Lebanese Garlic Recipes

Lebanese food is fresh, herb-forward and built around the table of meze — bright with lemon, garlic and good olive oil. When Lebanese cooks work with garlic, they reach for olive oil, lemon, garlic, tahini, sumac and za'atar, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and grilling.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with olive oil, ground cumin, lemon juice, ground allspice, fresh lemon juice and tahini. The dishes here span lebanese classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.