I have been having some weird cravings during pregnancy and most of them are not worthy of being posted here (e.g. salad with beets and blue cheese) but this one is. I think!
Roasted Garlic
Ingredients:
1 medium garlic bulb (the whole bulb not just a clove).
2 T. olive oil
Salt to taste
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Slice about 1/4 in. off top of garlic bulb. Place it in a small baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Bake in preheated oven for 30-45 min. depending on size of bulb (until it is slightly browned and the cloves are soft). Remove from oven. When it is cool enough to touch extract each bulb by squeezing slightly. It should pop right out. If you can't wait for it to cool (I rarely can) then just use a fork to take each clove out.
Depending on what you are going to use it on you can add some salt or other spices and you can use the garlic infused olive oil as well. It should spread like softened butter!
It is amazing spread on bread or crackers or mixed into dips (like hummus), pasta sauce or on pizza crust or really it is good on anything. I hope you like it as much as I do. We are having it with a baguette and lasagna for dinner tonight!
I have also read that you can roast garlic cloves already peeled but it seems like so much work when they just slide out after roasting. But suit yourself.
Sorry there isn't a photo for this one but I forgot to take it before eating it all up.
