Olive

For these baked empanadas, Gaby Melian says the addition of green olives and raisins in the filling is essential. 

Don’t toss your leftover olive brine—it’s the ticket to chicken with flavorful meat and crispy skin.

Briny, puckery, and buttery, piccata is too delicious to reserve for chicken.

Give ground chicken the respect it deserves.

This fun, citrusy cocktail snack is for olive lovers only.

The pasta cooks directly in the tomato-rich broth, which means it absorbs every bit of umami—and you have one fewer pot to wash.

Fall-off-the-bone chicken thighs are braised to perfection in a smoky tomato potlikker.

Take olives from snack to PARTY snack by coating them in panko and deep-frying them until golden brown and shatteringly crisp.

If you’ve never grilled fish before, this recipe, featuring forgiving swordfish, is the best place to start.

Here’s the answer to your question: “What can I make on Sunday night that will taste great for my 10:30 a.m. desk lunch on Wednesday?”

Here, chicken legs are gently oven-braised in puttanesca sauce until nearly falling off the bone. 

Perfect as either a side salad or a cocktail hour snack platter, you’re going to want to keep serving this mix of complementary sweet and salty and crunchy and soft bites all summer long.

An herb-laced riff on aglio e olio, quick and easy.

We love a classic Niçoise salad made with fancy oil-packed tuna, but using warm, slow-roasted salmon instead makes the whole thing feel a little more special.

Our step-by-step guide to making a three-course meal that might get you off Tinder for good.

An appetizer you can have it ready within 10 minutes of walking in the door.

This briny, bright sauce is just what you need to liven up almost any kind of fish.

Look for Castelvetrano olives for this salad recipe; their buttery flesh and mild flavor will convert the most olive-averse.

If it looks good at the market, it will be good in this salad.

We love making this take on a Niçoise salad with mâche instead of traditional frisée for a slightly more mellowed recipe.