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113 recipes with garlic for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

113 recipes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

Mapo tofu is the definitive Sichuan dish — cubes of silken tofu suspended in a glossy scarlet sauce of fermented chili bean paste and black beans, studded with crisp bits of pork and finished with freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn. The result is má là: the tingling numbness of the peppercorn against the burn of chili. Soft, fiery, and deeply savoury, it's built in minutes and eaten straight over steaming rice.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Galbi-jjim (Korean Braised Short Ribs)

Galbi-jjim is Korea's celebration dish — beef short ribs braised low and slow in a dark, glossy soy sauce until the meat slides from the bone. Grated Korean pear tenderizes the beef and lends a clean sweetness that balances the salt, while radish, carrot, shiitake, chestnuts, and jujubes soak up the sauce alongside it. Served at holidays and family gatherings, it's the kind of dish that fills a house with its smell for hours.

150 min620 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Imam Bayildi (Turkish Stuffed Eggplant in Olive Oil)

🇹🇷TurkeyAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Imam Bayildi (Turkish Stuffed Eggplant in Olive Oil)

Imam bayildi means 'the imam fainted' — from delight, or from the sight of how much olive oil went in, depending on which legend you follow. Whole eggplants are softened until collapsing, split open, and packed with slow-cooked onion, tomato, and a startling amount of garlic, then braised in olive oil until everything melts together. It belongs to the zeytinyagli family, dishes cooked in olive oil and eaten cool, and it's better the next day.

90 min310 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

🇦🇷ArgentinaEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Provoleta (Argentine Grilled Provolone)

Provoleta is what opens an Argentine asado: a thick disc of provolone seared in a small cast iron pan until the outside forms a golden crust and the middle turns molten. Dried oregano and chili flakes go on before it hits the heat, and chimichurri goes over the top after. There's nothing complicated about it — the whole art is in getting a crust to form before the cheese collapses, and eating it straight from the pan with torn bread.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick💪High protein

Satsivi (Georgian Chicken in Walnut Sauce)

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Satsivi (Georgian Chicken in Walnut Sauce)

Satsivi takes its name from the Georgian word for cold, and that's how it's meant to be eaten — poached poultry buried in a thick, pale walnut sauce that sets as it chills. Ground walnuts, softened onion, and garlic are loosened with the poaching broth and spiced with blue fenugreek, marigold saffron, coriander, and clove. It's a fixture of the Georgian New Year table, made a day ahead so the flavours settle and the sauce thickens.

120 min590 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Cabbage Boil (Whole Baked Cabbage with Spiced Butter)

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Cabbage Boil (Whole Baked Cabbage with Spiced Butter)

A whole head of cabbage, cored, packed with garlic and cajun butter, and baked until a knife slides through the middle without resistance. The outer leaves darken and crisp while the centre steams in its own moisture and the butter runs down through the layers. It costs almost nothing, takes one head and one pan, and turns a vegetable most people boil into submission into something worth putting in the middle of the table.

110 min210 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry

The dumpling bake is a modern American shortcut that earned its reputation honestly: a coconut and red curry sauce whisked straight into the baking dish, a bag of frozen dumplings set into it, foil on top, and half an hour later a pan of tender dumplings sitting in a silky, spoonable broth. Nothing is fried, nothing is folded, and the dumplings absorb the curry as they steam. Finished with chili crisp and coriander, it tastes far more deliberate than the effort it takes.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice)

Arroz de marisco is the Portuguese rice cooked in a stock drawn from prawn heads and shells, with clams and mussels opening in the pot. The rice goes in unwashed and the dish is served loose and brothy — malandrinho, never dry like a paella.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese Salt Cod with Eggs and Potatoes)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese Salt Cod with Eggs and Potatoes)

Bacalhau à Brás is the Lisbon dish of salt cod, matchstick potatoes and eggs. The cod is soaked and pulled into threads, the potatoes go in at the last moment, and the eggs work as a binder — creamy rather than scrambled.

40 min560 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bifana (Portuguese Pork Sandwich)

The bifana is the Portuguese sandwich of thin pork cutlets marinated in white wine with garlic, paprika and bay. The meat is fried, simmered in its own marinade and packed into a crusty roll with the sauce spooned over and a smear of mustard.

40 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Caldo Verde (Portuguese Greens and Chouriço Soup)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Soups

Caldo Verde (Portuguese Greens and Chouriço Soup)

Caldo verde is the Portuguese potato soup carrying threads of finely shredded greens and rounds of chouriço. The base is blended completely smooth, the greens are cut one or two millimetres wide and cooked for five minutes at the end so they stay green.

45 min260 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Frango Piri-Piri (Portuguese Grilled Chicken)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Meat Dishes

Frango Piri-Piri (Portuguese Grilled Chicken)

Frango piri-piri is spatchcocked chicken grilled under a marinade of hot chillies, garlic and smoked paprika. The bird is cut along the backbone and pressed flat, marinated for at least four hours, and glazed at the end with the portion of marinade that was boiled first.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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