Mexican Garlic Recipes

Mexican cooking is layered and vibrant — toasted chillies and charred aromatics built into salsas and slow-cooked dishes of real depth. When Mexican cooks work with garlic, they reach for dried chillies, cumin, lime, coriander, garlic and tomatillos, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and roasting.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with white onion, dried oregano, ground cumin, tomatoes, onion and corn tortillas. The dishes here span mexican classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.