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

Reader favourite: Koshary — Egyptian Street Food is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 4,321 ratings.