40+ Delicious Recipes You Can Make With Garlic Confit
Nov 16, 2025
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If there’s one ingredient that defines my cooking, it’s garlic confit. Slow-cooked in olive oil until the cloves turn soft, golden and buttery, garlic confit has become the heart of my kitchen and the recipe that made me the garlic girl.
There’s something magical about garlic confit and it will be your new favourite kitchen staple! It’s the foundation of so many of my Mediterranean-inspired recipes and the secret to building layers of flavour in everything I make. Here you’ll find a collection of my favourite garlic confit recipes in one place.
Garlic Confit Appetizers
Garlic confit is the secret behind the most delicious appetisers. These starters are rich, golden and full of that soft, sweet garlicky flavour everyone loves.
Creamy Garlic and Herb Dip
This creamy garlic and herb dip is rich, smooth, and bursting with flavor — the kind of dip you’ll find yourself making on repeat.
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Spicy Red Pepper (Capsicum) & Feta Dip
This bold red pepper and feta dip gets its deep flavor from fire-roasted peppers, a kick of spice, and my famous garlic confit.
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Roasted Tomatoes With Whipped Goat Cheese
This Roasted Tomato and Whipped Goat Cheese Toast is the perfect blend of sweet, jammy tomatoes, creamy garlic and lemon-spiked goat cheese, all piled onto crispy olive oil-fried sourdough.
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Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic Butter
This Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic Butter is perfect for holiday gatherings, dinner parties, or whenever you want to impress with minimal effort.
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Goats cheese stuffed olives
This could convert even the most olive hating person – maybe.
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Roasted Tomatoes With Whipped Goat Cheese
This Roasted Tomato and Whipped Goat Cheese Toast is the perfect blend of sweet, jammy tomatoes, creamy garlic and lemon-spiked goat cheese, all piled onto crispy olive oil-fried sourdough.
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Garlic Confit Pasta Dishes
Garlic confit turns any pasta dish into pure comfort, giving you a silky, mellow garlic flavour that melts into every strand.
Tomato and Garlic Confit Pasta
This simple yet flavour-packed tomato and garlic confit pasta is the ultimate weeknight comfort meal. Sweet roasted cherry tomatoes and tender garlic cloves make the perfect creamy confit sauce. This meal takes minimal hands-on prep, and is tasty enough to impress guests at a dinner party.
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Creamy garlic one pan orzo
This creamy garlic one pan orzo will be your new favourite mid week pasta meal. It comes together in under 15 minutes and is all made in the one pan!
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Creamy Garlic Butter Pasta
Discover a simple yet delicious creamy garlic butter pasta recipe perfect for easy weeknight dinners. Quick to make and full of flavour.
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Garlic Butter Prawn Pasta
Whip up a quick and tasty garlic butter prawn pasta for your next weeknight dinner. Enjoy a flavorful meal in under 20 minutes!
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Roasted tomato and goats cheese pasta
Another weeknight pasta meal for fussy eaters and busy weeks!
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Garlic Confit Condiments
These garlic confit sauces and condiments are full of a mellow garlicky flavour and will elevate any meal!
Cowboy Butter
Cowboy Butter is the ultimate steak sauce—rich, buttery, and loaded with garlic, herbs, lemon, and a little mustard kick.
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Olive Oil Mayonnaise with Chilli, Garlic & Lime
This olive oil mayonnaise with chilli, garlic and lime is rich, zesty and packed with bold Mediterranean flavour
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Garlic Confit with Meat Recipes
When I am cooking meat, I always reach for my garlic confit. It adds a deep, mellow flavour that transforms everything from slow braises to quick weeknight grills.
Creamy Garlic Parmesan Chicken
If you’re looking for a comforting dinner that’s bursting with flavour but still easy enough for a busy weeknight, this creamy garlic parmesan chicken is it
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Oven Baked Crispy Chiken Wings with Lemon & Garlic Sauce
These chicken wings are baked in the oven until golden and crispy and then tossed through a lemon, honey and garlic butter sauce. This is chicken wing perfection!
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Chicken Breast In Creamy Mushroom sauce
This Chicken Breast In Creamy Mushroom Sauce features tender, perfectly seared chicken breasts bathed in a luxuriously rich and velvety garlic-infused mushroom sauce.
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Garlic confit chicken wings
It's a game day snack or something to bring along to a barbeque – but we are leveling up to garlic confit chicken wings.
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Garlic Confit Butter Steak
This is the perfect steak topped with a garlic confit herb butter.
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Garlic Confit with Seafood
Garlic confit is the perfect match for seafood, giving every dish a soft, mellow garlic flavour without overpowering it.
Honey garlic butter salmon
This dish will be ready in under 10 minutes and will have you making salmon like a professional chef.
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Crispy fried calamari
This crispy fried calamari recipe is crunchy and golden on the outside while tender and soft on the inside.
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Grilled scallops with garlic butter
These grilled scallops with garlic butter do not disappoint on flavour, especially when using larger sea scallops!
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Garlic Confit & Potatoes
Garlic confit and potatoes are a match made in heaven! I have used garlic confit to make every type of potato dish you can imagine!
Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes
Olive oil mashed potatoes silky, fluffy, and every bit as comforting but they're made with extra virgin olive oil.
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Garlic butter hasselback potatoes
These garlic butter hasselback potatoes are an enhanced version of traditional baked potatoes, offering a crispy outside and a soft, tender inside
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Garlic butter and cream cheese baked potato
Discover how to make delicious garlic and cream cheese baked potatoes that are easy to prepare and sure to impress.
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Garlic butter jacket potatoes
It's a comfort food for a reason – it really does warm you up from the inside! That's why I love making my garlic butter jacket potatoes with Westgold Butter for that extra comfort.
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Garlic Confit Crispy Roasted Potatoes
Say hello to your new favourite potato recipe.They are golden, crispy, doused in garlic confit olive oil and finished off with cheese, rosemary and salt. This is truly potato heaven!
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Potato Tart with Garlic Confit & Sour Cream Puff Pastry
Just when you thought puff pastry couldn’t get any better, I introduce to you garlic confit puff pastry.
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Potato Rosti
The potato rosti is golden and crunchy on the outside and can be made for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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Garlic Confit Salads
Garlic confit can also be used to create the most delicious salad dressings (or simply be tossed through a salad).
Cucumber Salad with Greek Yogurt
This cucumber salad with Greek yogurt is creamy, refreshing and the perfect side dish for just about any meal.
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Rainbow Antipasto Pasta Salad
This vibrant Mediterranean rainbow antipasto pasta salad is bursting with colorful veggies, olives, feta, and salami tossed with an amazing garlic confit dressing. Whether you serve it as a side dish or a main course, it’s perfect for a Christmas feast, barbeque, or a weeknight dinner.
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Mediterranean Tomato Confit Pasta Salad
This Mediterranean cherry tomato confit pasta salad is my go-to summer dish when tomatoes are sweet, juicy, and overflowing in my kitchen.
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Peach Salad with Garlic Confit Balsamic Dressing
Say hello to the perfect summer salad. It's bursting with savoury and sweet flavours and has the most delicious garlic confit and balsamic glaze dressing.
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Garlic Confit with Vegetables
Garlic confit brings a soft, mellow richness to any vegetable, turning even the simplest side dish into something memorable.
Garlic butter mushrooms
These garlic mushrooms are oven roasted until golden brown and caramelised.
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Garlic Maple Roasted Carrots
Savor the perfect blend of garlic, butter, and maple in these delicious carrots. A simple yet flavorful side dish for any meal.
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Spanakopita: A Greek Spinach Pie Delight
Spanakopita, directly translated as "spinach pie," is a beloved Greek dish known for its flaky filo layers and savoury spinach filling. It captures the essence of Greek cuisine, bringing a piece of Greece to your kitchen.
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Steamed Artichokes with Garlic Butter
These tender steamed artichokes are paired with an easy garlic confit butter that makes the perfect dipping sauce. This elegant appetiser is simple to prepare, yet packed with wonderful flavors that will make it a hit at any dinner.
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