Roasted garlic for it's sweet, mellow, creamy, nutty flavor. You can toss with pasta, or in a salad dressing, spread it on bread, add it to potatoes, garnish a roasted chicken.
Course
Appetizer
Category
Mediterranean
Prep Time10minutes
Cook Time1hour
Total Time1hour10minutes
Servings6
AutorElle
Ingredients
2large heads garlic
1/2cupextra-virgin olive oil
8-10sprigs fresh thyme
1/2teaspoonsalt
1/4teaspoonfresh black pepper
Method
Preheat oven to 425°F / 200°C.
Cut off and discard about 1 cm from tops of garlic heads, making sure that all cloves are exposed. Put garlic in a baking dish with the olive oil, thyme, salt, and pepper and cover with a double layer of aluminum foil. Crimp the edges tightly.
Roast until the garlic bulbs are golden and tender, about 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
When garlic is cool enough to handle, squeeze cloves into a bowl (the cloves will pop right out of the paper skin when squeezed - and if you are impatient like I am then use a couple forks to hold and squeeze out the flesh).
Pour the oil through a fine-mesh sieve onto garlic. Mash well with a fork and season with salt.