26 of the Best Garlic Recipes

Garlic is one of the most versatile and commonly used ingredients around the world. There are very few dishes that don’t benefit from a garlicky hit but here I’ve been super restrained and chosen just 26 of the Best Garlic Recipes!

It doesn’t matter what I’m cooking, there is always a huge chance that garlic is involved. Sometimes its just a base flavour like in my Chorizo & Butternut Risotto or White Bean Chilli. And sometimes the flavour is front and centre like with many of the recipes below.

Garlic can be mellow and rich or sharp and spicy depending on how you treat it. One of the simplest ways to introduce garlic to many dishes is to make a compound butter. You can go straight garlic or add herbs. I love oregano!

How to Make Garlic Butter

This simple How to Make Garlic Butter guide includes easy step by step instructions for making a simple compound butter. From garlic bread to roasted mushrooms, the included recipe for Garlic Oregano Butter has a million uses and is endlessly adaptable too.

Garlic Dips, Spreads & Sauces

From sandwich spread to dips with chips and vegan pate, garlic crops up with unsurprising regularity in these sorts of dishes. Here are a selection of my favourites.

Simple Plain Hummus (Super Smooth)

This classically flavoured Plain Hummus is one of those foods where the homemade version ruins you for the shop-bought kind. Luckily it is super simple to make with easy to obtain ingredients. My version is creamy, silky smooth and ready in just 15 minutes.

Guacamole

Holy Guacamole! Did you know that you can own a house and enjoy avocado on a regular basis? I’m living proof folks! Guacamole is a family favourite around these parts this is my recipe for a fully loaded but nearly smooth guacamole. So tasty!

Tahini Yogurt Dressing

This easy no-cook Tahini Yogurt Dressing is a flavour bomb which takes a simple garlic, coriander sauce and ramps it up a notch with the tang of sesame paste. In even better news, it’s so versatile that it’s equally at home with Indian, Mexican and Middle Eastern inspired dishes.

Smoky Garlic Mushroom Pate – Planet Veggie

This mushroom pâté is an earthy, smoky, spreadable mush that could be served with flatbreads or oatcakes or rice cakes or in wraps or with salad or as part of a mezze or just eaten with a spoon. A really big spoon

Vegetables with Garlic

Bored of boring boiled vegetables? The solution is simple. Add garlic.

Pea Puree with Garlic

My Pea Puree with Garlic is a great versatile side dish which is just that bit more exciting than another portion of plain boiled peas! Perfect for batch cooking to keep portions in the freezer for easy reheating. I don’t think you can go wrong with garlicky peas, just don’t call them fancy mushy peas!

Garlic Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Garlic Roasted Sweet Potatoes are one of my favourite side dishes. They go with almost everything from fish to pork chops and even make a great addition to salads, tacos and soups. Talk about versatile! As a bonus my recipe includes my top tip for avoiding that burnt horrible garlic taste.

Sesame Tenderstem Broccoli

Sesame Tenderstem Broccoli is a brilliant side dish that can be thrown together in minutes with very few ingredients. Tenderstem (or broccolini) is one of my go-to greens and I love coming up with new ways to serve it!

Maple Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

My Maple Roasted Cherry Tomatoes are another of my favourite versatile sides. The maple syrup enhances the natural sweetness of the super cute tomatoes and garlic provides a little extra bite. I serve these tomatoes with almost everything. You should too!

Roasted Mushrooms with Garlic Butter

These easy Roasted Mushrooms with Garlic Butter are simplicity itself. But don’t let simple fool you, these 30 minute baked mushrooms are so packed with flavour that your taste buds won’t know what to do with themselves!

Buttery Lemon & Garlic Green Beans

I wasn’t a bean lover until I made these Buttery Lemon & Garlic Green Beans but I’m a convert now! They’re a 10 minute wonder of a side dish and far more than the sum of their parts. Plus they’re as delicious served with roast meats as a simple sausage plait or even as a barbecue side dish!

Meat with Garlic

From being park of a marinade, to part of a flavoured butter, mixed directly into the meat itself or as part of the sauce, garlic complements almost any meat. (I don’t like it with Gammon but with bacon in a pasta situation is fine. Go figure!)

Korean Belly Pork

My Korean Belly Pork is one of my most popular recipes and one of my absolute favourites. The perfectly glazed and soft Pork Belly is not too spicy but has a little warmth, sweetness and bags of umami. I know that this Korean Bossam Pork dish will be your instant favourite too. 

Paprika & Sage Butter Roast Chicken

My Paprika & Sage Butter Roast Chicken was declared “the best chicken ever” by my former housemate and I am inclined to agree! The credit really goes to the generous layer of spiced butter which is smothered over the whole bird before roasting. You really can’t go wrong.

Chicken Shawarma with Garlic Sauce – Easy Peasy Foodie

Chicken drenched in a deliciously easy marinade, full of gorgeous Middle Eastern spices, then roasted in the oven for 20 minutes – so simple, but unbelievably good!

Seafood with Garlic

Is there anything more appealing that the words “garlic butter prawns”? I’m not sure there is. But it turns out that you can use it with a multitude of seafood too.

Garlic Mussels On Toast – Fab Food 4 All

A quick and simple lunch that’s ready in 5 minutes, garlic mussels on toast

Pan Fried Garlic Butter Prawns – Greedy Gourmet

In this garlic butter prawns recipe you’ll learn how to prepare shell-on prawns before pan frying them. It is an easy and quick dinner to prepare any time of the week!

Garlic Breads

Its the future. Thats what I heard anyway.

Cheesy Garlic Rolls

My Cheesy Garlic Rolls are the perfect grab-and-go version of my ever popular Cheesy Pull Apart Garlic Bread. The enriched bread is gorgeously soft, the cheese stringy and the garlic bordering on spicy. You’re going to want to make a double batch!

Garlic Bread & Tomato Bake – Farmersgirl Kitchen

Garlic Bread and Tomato Bake is a quick and easy recipe that’s filling and tasty and can be put together from a few simple ingredients.

Olive, Garlic & Halloumi Spelt Bread – Tin & Thyme

Eliopsomi is a Greek Cypriot olive garlic bread. This olive garlic spelt version is beautifully textured with a full on olive and garlic flavour and added depth from the halloumi. It’s great for mopping up sauce from the plate and its delicious toasted.

Garlic Pasta, Rice & Soups

There are some fabulous options here including a great use for black garlic which has a lovely distinct flavour and two entirely different takes on soup.

Creamy Garlic Mushroom Soup

This extra Creamy Garlic Mushroom Soup is so packed with flavour, your taste buds will be tingling. It's quick and simple to make and just as good for a quick lunch as a main meal.

Garlic Soup – Lost In Food

A simple garlic broth, healthy and quick to prepare. Delicious and light on it’s own but also a great tasty base for other soups.

Garlic & Basil Pasta – Crunch and Cream

This simple garlic and basil pasta recipe is one to keep in your back pocket for busy evenings. It’s quick, easy, requires minimal ingredients – and most importantly, it’s absolutely delicious!

Easy Green Rice (Coriander & Garlic)

This Easy Green Rice recipe is as at home served with an Indian inspired curry as with a South American feast (call it Arroz Verde) or simple chicken and grilled veg. Super tasty, super versatile, super easy and fool proof – this will be your new go-to side dish!

Something Different

I had to work really hard to not include another 20 options just in this section alone. But I settled on four.

Classic Caesar Salad

Classic Caesar Salad is exactly that. Classic. Minimal ingredients give maximum flavour which makes it perfect as a starter or side dish. Make sure this classic makes it into your repertoire.

Hot Honey Butter Garlic Sauce

This Hot Honey Butter Garlic Sauce is a magical 5 minute elixir of incredible flavour that makes anything that it touches taste incredible. Now this might sound like an exaggeration but nope, it really is that good!

Poached Egg & Garlic Spinach Bagel – Fab Food 4 All

Quick Poached Egg & Garlic Spinach Bagel is the perfect healthy and delicious brunch!

Cheesy Garlic Butter Pinwheels – Crunch & Cream

These cheesy garlic butter pinwheels are super quick and easy, taking only 25 minutes start-to-finish, as well as being vegetarian and re-heatable! What could be better?

So now tell me what you favourite garlic recipes are!

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