Tunisian Garlic Recipes

Tunisian cuisine — Brik, shakshuka, harissa — bold, spiced Maghrebi cooking from North Africa — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Tunisian 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, grilling 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, fine sea salt, ground cumin, harissa paste, onion and eggs. The dishes here span tunisian classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.