In the pantry · 18 uses
olives
Salt, bitterness and fat in one small package. Rinse them if they are going into something already salty, and never buy the pitted ones if you can help it — pitting costs them their texture.
11
dishes and drinks that need it
7
more where it is worth adding
73%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Garlic turns up alongside it in about 36% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole library. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Quickest dish · 10 min
Horiatiki
Village salad. No lettuce. A slab of feta, not crumbled dust. Oregano and oil. Tomato has to be ripe or skip the dish.
Quickest drink · 3 min
Dirty martini
Olive brine in a Martini, and the amount is the argument. Start at a bar spoon; you can always add more but never take it out.
Built on it · 11
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 7
These work without it. They work better with it.