Easy Roasted Garlic

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

A simple method of make fresh roasted garlic to be used in lots of different recipes.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Condiment, Garnish

Cuisine American, Italian

Servings 2 heads

Equipment

• 1 Aluminum Foil

Ingredients

  

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• 2 Whole Heads of Garlic
• ¼ cup Olive Oil
• 1 tsp salt

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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.

Keyword creamy garlic dressing, olive oil, roasted garlic

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