On Tuesday I made another try. I found myself eating a whole head of garlic! Yes, a whole head!:) But before you judge me and run away, consider this - it was a delicious way of getting better!
Oven baked garlic, my friends, has a wonderful scent.
Oven baked garlic
(from "Küüslauguraamat", serves 4)
4 heads of garlic
olive oil
salt
(dried herbs to your liking)
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Without peeling them, cut the garlic heads into two and place on the baking sheet (the cut side up)
- Drizzle the garlic with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Add any herbs you want.
- Bake at 200C for 20 minutes
It's best to eat the garlic while it's still warm. This way the cloves are quite mushy and are easy to mash with a knife, but they get firmer as they cool. Just slip the cloves out of their peels and serve over crispy bread. Or go fancy and add them to a salad or serve beside a meat dish. I plan to make a cream cheese spread with them soon, I'm sure of that. So what your fingers get a bit oily - lick them clean! The oil's flavoured with the delicious deep flavour of the garlic. The taste is mainly 'roasted', but there's a 'healthy' moment in the mouth too. It's all mushy. It's good.
I'd already made the recipe when I discovered the event Think spice...garlic hosted by Sunita. What a timing! This is my contribution - as garlicky as it gets:)
11 comments:
A whole head of garlic? I have to try that one day. I can imagine the heady aroma of the roasted garlic served over buttered baguette. Yum! BTW, I love garlic, and certainly don't mind to eat LOTS of it. :)
Gorgeous looking garlic! I love the idea of making a cream cheese spread with roasted garlic, yummy! I wish I'd had a recipe like this during my last pregnancy, the only things I craved were garlic and onions :)
It surely doesn't get any more garlicky than this...I adore the smell of roasted garlic...thanks for sending it over.
mandy, a buttered baguette sounds heavenly! Or, for me, a rye bread toast:)
lyb, you lucky woman! just think if the only thing you craved had been chocolate or bread;)
sunita, I'm sure that by the end of this month you'll feel more garlicky than this:)
I know how you feel; I'm sick all of the time.
So my question is, did it work?
I would have no problem eating a head of roasted garlic.
evelin,
you are one lucky blogger to have tartelette as your mama blogger! i love your blog and the fact that you're 17 is awesome...your writing is great. isn't it fantastic to connect with people around the world who share your passion?
emiline, I try to convince myself it did;)
cakebrain, I'm lucky - I know!:) And thanks thanks thanks:)
Looks good, I love this kind of garlic in savory dishes! :)
Roasted garlic rocks! On to that for my sick husband...and prepare one myself in case he has decides to share!
made healthier, thank you! me too;)
tartelette, I hope it helps;)
i roasted garlic for the first time on thanksgiving. i then made the most heavenly garlic mashed potatoes ever with the fruits of my labor.
so good!
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