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Roasted Garlic : How To Make & Top Five Ways To Use Them

Oven Roasted Garlic are such an amazing way to use garlic. You can use them in so many ways and they add such deliciousness to every dish you use them in!

I love roasted garlic. If you think garlic makes food tasty, then roasted garlic makes them positively orgasmic and it’s so simple to roast a garlic. Once you start doing it, you will wonder why didn’t you do it before and as an added benefit, your home will be enveloped in an aroma that is so heady.

oven roasted garlic

 

So what do we need to roast a garlic : a knife, some aluminium foil, some olive oil, an oven and obviously the garlic. And after you have everything in place, its as simple as 123.

1. Peel all the external papery layers from garlic.

2. Chop off the top 1/2 inch and pour some olive oil in the gaps between the pods

3. Wrap in an aluminium foil and bake at 180C for 40-55 minutes.

That’s it, your roasted garlic is ready and what more it stays fine in the fridge for 2 weeks and you can freeze it for upto 3 months. You can even roast it along side of an savory bake like pie or a casserole. Just follow the steps, wrap it and then place it in the oven along side the main dish and a little temperature difference won’t make much of a difference to your garlic as will the little difference in time you bake do. I have roasted a garlic from 30 mins to 90 mins, the only difference between the softness of the garlic. At 30 minutes you will get a little roasted firm pods where at 90 mins you will have a fully cooked soft spreadable garlic pod.

So now that we have the roasted garlic ready, the next question is what do we use it for. Many things actually, whatever you fancy but here are the top five things I like to use them as:

Spread on Breakfast Toast : A crisp toasted bread and lightly spread roasted garlic alongside a helping of scrambled eggs. There can’t be a better way to start the day. I can eat this everyday of my life without getting bored with it.

Use in Soups & Sauces : Anywhere the recipe asks for garlic in a soup or a sauce, replace it with roasted garlic and see how the dish gets transported to a totally different level. I have completely stopped using raw garlic in soups now.

Elevate your Dips with it : Add it to the mayo or the pesto, or the hummus or the salsa or even the mustard sauce. You get the drift…it elevates every dip to a finger licking delicious one.

Add it to Mashed Potatoes : Creamy Mashed potatoes is one of those simple bland dishes that most people love but find hard to make, next time you make them add some roasted garlic to it and I assure you will never have them again without it.

Add to Salad Dressings : Another excellent and extensive use for roasted garlic in my house is the salad dressings. Roasted garlic is perfectly mushy to be blended into a salad dressing as a paste and it adds quite a punch of flavour as well.

So what are you waiting for, buy the next batch of garlic and put it in the oven!!!

 

oven roasted garlic

Another kitchen hack that I wrote about was how to freeze green peas? Have you seen that post yet? 

Roasted Garlic : How to make & top 5 ways to use it

If you think garlic makes thing tasty then roasted garlic makes them positively orgasmic. Here is how to roast garlic and top 5 ways to use roasted garlic!
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 55 minutes mins
Course condiments
Cuisine American
Servings 3 portion

Ingredients
  

  • 3 garlic heads
  • 6 tsps olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Peel all the external papery layers from garlic.
  • Chop off the top 1/2 inch and pour some olive oil in the gaps between the pods
  • Wrap in an aluminium foil and bake at 180C for 40-55 minutes.

Notes

If you make this and use the garlic in any unique way , share a picture with me on twitter, instagram or Facebook? I would love to hear what you have to say about it !
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Comments

  1. nandita says

    January 4, 2016 at 9:36 am

    Nice post!I love roasted garlic but don’t do it often enough 😉

    Reply
  2. sinamontales says

    January 4, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Thanks Nandita. This is one thing I almost always have in the fridge 🙂

    Reply
  3. Uma “Masterchefmom” Raghuraman says

    January 8, 2016 at 7:40 am

    I adore garlic and am going to try this out soon. Roasting along side other bakes is such a useful tip. Thanks for this recipe.

    Reply
  4. sinamontales says

    January 8, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Thank you so much Uma, glad to be of help 🙂

    Reply

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Monika is an ex-IT person turned into a food blogger, consultant, home baker and an amateur food photographer. She loves music, writing, food, and travel, but not necessarily in that order ;)

Sin-A-Mon Tales is a canvas for her food memories. Apart from Sin -A- Mon Tales, Monika also writes for many online websites and publications. She's an avid reader and can always be found with a book in her bag, which mostly is as bright as her. She's an obsessive traveler and is always looking for the next food story. Read More…

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