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Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step Guide to Roast Garlic in the Oven

September 21, 2019

My Roasted Garlic Recipe is not only easy to make, but the golden cloves can be easily integrated into so many wonderful dishes.  Jazz up butter by mixing in roasted garlic to create a homemade roasted garlic butter.  Kick up any alfredo sauce a couple of notches by mixing in a bulb of roasted garlic.  My personal favorite use of roasted garlic is adding it to my Award Winning Roasted Poblano Hummus Recipe.  To see the award winning recipe, click here.

Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of a white bowl with black specks with two roasted garlic heads drizzled in olive oil.

Roasted Garlic

Tip:  Rather than roasting one garlic bulb, I roast several.  I use what I need and freeze the remaining cloves for future recipes.   Once I began roasting garlic, I found myself integrating it into countless dishes.

Lets get to this Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven!

Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of a while bowl with black specks with two roasted garlic heads drizzled in olive oil.

Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven

Roasted Garlic Recipe
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 45 mins
Total Time 50 mins

Ingredients
  

  • 3 garlic heads
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400°.
  • Using a cutting board and sharp knife, slice the top off the garlic heads to expose the individual garlic cloves.
    Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of one and one-half garlic heads with exposed bulbs that are sitting on a green plate.
  • Place the garlic heads in an oven safe bowl or baking pan. The heads of the exposed garlic heads should face up.
  • Drizzle one tbsp of olive oil on each garlic. If I am feeling a bit generous, I will drizzle a little extra olive oil.
    Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of a white glass bakeware with three fresh garlic bulbs with exposed cloves drizzled in olive oil and sprinkled with salt.
  • Sprinkle one tsp of sea salt on top of the garlic heads.
  • If you are using glass bakeware, roast the garlic for 45 minutes. If you are using metal bakeware, roasting time should decrease to 30 minutes.
  • Remove the bakeware from the oven and allow the garlic to cool for five minutes before integrating into your recipe. The gorgeous golden brown garlic cloves will be delicate and soft to the touch. I hope you enjoy this Roasted Garlic Recipe!
    Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of a while bowl with black specks with two roasted garlic heads drizzled in olive oil.

Tools used for this Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven

1 cutting board

1 sharp knife

Measuring spoons

Small baking dish

 

Roasted Garlic Recipe: a Step by Step to Roast Garlic in the Oven featured by top US food blog, Food Diary of a City Girl: image of a while bowl with black specks with two roasted garlic heads drizzled in olive oil.

Roasted Garlic

I hope you enjoy this Roasted Garlic Recipe as much as I do.  Once I began roasting garlic, I found myself adding these beauties into sauces, salad dressings, hummus, and more.  The possibilities are endless.  If you love the flavors of roasted garlic, you will love my Award Winning Roasted Poblano Hummus.  Click here, to see the recipe.

In addition to garlic, I also love roasting peppers.  Roasted peppers add a beautiful dimension to salsas, vegetable dishes, and more.  To see my recipe for roasting peppers, click here.

 

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