Portuguese Garlic Recipes

Portuguese food is Atlantic and rustic — generous with garlic, fresh herbs and chilli, and famous for its love of bacalhau and grilled fish. When Portuguese cooks work with garlic, they reach for olive oil, garlic, bay, piri-piri, coriander and plenty of seafood, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and marinating.

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, chopped parsley, onion, bay leaves, sweet paprika and onions. The dishes here span portuguese classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.