Have you ever tried freshly roasted garlic? If you are sensitive to raw garlic, you may find that you can much more easily eat roasted garlic so I’m going show you how to roast garlic! There are many ways to add roasted garlic to dishes, in fact, you can even spread it right on toast and eat it as is.
Add your roasted garlic to mashed potatoes, veggies or pasta. Roasting garlic is not a necessity when it comes to creating recipes but it adds a flavour that you cannot achieve with raw garlic. I’m going to be adding roasted garlic to my loaded hummus recipe coming up tomorrow. It’s incredibly delicious!
I enjoy eating garlic for many reasons, mostly taste but also because it contains many health benefits. Garlic is high on the medicinal list with few calories and contains nutrients such as Manganese, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Selenium, Fibre and much, much more.
Garlic can combat sickness, like the common cold and can reduce blood pressure. But before you start adding garlic to all of your dishes, don’t forget it sticks to your breath! Did you know that rubbing your hands on stainless steel can get rid of the garlic smell? Next time you work with garlic, give this a go! Scroll below for a full list of instructions on how to roast garlic and get creative with how you add it to your dish.
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How To Roast Garlic
Ingredients
- 1–6 cloves of garlic
- 1–2 tsp of olive oil per clove
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°F
- Peel and discard the papery outer layers of the whole garlic bulb, leaving intact the skins of the individual cloves of garlic.
- Using a sharp knife, cut 1/4 to a 1/2 inch from the top of cloves, exposing the individual cloves of garlic.
- Put garlic in baking pan or muffin tin: Place the garlic heads in a baking pan, cut side up. (A muffin pan works great for this, as it keeps the garlic bulbs from rolling around.)
- Drizzle with olive oil: Drizzle a couple teaspoons of olive oil over each exposed head, using your fingers to rub the olive oil over all the cut, exposed garlic cloves.
- Cover the bulb with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 400°F for 30-40 minutes, or until the cloves are lightly browned and feel soft when pressed.
- Cool and remove roasted garlic cloves from their skins
