine Dutton
Updated April 25, 2014

Mediterranean Living’s Top 10 Easy Garlic Recipes

Garlic has many healthful benefits and is highly recommended as part of a Mediterranean Diet. It has cancer preventing anti-inflammatory properties. And, it also offers heart protection and has been shown to reduce high blood pressure and reduce the frequency of colds.

Not only is Garlic healthy, it is a great choice to liven up your meals. There’s a reason that garlic is used so often in recipes. If you are anything like us, garlic is one of life’s great pleasures. We’re sure you will be pleased with our list of top 10 Easy Garlic Recipes.

Get your garlic on!

With minimal prep time you can have a beautiful plate of roasted garlic drenched in herbed olive oil and capers. This recipe makes a beautiful presentation with a mere 10 minutes of prep time. Don’t worry, we won’t share your secret.

Garlic Olive Oil Plate with Capers from The Food Network

For many, a favorite way to prepare pasta is with an aioli (homemade garlic mayonnaise). We think you’ll love this aioli recipe using spring green garlic. It has quite the kick and is also great to serve with crudités.

 Green Garlic Aioli from Chow.

We’re always looking for new ways to use zucchini. You’ll want to be prepared for the summer heavy proliferation of zucchini in the garden. And, zucchini is also inexpensive and available year-round. Plus, it’s just as tasty out of season as in season. This recipe hits the spot and is super-fast to prepare.

Sauteed Zucchini(with Garlic!) from Food.com

This is what we call a simple yet beautiful thing. This highly rated recipe comes together fast and is sure to be a family favorite.

 Spaghetti with Oil and Garlic from The Food Network

We think you will love this recipe from Mediterranean Living. Many Mediterranean Living fans say they make this recipe, time and time again. Please rate the recipe and comment too. We love hearing back from the Mediterranean Living community about our recipes.

Sizzling Lemon Garlic Shrimp from Mediterranean Living

Wow! That’s a lot of garlic. This recipe hails from the famous The Stinking Rose restaurant in San Francisco. Anchovy fans are really going to enjoy this creation.

 Bagna Cauda from The Stinking Rose Restaurant in San Francisco

This recipe does have quite a few ingredients and takes a little time. However, it’s pretty easy to follow and well worth the effort!

 Yotam Ottolenghi’s Garlic & Harissa Soup at The Guardian

Have you heard about traditional Greek garlic dip? We know you’re going to love this because it’s a garlicky mashed potato sauce. All you mashed potato fans, give this a try.

 Greek Garlic Sauce from The Splendid Table

Here’s some more potato goodness. This recipe is also very garlicky calling for two heads of garlic. This is a popular recipe and it’s truly the best way to make a potato salad.

 Roasted Potato and Garlic Salad

Garlic and eggplant pair beautiful. You shall see when you try this stellar Easy Baba Ganoush recipe from Food Republic.

 Easy Baba Ganoush recipe from Food Republic

Enjoy!

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