Roasted Garlic

Whenever I make roasted garlic, people just start appearing, seemingly from nowhere to find out what that smell is.  It’s actually pretty funny. Renee and I can make wagers on how long it will take someone to appear.

Every year we plant rows of garlic cloves to overwinter and shoot up early spring. It is one of the first of the plants that starts to grow. By early summer, we can see garlic scapes appearing in the rows of garlic plants. We are out collecting those delectable delicacies as soon as they appear.

I love, love, love the smell of roasted garlic.  My son has a friend whose Dad actually takes the tray of roasted garlic after it comes out of the oven and walks around the house, filling the air with the aroma of freshly roasted garlic. Yes, they are Italian.

You can use roasted garlic and spread it directly on crackers or bread, in recipes or stored for later use. Freeze whole cloves of roasted garlic by placing them on a baking sheet in the freezer until frozen. Place frozen whole cloves in a freezer safe airtight container until needed. You can also mash it then place it into ice cube trays in the freezer until frozen. Pop the frozen garlic cubes out of the trays and store in the freezer in a freezer safe airtight container. This makes it really simple to add roasted garlic to recipes all year round. We have actually freeze dried ours to crumble it into a powder to use in recipes.

You can roast as many heads of garlic as you wish with this recipe. I roasted 6 heads of garlic, but honestly, you can roast as many or as few as you like.

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Roasted Garlic
roasted garlic
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Passive Time 40 minutes
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heads of garlic
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Passive Time 40 minutes
Servings
heads of garlic
Ingredients
roasted garlic
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  1. Preheat oven to 400º
  2. Remove the outer layers of paper from the garlic, leaving just enough to hold the garlic cloves together. Cut 1/4" from the top of the head to expose the tops of each clove.
  3. Pour 2 teaspoons of olive oil in to each the heads, allowing the oil to drizzle down into the cloves.
  4. In a small baking dish, arrange the cloves, cut side up. Cover dish with aluminum foil and roast for 35 minutes. During the last 5 minutes uncover the garlic and allow to roast with the heads exposed, in order to brown the tops of the cloves.
  5. You can eat these straight out of the oven they are so good. Try them on toast, cracekrs or in your mashed potatoes. There is no end to the possibilities with roasted garlic.
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