Recipe For Roasted Garlic

Roasted garlic is one of the best things you can make in your oven. We’re sharing how to roast garlic and lots of ways to use it. Jump to the Roasted Garlic Recipe

Roasted garlic is creamy, sweet and spreadable. It’s practically dreamy. We love eating the cloves whole alongside dinner — this roasted chicken being one of our favorites. You can also mash it into butter and spread on toast or add to soups and sauces. Mashing some into mashed potatoes is also an absolute must.

We’re on a garlic kick lately, have you seen our easy fried garlic or this garlicky olive oil dip? It’s comes together quickly and it never fails. I mean, who doesn’t want to dip bread into an herby, garlicky, parmesan cheese infused olive oil?

Roasting garlic is seriously easy. You can turn the oven on just to roast garlic or throw in a batch next to something else that needs a hot oven.

We stick around 400 degrees F, but if you have something baking in the oven at a lower temperature, don’t worry the garlic will still roast nicely.

In a 400° F oven, you are looking at 40 to 70 minutes for the garlic to turn caramelized, soft and spreadable. If you are using a cooler oven, it may take a few more minutes.

To prevent the garlic from drying out, roast it in little packets with a little salt, pepper and olive oil. In our photos, we’ve used parchment paper and kitchen twine to make the packets, but foil works too.

When we have some in the kitchen, we’ll add a bed of fresh thyme. This way, as the garlic roasts it’s infused by the thyme. The kitchen smells incredible!

Roasted garlic can be refrigerated for a few days or to extend their shelf life, remove the roasted garlic cloves, add them to a clean food storage container and then cover with olive oil. Store the garlic and olive oil in the refrigerator up to two weeks (the oil can also be used).

You can also freeze roasted garlic — either as whole cloves, mashed up into a puree or covered in olive oil. The frozen garlic should last up to three months.

Easy Oven Roasted Garlic

Eat roasted garlic straight out of the cloves or spread onto warm bread. Mashing some into butter, sauces and creamy dips is also an excellent idea. You can use foil or parchment paper to roast garlic. If using parchment, you will need to secure the packets with kitchen twine.

Prep: 5min

Total: 50min

Yield: 3 whole heads garlic

Serving Size: 1 whole head garlic

Nutrition Facts: servingSize 1 whole head garlic, calories 93, Protein 2 g, Carbohydrate 12 g, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 0 g, Fat 5 g, Saturated Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Sodium 161 mg

Ingredients:

• 3 whole heads garlic
• 3 sprigs fresh thyme, optional
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Salt and fresh ground black pepper

Instruction:

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Prepare three squares of parchment paper or foil large enough to wrap each head of garlic.
3. If the garlic has extra layers of papery white skin, peel them away, but leave enough layers so the head of garlic stays together. Cut a 1/4-inch from the top of the cloves so that you can see inside the individual cloves of garlic.
4. For each head of garlic, place down a sheet of parchment or foil onto a work bench. Make a small bed of thyme by shaping it into a small ring. Then place a head of garlic, cut-side-up, on top. Drizzle with olive oil and season with some salt and fresh ground black pepper.
5. Pull the sides of the parchment paper or foil up and around the garlic so that you make a little parcel. If using parchment, secure with kitchen twine.
6. Place packets of garlic onto a baking sheet. Bake until the cloves inside the packet are light brown and soft, 40 to 70 minutes. Check on the garlic every so often to see how it is progressing.

Roasted Garlic

Learn how to roast garlic! It will add rich, nutty flavor to mashed potatoes, soups, and more. Find specific serving suggestions in the post above.

Prep: 5min

Ingredients:

• 1 whole garlic bulb
• Extra virgin olive oil (for drizzling)
• Sea salt

Instruction:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Trim the top ¼ inch off the top of the garlic bulb.
3. Place the garlic cut-side up on a piece of foil, drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. Tip: I like to use a small baking dish or ramekin to help the garlic sit cut-side up.
4. Wrap the garlic in the foil and roast for 40 to 60 minutes or until the cloves are deeply golden brown and tender.
5. Use in any recipe (like mashed potatoes or cauliflower mashed potatoes) that calls for roasted garlic. It also freezes well.

Roasted Garlic Recipe (How To Roast Garlic)

Learn how to roast garlic in the oven, the easy way! This oven roasted garlic recipe makes perfectly creamy, caramelized garlic cloves.

Prep: 5min

Total: 35min

Yield: 32

Serving Size: 1 serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 25 kcal, Carbohydrate 2.3 g, Protein 0.5 g, Fat 1.7 g, Saturated Fat 0.2 g, Trans Fat 0.1 g, Cholesterol 0.1 mg, Sodium 37.6 mg, Fiber 0.2 g, Sugar 0.1 g, unSaturated Fat 1.4 g, servingSize 1 serving

Ingredients:

• 8 heads Garlic
• 1/2 tsp Sea salt
• 1/4 tsp Black pepper
• 1/4 cup Olive oil

Instruction:

1. Preheat the oven at 400 degrees F (204 degrees C) .
2. Peel and discard the outer layers of the whole garlic bulbs. Cut about 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.3 cm) off the top of each head of garlic, exposing the cloves inside.
3. Line a baking dish with a large piece of foil. Place the garlic heads onto the foil, cut side up.
4. Sprinkle each head of garlic with salt and pepper. Drizzle 1-2 teaspoons of oil over each, making sure it runs between the cloves.
5. Close the foil around the garlic and seal. Roast garlic in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
6. Let the garlic cool from hot to warm. To remove the roasted garlic from the heads, squeeze from the root end into a bowl.

How to Roast Garlic with Frankie Celenza