Olive Oil Recipes
Find the best olive oil recipe for your restaurant or other food business
A great olive oil recipe can literally make a dish. Whether you decide to create your own flavored olive oils or instead use store-bought olive oils, a good-quality olive oil can help make your dishes fabulous. Olive oil not only adds terrific flavor, but it's healthy, too, with just 120 calories and 14 grams of fat per tablespoon. It's also high in monounsaturated fat, which helps reduce "bad" cholesterol.When seeking olive oil recipes and olive oil recipe tips, look for recipes made with ingredients your customers are familiar with, in addition to some that are more exotic. Have fun experimenting with flavored olive oils; why not create a signature oil for your food business? And try using olive oil whenever possible to cook all of your menu. When researching olive oil recipes, try the following:
1. Seek an online olive oil recipe that appeals to you or has been favorably reviewed by online readers.
2. Buy an olive oil recipe book written by an established cookbook author.
3. Test several olive oil recipes and olive oil recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.
Select an online olive oil recipe
Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow cooks (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for an olive oil recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites, either.
Try: CDKitchen offers some great recipes for making your own flavored olive oils, including roasted garlic and lemon olive oil. AllSands also has some basic recipes for making flavored olive oil with garlic, chili peppers or rosemary.
Find an olive oil recipe card for dishes made with olive oil
You can improve almost any dish by using olive oil to create it. Try substituting olive oil for other oils and fats. Use a variety of types of olive oil, too, including flavored oils.
Try: Recipezaar has a huge collection of recipes using olive oil, including roasted asparagus, bourbon chicken and Greek potatoes. Brentwood Olive Oil Company has a smaller, but still inspiring, offering of olive oil based recipes, such as Southwestern catfish fry, chip and bread dip and lemon garlic pasta.
Make use of an olive oil recipe book
A good olive oil recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in making olive oil dishes for your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general tips that can help make olive oil dishes easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try: "Michael Chiarello's Flavored Oils And Vinegars," featuring 100 recipes for both making and using flavored olive oils, is available from Cooking.com. Tower.com sells "The Flavors of Olive Oil" by Deborah Krasner, which offers up both recipes for and plenty of advice on using olive oil.
- When making flavored oil and using olive oil recipe ingredients, don't throw away the herbs and other flavorings once your oil has achieved the taste you desire. Instead, store them in the refrigerator to use in dishes. They will keep longer than fresh herbs, since the olive oil they've been sitting in will help preserve them.
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