Learn How to Roast Garlic so that you can use it in a variety of recipes. Once it's roasted, garlic has a delicious creamy, sweet and mellow flavor unlike when it's raw, and can greatly increase the flavor profile in pasta, breads, salads, and more!
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Ingredients
1head of garliccan use more
2 teaspoonsolive oil
aluminum foil
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400 °F.
To roast a whole head of garlic, peel off the outer skin, leaving the skin on the individual cloves. Cut 1/4 to 1/2-inch off the tops off of the cloves with a sharp knife so that you can see the individual cloves.
Place the head of garlic on a square piece of tinfoil and drizzle with olive oil. With clean fingers, massage the olive oil into the tops of the garlic cloves.
Wrap aluminum foil around the head of garlic so that it is completely encased. You can either wrap them all in one pice of foil or individually. Place the wrapped head(s) of garlic on a baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until cloves are tender when lightly squeezed. Set aside to cool enough to be handled.
To remove the individual cloves, I find that it easiest to squeeze each one at the bottom, so that it kind of pops out of the skin.
Notes
Of course, you can roast more than one head of garlic at a time. For nutritional purposes, we only calculated the information using one head of garlic and 2 teaspoons of olive oil, though you may not need that much.