Polish Garlic Recipes

Polish cuisine — Bigos, pierogi, żurek — hearty, warming Central European comfort food — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Polish 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, boiling, frying and sautéing.

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, onion, rye bread, dill, citrus juice or vinegar and dried marjoram. The dishes here span polish classics ready in as little as 32 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Polish Harbor Charred Pepper Noodles is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.8★ from 11,307 ratings.