Egyptian Garlic Recipes

Egyptian cuisine — Koshari, ful medames, molokhia — ancient recipes from the Nile valley — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Egyptian 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, frying, boiling and roasting.

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, olive oil, lemon juice, onion, fine sea salt and ground coriander. The dishes here span egyptian classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.