Filipino Garlic Recipes

Filipino cuisine — Adobo, sinigang, lechon — bold, sour and deeply savoury island cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Filipino 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 steaming.

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, soy sauce, fish sauce, ground pork, bay leaves and pork belly. The dishes here span filipino classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.