Japanese Garlic Recipes

Japanese cooking prizes umami, seasonality and precision — clean dashi-based flavours that highlight rather than mask each ingredient. When Japanese cooks work with garlic, they reach for soy sauce, miso, mirin, dashi, ginger and sesame, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, searing 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 soy sauce, mirin, scallions, neutral oil, fresh ginger and sake. The dishes here span japanese classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.