Indonesian Garlic Recipes

Indonesian cooking is rich and aromatic, building deep spice pastes that slow-cook into coconut-laced curries and sweet-savoury grilled dishes. When Indonesian cooks work with garlic, they reach for shallots, garlic, candlenut, lemongrass, kecap manis and sambal, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, steaming and boiling.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with coconut milk, shallots, fine sea salt, onion, steamed rice and lime leaves. The dishes here span indonesian classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

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