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 simmering, baking, roasting 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 fine sea salt, onion, rye bread, rye, dill and citrus juice or vinegar. The dishes here span danish classics ready in as little as 28 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Danish Golden Charred Pepper Breakfast Plate is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.8★ from 12,322 ratings.