How to Roast Garlic

Part of our How to Series, How to Roast Garlic is a basic guide to perfecting the art of roasting a garlic bulb. What you get each time is a perfectly roasted, soft, spreadable, delicious end result. If you love garlic as much as I do, you will love how basic and easy this guide is.

Course Appetizers, Snacks and Small Bite Recipes

Cuisine American

Keyword easy homemade recipes

Prep Time 2

Cook Time 25

Total Time 27

Servings

Calories 42kcal

Author Nicole Cook

Ingredients

1 whole garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Begin by removing the outer layers of paper skin leaving a little there to sort of hold it all together.
Next, chop the head of the garlic off. I try to waste very little but you need to get a bunch of it opened up so you can drizzle oil down in there. (You can always roast the part you cut off too, it just won't give you much and might roast a little quicker than the other pieces.
Once you have the head chopped off, place the garlic onto the center of a large piece of tinfoil. Drizzzle Olive Oil on top allowing it to seep into the head of garlic. Use your finger to smear the olive oil entirely across the top. Don't leave any garlic not oiled.
Wrap the garlic head up in the tinfoil, place it in the middle of a baking dish and roast at 400 degrees for about 25-30 minutes.
I always begin watching at the 25 minute mark because you don't want to get to the end and have crispy pieces.
Carefully remove the softened cloves - you can use a knife to slide them out but be really careful because they are super squishy.
All gone!
They should be smooth and buttery and spread, just like this.
You can use that roasted garlic for anything you want. I make compound butter with it as well as this delicious Roasted Garlic Bacon Dip.

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