Sri Lankan Garlic Recipes

Sri Lankan cuisine — Fish curry, kottu roti, hoppers — fiery coconut-rich cooking from the Pearl of the Indian Ocean — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Sri Lankan 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, 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 turmeric, curry leaves, fine sea salt, coconut milk, neutral oil and cinnamon stick. The dishes here span sri lankan classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.