Thai Garlic Recipes

Thai cooking chases the balance of hot, sour, salty and sweet in every dish — fresh, aromatic and unafraid of chilli. When Thai cooks work with garlic, they reach for fish sauce, lime, lemongrass, galangal, Thai chilli and palm sugar, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, stir-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 fish sauce, jasmine rice, thai basil, fine sea salt, palm sugar and onion. The dishes here span thai classics ready in as little as 20 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Som Tum (Thai Green Papaya Salad) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,820 ratings.