I really love garlic. I love it so darn much, that I'm just about out of my gourd excited about learning how to roast garlic. If you've never roasted garlic, then you have no idea about what it means to have pure joy coursing over your tongue. I finally learned how to roast garlic, and it is SO much better than the stuff you get pre-made or out of a jar.
May I share?!
How to Roast Garlic
1. preheat your oven to 400 degrees
2. peel away the outer layers of the garlic bulb skin, leaving the skins of the individual cloves intact. Using a knife, cut off 1/4 to 1/2 inch off the top of the cloves, exposing the individual cloves of garlic.
3. Place the garlic heads in a baking pan; muffin pans work well for this as well. Drizzle a couple teaspoons of olive oil over each head, using your fingers to ensure the head is well coated. Cover with foil.
4. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the cloves are soft when pressed.
5. Allow the garlic to cool slightly, and using a small knife, cut the skin around each clove. Use a cocktail fork or your fingers to pull or squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skin.
6. Spread on Italian bread, mix in mashed potatoes, stir into sour cream, add to a thick sauce, use in marinade! Basically, eat it all up!
Garlic has a lot of health benefits, and eating it raw is the best way to extract the benefits from garlic (IE: garlic sauce a la middle eastern food!) Be careful though, and never store raw garlic in oil at room temperature as it is a PRIME breeding ground for botulism. Who knew?
1 comment:
I even have a friend that takes the cloves and swallows them like a pill... to get the health benefits. She says it's not bad at all as long as you don't bite them!
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