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 frying, stir-frying, steaming and simmering.

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, sesame oil, scallions, light soy sauce, fresh ginger and neutral oil. The dishes here span chinese classics ready in as little as 12 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.