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, poaching and grilling.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt, olive oil, onion, ground cumin, harissa paste and harissa. The dishes here span tunisian classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Tunisian Shakshuka is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 2,240 ratings.