Roasting garlic in the oven softens the cloves' typical pungent flavor into mellow, caramelized, slightly nutty deliciousness. Add roasted garlic to sauces, dips, soups, or simply spread it on a slice of crusty bread and enjoy.
If you have never roasted garlic in the oven, this is your sign to give it a try! The roasting process mellows the typically pungent flavor of fresh garlic into rich, savory, nutty, caramelized deliciousness. The garlic also softens as it roasts becoming spreadable and creamy. Sounds good, right?
How to Use Roasted Garlic
After roasting, squeeze the garlic cloves out and use them…
- On Pizza: Create a buttery white sauce for pizza using roasted garlic.
- In Pasta: Roasted garlic adds a lovely flavor to pasta sauce.
- On Garlic Bread: Create a delicious garlic butter for homemade garlic bread.
- In Mashed Potatoes: Add some roasted garlic to these creamy mashed potatoes– yum!
- All On Its Own: Keep it simple and spread freshly roasted garlic on some crusty bread for a snack.
Read on to learn how to roast garlic in the oven, and make sure you leave a rating and review once you’ve tried it out for yourself.
Easy Roasted Garlic
Roasting garlic in the oven softens the cloves' typical pungent flavor into mellow, caramelized, slightly nutty deliciousness. Add roasted garlic to sauces, dips, soups, or simply spread it on a slice of crusty bread and enjoy.
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Servings: 2 heads of garlic
Equipment (Shop on Amazon)
- Tin Foil
Ingredients
- 2 heads fresh garlic
- 1 tsp avocado oil or olive oil
- 2 pinches salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°F.
- Cut off the top quarter of each head of garlic. Place the two heads of garlic in a piece of tin foil with the side you cut facing upward, as seen below.
- Drizzle about ½ tsp of avocado oil (or olive oil) over the top of each head of garlic, or enough to coat the exposed garlic cloves. Then, sprinkle a pinch of salt on each.
- Roast the garlic for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until the cloves are golden and soft.
- Squeeze the cloves out of the head of garlic and add to any recipe for soup, sauce, garlic bread, etc. Alternatively, squeeze the cloves out of the garlic head and store them in an airtight container in the fridge.
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