Colombian Garlic Recipes

Colombian cuisine — Ajiaco, bandeja paisa, arepas — hearty and vibrant Andean cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Colombian 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, frying and grilling.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, fine sea salt, ground cumin, cilantro, arepas and achiote. The dishes here span colombian classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Empanadas Colombianas is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 3,210 ratings.