Roasted Garlic
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Roasted Garlic transforms ordinary garlic cloves into a mellow, sweet and buttery delicacy! By roasting whole bulbs of garlic, you can get caramelized and soft garlic that enhances soups, spreads, pastas and sauces.
Garlic lovers, you’ve come to the right place! Use this roasted garlic in my recipes for Creamy Mushroom Garlic Chicken, Grilled Salmon with Lemon Garlic Butter, Garlic Parmesan Chicken and Asparagus, and Easy Garlic Mashed Potatoes.
Why This Recipe Works
A New Way to Enjoy Garlic: I know that I am not the only one out there who is nuts for garlic! I add it into pretty much everything, and it always helps to enhance the flavor. However, sometimes garlic is a bit strong! Learn how to roast garlic and use garlic in a whole new way. It will turn soft, mellow and buttery after roasting with just olive oil and salt! No more garlic breath!
Versatile: Oven roasted garlic is a versatile condiment that you can think of as garlic butter! It can be added into pasta sauces, dips, spreads, or soups. It will add a slightly garlicky flavor that is creamy instead of bitter! Once you start roasting your garlic, you won’t ever go back!
Ingredients
- Garlic Bulbs: Use two or more whole garlic bulbs for this roasted garlic recipe!
- Olive Oil: Olive oil keeps the garlic moist while it is roasting in the oven.
- Sea Salt: Add a sprinkle of sea salt for added flavor!
Here’s How to Make It
- Prep the Garlic: Slice a small amount off the top of each bulb to expose the tops of the garlic cloves. Nestle the in a square of tin foil. Drizzle a little bit of oil and sprinkle with a little salt. Seal the foil above the cloves into a little package. (photos 1-3)
- To Prepare in the Oven: Roast the garlic for 40 minutes at 325 F until the bulbs are tender. Once the foil is cook enough to touch, unwrap the bundle and squeeze the soft garlic out of their skins. (photo 4)
- To Prepare in the Air Fryer: Air fry the garlic packet for 25 minutes at 375 F.
How to Use Roasted Garlic
- Pasta: You can use this roasted garlic in all of your favorite pasta recipes like my creamy garlic shrimp pasta or butternut squash pasta sauce!
- In Butter: Make a compound butter with butter, roasted garlic, and some fresh herbs!
- Mashed Potatoes: Roasted garlic would be a wonderful addition to my easy garlic mashed potatoes!
- Dips: Blend this roasted garlic into dips and sauces like Greek hummus or Tzatziki Sauce! Or, simply blend it into some mayonnaise to create a homemade aioli.
- Soups: Roasted garlic can be blended right into creamy soups like Creamy Butternut Squash Soup, creamy mushroom soup or creamy roasted cauliflower soup!
- Sandwiches: Spread the soft garlic onto sandwiches or wraps! Try it with my pesto chicken sandwiches or chicken gyros!
Frequently Asked Questions
After you have roasted the garlic, you can allow it to cool a little bit. Then, squeeze it out of the bulb into an airtight container. You can then use it as you cook throughout the week, adding it into soups, pasta, and mashed potatoes as you go. This garlic will stay good in the refrigerator for about a week!
To freeze, mash up the garlic that you squeezed from the bulbs. You can put it into ice trays and freeze or individual portions, or put it into a freezer-safe bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
Definitely! If you prefer, you can roast individual garlic cloves instead. Make sure they are fully peeled, place them into an oven-safe ramekin, drench in olive oil and bake until soft.
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Roasted Garlic
Ingredients
- 2 garlic bulbs
- olive oil
- sea salt
Instructions
- Slice a small amount off the top of each bulb to expose the tops of the garlic cloves. Nestle them in a square of tin foil. Drizzle with a little oil and sprinkle with a little salt. Seal the foil above the cloves into a little package.
- Oven: Roast the garlic for 40 minutes at 320F until the bulbs are tender. Once the foil is cool enough to touch, unwrap the bundle and squeeze the soft garlic cloves out of their skins.
- Air Fryer: Air fry the garlic packet for 25 minutes at 375F.
Notes
- The roasted garlic will keep in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
- The roasted garlic can either be mashed into room temperature butter or mayonnaise, or blitzed into homemade mayonnaise or soft butter to for a smoother finish. It is also delicious tossed into creamy pasta sauces.
- Nutrition information varies based on how much olive oil you add.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Followed recipe exactly. My whole family LOVED it. It is a perfect amount of spread to bread ratio. Kudos!
This recipe has potential, but there are two issues:
first, it’s called “roasted garlic”artichoke bread, but there’s no mention whatsoever of roasting the garlic. it wouldn’t cook enough as the recipe is written. (I ended up sauteing it before adding it to the other ingredients, which worked well.)
second, the ratio of topping to bread is *way* too high. The recipe as written would easily do both halves of a loaf (although i’d double just the artichokes and maybe add a little more mozzarella if i were doing both halves).
Never been much of an artichoke fan – but I think you may have converted me here with this delicious bread. Just divine!