Holiday is the time to feel homeliness, togetherness, gratitude and spending your time with your family and friends. You make delicious dishes for celebrating this event with your family. One of the elements that will highlight the flavors of your dish and side dishes as well is a high quality extra virgin olive oil. Its rich, deep and tangy flavor will take the taste of your dishes to another level and your family and friends would love eating dinner. 

You can cook dips, appetizers or blends by using olive oil and serve them with your main dish. This article will guide you all about how you can use olive oil on this Thanksgiving event.

Holiday special olive oil dips:

You can include high quality extra virgin olive oil in your dinner menu by making a tasty and flavorful olive oil dish. You can serve it either as a starter or by pairing it with your main dish or bread or baked corn or mashed potatoes. Different types of olive oil dips can be made easily at home.

Herbs infused olive oil dips: 

You can make herb infused olive oil dip, which will give your holiday dinner menu a classic taste. You can use any herb according to your taste. The ingredients and directions to make this dip are given below:

Ingredients:

1. One cup of extra virgin olive oil
2. Two minced cloves of garlic
3. Two tablespoon of freshly chopped rosemary
4. Two tablespoon of freshly chopped thyme
5. One-fourth cup of vinegar
6. Salt and pepper to taste

Directions;

There is no lengthy or hard work to do for making this dip. You just simply need to mix all the ingredients in a bowl and place the bowl at a side for some time so that all the flavors mix and blend with each other very well. You can serve this dip with bread or roasted vegetables.

Citrus and olive oil dip:

If you want to go for a citrus, zesty and spicy option, citrus and olive oil dip is the best option to choose. The citrus flavor of orange or lemon zest with tangy flavor of olive oil is the best combination that goes well with your main dish or side dishes. Its ingredients ad directions to make are given below:

Ingredients:

1. One cup of extra virgin olive oil
2. One orange peeling
3. One lemon peeling
4. One tablespoon of honey
5. Freshly ground black pepper
6. Salt (to taste)

Directions:

You just need to add all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them well. You are using honey with citrus lemon and orange along with tangy olive oil. These flavors when blended together will give a complex and unique taste to your dip that you can serve with roasted nuts or vegetables.

Simple and elegant olive oil appetizers:

Appetizers are the basic and important dish that you serve to your guests on holiday dinner. You can either serve them as a starter or as a snack to your guests. You can make Italian toast with olive oil or olive oil grilled garlic toast bites as an appetizer on this holiday dinner.

Italian toast with olive oil and tomatoes:

It is such an easy and time saving snack that you can make in no time. The bread will infuse olive oil and tomato flavors and give a unique richness to your appetizer. Ingredients and directions to make this appetizer are:

Ingredients:

1. One Italian bread (sliced into one inch pieces)
2. Two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil (for dressing and bread)
3. Two cups of sliced cherry tomatoes
4. One-fourth cup of freshly chopped basil leaves
5. One-fourth cup of vinegar
6. Salt and freshly ground pepper (to taste)

Directions:

First of all heat up your oven to around 190 degrees Celsius so that heat is equally distributed in the oven. Now place the bread slices on the baking tray and spread some olive oil on it and let it bake for sometime until they become nice, crispy and golden brown. In a bowl, add sliced tomatoes, chopped basil leaves, salt and pepper, vinegar and olive oil and mix all the ingredients well.

When your bread is done, remove it from the oven and let it cool down for 10 minutes. Now take a spoon full of tomatoes and olive oil paste and put it on the bread and enjoy it with your family and friends.

Olive oil grilled garlic mini toast bites:

Here is another appetizer or snack that you can make on this holiday for your family and friends. You can make garlic mini toast bites with olive oil and soft goat cheese and honey for extra flavor and texture. Ingredients and directions for making this recipe are:

Ingredients:

1. One Italian bread sliced into one inch pieces
2. Two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
3. Half cup of soft goat cheese
4. Freshly chopped herbs for decoration (rosemary and thyme)

Directions:

Heat up your oven first at around 190 degrees for uniform heating in the oven before baking. Now spread your bread pieces on a baking tray and spread some olive oil on the top of it. Now bake your bread pieces for about 5 minutes until they are crispy, nice and golden brown. After the bread is done, take it out of the oven and let it rest for about 5–10 minutes.

Now add some soft goat cheese on each bread piece and add some honey on the top of the cheese. Decorate it by putting some chopped herbs on the top and serve it to your guests. The sweet taste of honey and tang flavor of olive oil will give a unique taste to your appetizer.

Holiday olive oil blends:

Holiday oil blends are a very way to make your holiday dinner more delicious and tasty. You can make a perfect sauce for salads, meats or desserts by blending olive oil with chilies, spices or herbs. Some oil blends that you can make on this holiday event are:

Spicy chili olive oil:

This blend is the best for those who love to have spice touch in their meals. You can make this blend easily. Take one cup of extra virgin olive oil, two tablespoons of dried chili flakes and one minced garlic clove in a cooking pan and heat them on a medium to low heat for about 5 minutes. Make sure that oil does not boil.

Now remove your pan from the burner and place it at a side so that all the flavors blend with each other. You can serve this spicy chili olive oil with your main dish or side dishes as well.

Rosemary-Lemon olive oil:

To prepare this oil blend, take one cup of olive oil, one lemon peeling and one tablespoon of freshly chopped rosemary and heat them on medium to low heat for about 5–10 minutes. Now remove your pan from the burner and let it rest for about 10 minutes so that all the flavors infuse and blend with each other. You can add this oil on the roasted potatoes, roasted vegetables or in the salads as decoration.

Holiday oil pairing:

Olive oil is such a natural food element that it compliments with many flavors. You can make various holiday dishes by using olive oil.

Olive oil and grilled vegetables:

You can grill your vegetables by using olive oil because olive oil will give a depth and richness to your vegetables. It does not matter which vegetable you are using, you can use olive oil to bake your vegetables and enhance its flavors. It will also provide you health benefits.

Olive oil and bread:

You can make your Thanksgiving snack by using extra virgin olive oil and bread. Add some olive oil on the top of your bread and add salt and pepper on the top to enhance its flavor. Now bake your bread for about 5 minutes. Here is your quick snack for the holiday.

If you are planning to host a dinner this holiday, don't forget to use our premium quality extra virgin olive oil to make your dinner menu. Using our high quality extra virgin olive oil for cooking or baking will not only enhance the flavor of your meal but also provide you various health benefits. Our extra virgin olive oil is naturally made from olives and is perfect for holiday recipes. Grab a bottle of our extra virgin olive oil and make your holiday impressive and memorable.