The Ricco Kitchen

Roasting garlic is simple and yields one of the most savory and delicious ingredients for other recipes, such as potato leak soup, roast garlic mayonnaise, garlic bread, etc.

Roasted garlic has a much mellower flavor as most of the pungency is roasted away. It is also transformed into a butter-like paste. You just squirt it out of the paper!

This takes about an hour, and it’s well worth the wait! mmmm garlic…I’m an addict.

Ingredients:

• Whole bulb of garlic
• Olive Oil
• Salt
• Pepper
• Foil (don’t eat this, please )

Preheat the oven to bake at 400ºF.

Alright, you need a sharp knife. If your knife is dull, even a little bit, TAKE THE TIME TO SHARPEN IT! Alright, take your garlic bulb, rotate it on its side, and cut it ALMOST in half. You want to be able to open it all the way, but have a sort of paper hinge.

Baste on some olive oil to cover the exposed garlic. Season with salt and pepper.

Close the bulb back up and wrap it up in foil.

Place it in the heated oven for 1 hour.

Take it out, unwrap the foil (careful, it is hot).

Once it has cooled, you can just squirt out the garlic…it’s that easy!

mmmm Roasted Garlic…