Chinese Garlic Recipes

Chinese cooking balances texture, heat and the harmony of flavours — fast wok work and slow braises drawn from a vast regional repertoire. When Chinese cooks work with garlic, they reach for soy sauce, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are steaming, simmering, frying and stir-frying.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, scallions, fine sea salt, steamed rice, onion and sesame oil. The dishes here span chinese classics ready in as little as 12 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Kung Pao Chicken is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 3,260 ratings.