Sunday, January 16, 2011

Roasted Garlic

Since everyone has had their fill of requesting my recipes, I will post a recipe I want to share. It is super easy. Even a bachelor could do this. 

Take one bulb of garlic to start, you don't have to have 2 like the pictures below. Make a little bowl of foil for the garlic. Before you put the bulb in the foil, try to peal off as much of the outer layer as possible without taking the garlic off (be gentle). Then place your garlic in the foil bowl like what is shown below. Cover with olive oil about 1/4 to 1/2 of the way up the bulb, but make sure you get the oil all over the top of the garlic as you pour it. Then sprinkle with a little salt about 1/4 of a tsp and sometimes a little more than that and I like to add cayenne because it gives it a nice little kick, but not too spicy. You can use black pepper if you are afraid of cayenne or it is just too spicy for you :)



Next, make your bowl into a little tent for the garlic, but don't close it up too much. See picture below. 


It is now ready to bake! I like to use my toaster oven and I set it at about 375 for 45 min to an hour. In a regular oven I would probably do 350 or 325 because it tends to burn easier in the bigger ovens I have found. Once it is baked, the shell should come off pretty easy and your garlic should be nice and tender and ever so tasty! Since I don't like to waste, I reuse my oil I baked the garlic in. It has a great garlic flavor and is less expensive than having to buy garlic oil in the stores. It goes great on salads or you could even use it to cook your eggs with or even to flavor meat you are cooking. Enjoy :)

The Classic Chef

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