If your kitchen has not had the smell of roasted garlic in it, you don’t know what you are missing! The act of roasting gives the garlic a mild and almost sweet taste. It can be used in place of raw garlic in most recipes or used as a spread on a french baguette. I like to roast a couple heads of garlic at a time and freeze any that I don’t need right away. You can freeze the cloves whole or mash the cloves into a paste and freeze in small portions ( tsp or tbsp).
-Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
-Remove the excess “papery” outside of the garlic. Make sure not to take it all off, or the cloves will fall apart.
-Cut the top of the garlic off so that each clove is exposed.
-Put the garlic on foil and drizzle the top with olive oil.
-Wrap the garlic in the foil.
-Place in the oven and bake for 1 hour. To test if the garlic is done, you can squeeze the sides. If the cloves feel very soft, it is done. Also, the cloves will have a golden color to them.
Ingredients
- 3 heads of garlic
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Remove the excess "papery" outside of the garlic. Make sure not to take it all of, or the cloves will fall apart.
- Cut the top of the garlic off so that each clove is exposed.
- Put the garlic on foil and drizzle the top with olive oil.
- Wrap the garlic in the foil.
- Place in the oven and bake for approximately 1 hour. The garlic should be very soft and a golden color.
