Danish Garlic Recipes

Danish cuisine — Smørrebrød, æbleskiver, flæskesteg — elegant and hearty Nordic cuisine — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Danish 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 baking, roasting, simmering and caramelising.

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, grated cheese, butter, olive oil, fresh dill and lemon. The dishes here span danish classics ready in as little as 28 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.