Ghanaian Garlic Recipes

Ghanaian cuisine — Groundnut soup, kelewele, jollof — vibrant and richly spiced West African cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Ghanaian 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 marinating.

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, tomato paste, onion, tomatoes, scotch bonnet pepper and scotch bonnet peppers. The dishes here span ghanaian classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.