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 marinating.

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