Carrageenan Free Garlic Parsley Herb Oil
This herb oil is the kind of condiment that quietly transforms everything it touches — drizzled over roasted vegetables, spooned onto crusty bread, or used as a finishing oil for pasta or grilled fish. The process is slow and intentional: garlic slices are coaxed in olive oil over the gentlest heat until they turn soft and barely golden, releasing their flavor without any bitterness. Fresh flat-leaf parsley and a couple of thyme sprigs then steep in the warm oil off the heat, turning the whole thing a gorgeous, fragrant green. Straining out the solids leaves you with a silky, clean oil that carries all that herby, garlicky depth in every drop. For anyone navigating ingredient labels carefully, this recipe is refreshingly straightforward — just whole, recognizable ingredients with nothing processed or packaged that might sneak in unwanted additives. Many flavored oils and condiments on store shelves rely on stabilizers or emulsifiers that can be hard to track down on a label, so making your own at home puts you fully in control. A pinch of sea salt at the end is all it needs to pull everything together. Store it in a glass jar in the fridge and you'll find yourself reaching for it constantly over the next few days.
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8 servings
- ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- ½ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves and tender stems, loosely packed
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme (optional)
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Combine the olive oil and sliced garlic in a small saucepan over the lowest possible heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the garlic is softened and just barely golden at the edges, about 10–12 minutes. Watch closely — the garlic can brown quickly and will turn bitter if it darkens past pale gold.
- 2
Add the parsley and thyme sprigs, if using, to the warm oil. Stir to submerge the herbs, then remove the pan from the heat. Let the herbs steep in the residual heat for 5 minutes, until the parsley is wilted and the oil is fragrant.
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