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10 dishes sure to meet olive your expectations

Olive oil is the sneakiest of all pantry staples. It's great for a sear, coat, marinade, the list goes on. It also adds moisture to desserts and is a simple dressing for laid-back salads. Olive your friends and family will love these dishes - no maturing needed.

Olive oil mashed potato

Source: Rob Palmer

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This almond meal olive-oil cake is wonderfully moist thanks to the orange, date and lemon syrup drizzled over. A beautiful blend of Mediterranean flavours.
Date, orange and olive oil cake
Source: Adam Liaw
This dish is a great example of Italian cooking philosophy. Just a few simple, good-quality ingredients (including the sneaky olive oil) can create something truly unforgettable.
Aglio e olio
Source: Ben Fogarty
A beautiful lemon and olive-oil cake that's moist, full of flavour and topped with delightful flowers and rosemary.
Garden cake
Source: Adam Liaw
Silvia Colloca loves the grassy notes that olive oil adds to mashed potatoes, and often uses a pungent Tuscan-style extra-virgin olive oil for added flavour. If you swap dairy milk for nut milk, this lovely side dish becomes vegan-friendly, too.
Olive oil mashed potato
Source: Rob Palmer
This easy granola is ready in about 20 minutes, and you can change the nuts, fruit and spices to suit whatever you have on hand.
stovetop granola
Source: Kylie Walker
Pizza rustica is like a hybrid between a pastry and a calzone, with an unleavened olive oil pastry-like dough encasing anything your heart desires. In this case, a classic spinach and ricotta filling.
Pizza rustica with olive oil pastry
Pizza rustica with olive oil pastry Source: Cook Like an Italian
NOMAD executive chef Jacqui Challinor loves this recipe because it’s a great way to showcase olive oil as an ingredient with a flavour profile in its own right rather than just a condiment for cooking.
No-churn olive oil ice-cream cake
Source: Adam Liaw
Freshly roasted capsicums blended into a sauce with toasted pine nuts, olive oil and garlic for a really fresh pasta dish.
Roast capsicum and olive oil pasta
Source: Adam Liaw
SBS Food editor Camellia Ling Aebischer plays around with focaccia.
Focaccia
Source: Camellia Aebischer
With a slow-cooked vegetable confit and tender arborio rice cooked in stock and white wine, this is a deluxe vegetarian risotto.
Vegetable confit risotto
Source: Adam Liaw

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Published 8 November 2021 11:28am
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