Austrian Garlic Recipes

Austrian cuisine — Wiener schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Kaiserschmarrn — refined Central European cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Austrian cooks work with garlic, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, braising, caramelising and roasting.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt, onion, sweet hungarian paprika, tomato paste, caraway seeds and butter. The dishes here span austrian classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.