Ingredient

Garlic

Garlic is a wholesome ingredient featured in 54 Nourilo recipes — most often in home-style dishes, soups and herbal & flower teas. It is traditionally enjoyed as part of a balanced diet.

Often used in recipes for

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Recipes with Garlic

Soups

Hairy Gourd, Garlic & Loach Soup

Traditionally used to support liver health

⏱ 1 hr about 4 bowls

Home-Style Dishes

Onion & Tomato Braised Beef Shin

Traditionally strengthens the spleen and stirs the appetite

⏱ 30 min 2–3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Garlic Lemongrass Chicken Claypot

A fragrant, appetizing festive main dish

⏱ 1 hr 30 min 1 claypot (3–4 servings)

Home-Style Dishes

Braised Bitter Melon with Roast Pork Belly

Traditionally enjoyed to clear summer heat and support healthy blood pressure

⏱ 40 min 2–3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Shrimp and Herb Mashed-Potato Balls

A savory, satisfying afternoon-tea bite

⏱ 40 min 1 plate (about 3–4 servings)

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Snow Peas with Chicken Slices

A light home-style dish, gentle on a recovering appetite

⏱ 25 min 1 plate (2–3 servings)

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Broccoli with Lily Buds and Wood Ear

A vegetable-forward family dish traditionally favored for healthy eating

⏱ 25 min 2–3 servings (a family side dish)

Soups

Pumpkin and Frog Soup

Traditionally used to supplement qi and yin for those managing diabetes

⏱ 1 hr 15 min About 4 bowls

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Fava Beans with Beef

Traditionally associated with supporting memory and brain health in older adults

⏱ 30 min 2-3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Shredded Eel (Chao Shan Hu)

Traditionally associated with tonifying deficiency, strengthening sinews and bones

⏱ 30 min 2-3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Pan-Fried Hairtail (Belt Fish)

Traditionally associated with supporting smooth skin and memory

⏱ 30 min 2-3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Sea Snails with Fermented Black Beans and Chili

A savory home-style dish traditionally said to nourish yin and moisten dryness

⏱ 25 min 2–3 servings

Soups

Garlic, Wild Amaranth and Lean Pork Soup

A savory family soup traditionally used to support gut health during enterovirus season

⏱ 30 min 3–4 bowls

Home-Style Dishes

Home-Style Sea Cucumber

Traditionally nourishes yin and supports the kidneys

⏱ 40 min 2–3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Garlic-Dressed Cold Cucumber

A clean, garlicky cold dish traditionally enjoyed for its antibacterial garlic and vinegar

⏱ 20 min 2 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Tri-Color Pepper Beef Stir-Fry

Traditionally warms the middle and is associated with supporting a weak appetite

⏱ 30 min 2 servings

Herbal & Flower Teas

Ginger & Garlic Decoction

traditionally used to warm the stomach, dispel wind-cold, and support the body during cold-type flu

⏱ 20 min 1–1.5 bowls (1 serving)

Home-Style Dishes

Three-Color Sweet Pepper Stir-Fried Chicken

Traditionally associated with warming the middle and stimulating the appetite

⏱ 35 min 2 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Sweet Pepper, Pickled Mustard and Eel Stir-fry

traditionally associated with strengthening the spleen, stimulating appetite, and nourishing blood

⏱ 30 min 2 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Celery, Shiitake Mushroom and Prawn Ball Stir-Fry

a nourishing everyday stir-fry traditionally associated with supporting tendons, bones and liver-kidney health

⏱ 35 min 2–3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Garlic and Fermented Black Bean Braised Mustard Greens with Pork Ribs

traditionally used to warm the middle, ease cold-type cough and phlegm, and support spleen function

⏱ 35 min 2–3 servings

Herbal & Flower Teas

Garlic Rice-Vinegar Infusion

traditionally used to support skin comfort in hive-prone individuals

1 bottle (ongoing daily servings)

Home-Style Dishes

Steamed White Eel with Black Bean Sauce

Traditionally used to nourish deficiency, clear mild internal heat and support constitutional fatigue

⏱ 23 min 2–3 servings

Home-Style Dishes

Stir-Fried Cuttlefish with Green Onion, Pepper & Pickled Mustard

Traditionally nourishing for blood and yin; a colorful, everyday family dish

⏱ 30 min 2–3 servings

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