Vietnamese Garlic Recipes

Vietnamese food is fresh and delicate — fragrant broths and herb-laden plates that feel light yet deeply flavoured. When Vietnamese cooks work with garlic, they reach for fish sauce, lime, fresh herbs, lemongrass, chilli and rice, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, marinating, grilling and caramelising.

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, rice vinegar, scallions, cucumber, lemongrass and soy sauce. The dishes here span vietnamese classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.