Canadian Garlic Recipes

Canadian cuisine — Poutine, butter tarts, Nanaimo bars — classic recipes from the Great White North — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Canadian 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, boiling, roasting and baking.

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, lemon, pure maple syrup, olive oil, fresh ginger and onion. The dishes here span canadian classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.