How To Make Roasted Garlic
Mix roasted garlic into mayo, mashed potatoes, pasta sauce, top a pizza, or simply enjoy it spread on toast or crackers. So easy to make and so delicious!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
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- Whole garlic bulbs
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Sea salt ((optional))
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven 400 deg F (200C).
- 2
Gently rub the papery skins off the garlic bulbs with your fingers until you get down to the exposed cloves. Keep bulb intact.
- 3
With a sharp knife, cut off the top of the bulb to expose the garlic cloves.
- 4
Place the garlic bulb on a sheet of foil and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil.
- 5
Sprinkle lightly with sea salt (optional).
- 6
Wrap foil completely around the garlic bulb.
- 7
Place foil-wrapped bulb(s) either directly on oven rack or on a baking sheet.
- 8
Roast for 1 hour.
- 9
Remove from oven and let rest for 15 minutes without removing the foil.
- 10
Squeeze garlic from the individual cloves with your fingers or scoop out using a butter knife or small spoon.
- 11
Store any unsused roasted garlic in a sealed container in the fridge for 1 week.