Spanish Garlic Recipes

Spanish food is generous and social — bold smoky-sweet flavours layered over a slow-cooked sofrito base, made for sharing. When Spanish cooks work with garlic, they reach for olive oil, smoked paprika, saffron, garlic, sherry and good chorizo, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying 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 olive oil, onion, fresh parsley, sweet smoked paprika, smoked paprika and crusty bread. The dishes here span spanish classics ready in as little as 18 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.