List of garlic dishes

This is a list of garlic dishes, comprising dishes and foods that use garlic as a main ingredient. Garlic is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive,^[1] and Chinese onion.^[2] Garlic is native to Central Asia and northeastern Iran, has a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use, and has long been used as a seasoning worldwide.^[3][1] It was known to Ancient Egyptians, and has been used both as a food flavoring and as a traditional medicine.^[4]