Turkish Garlic Recipes

Turkish cooking spans smoky grilled kebabs and meze to gentle olive-oil vegetable dishes, balancing richness with yoghurt, lemon and herbs. When Turkish cooks work with garlic, they reach for olive oil, cumin, pul biber (pepper flakes), garlic, yoghurt and fresh mint, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, grilling and frying.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, olive oil, parsley, yogurt, fine sea salt and butter. The dishes here span turkish classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Turkish Red Lentil Soup – Mercimek Çorbası is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 24,300 ratings.