You may find yourself with a recipe that calls for Roasted Garlic, but doesn’t actually tell you how to prepare roasted garlic. Some folks make it in large quantities and a little over complicated. This is a super simple and easy way to create enough roasted garlic for a single recipe. Easy Roasted Garlic can be used in a recipe or you can just add it to some butter and spread it on fresh baked bread.
Typically, I say use whatever oil you have to hand or prefer. However this recipe, I do suggest that you specifically use Olive Oil. The olive oil helps the garlic retain it’s moisture, so that it doesn’t dry out during roasting. It also has a very mild flavor so that you get the most garlic flavor you can.
Roasted garlic has a buttery rich flavor that is soft and caramelized. It can add a delicious depth of flavor to lots of different types of recipes. You can add it to Roasted Tomato & White Bean Soup, maybe fold it into some fresh sourdough bread.
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Easy Roasted Garlic
Equipment
- 1 Aluminum Foil
Ingredients
- 2 Whole Heads of Garlic
- ¼ cup Olive Oil
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325degF
- Slice the top half inch of each garlic clove.
- Place the cut garlic cloves in the center of a piece of aluminum foil. Crunch up the sides of the foil to make a faux bowl.
- Drizzle the tops of the cut garlic with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Place foil packet on a baking sheet and put in oven to roast for 1 hour.
- Remove from oven and let cool about 5 minutes before using a set of tongs to squeeze the roasted garlic into a bowl. Use as directed by recipe.
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My middle son got us into the habit of making roasted garlic this summer when we he was home and now I almost always keep a jar of it in the fridge. It really is so easy to do and tastes so good!
Superb, delicious and so so incredibly tasty
Oh wow does that look good! I could just squeeze a clove right out of that picture, delish!