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, roasting and frying.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, fine sea salt, dried marjoram, tomato paste, sour cream and rye flour. The dishes here span polish classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.