Name: Roasted Garlic
Yield: 1 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 garlic head; 1 large French baguette, sliced on the diagonal and toasted; sweet butter, Softened

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ingredients

1 garlic head
1 large French baguette, sliced on the diagonal and toasted
sweet butter, Softened

directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Remove the papery outer covering of whole garlic head, but do not seperate the cloves or peel them.
Place as many whole heads of garlic on a large square of heavy-duty aluminum foil as there are people to be served.
Fold up foil so that the cloves are completely wrapped.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.
Serve each diner a head of garlic and some bread and butter.
Separate cloves.
Hold a clove over a piece of buttered bread and squeeze.
The garlic puree will pop out, like toothpaste from a tube.
Spread and eat.
GARLIC PUREE:
To make a batch of Garlic Puree for later use, let roasted heads of garlic cool, unwarapped for at least 5 minutes.
Gently separate the cloves and squeeze each one over a fine meshed sieve, so that the softened garlic pops into the sieve.
With wooden spatula or wooden spoon, rub garlic through the sieve into a small container or bowl.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate the puree if needed.
QUICK PUREE:
If you are in a hurry, you may skip the refinement of the sieve.
Simply squeeze the cloves, one by one, over a bowl.
When they have all been squeezed, use a rubber spatula to push the puree into a neat mound cover tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until needed.
It will keep for months.
To keep indefinitely, cover with a film of olive oil.

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review by AmandaMcG

1/19/2018

So easy! So good! I sprayed with an olive oil spray and then mixed the roasted garlic with some mashed potatoes.

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photo by Bonnie G 2

2/23/2010

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review by Bonnie G 2

2/23/2010

I needed this for one of the items on RCS #15 cooking event and had never done it before - this was so easy and the taste so good, didn't know what I had been missing all this time when I just used regular garlic in my dishes. I followed A Messy Cook's advise and brushed the heads with olive oil prior to baking and they came out wonderful.

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review by A Messy Cook

8/8/2009

I lightly brushed the heads with olive oil.

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review by RaeMay

2/20/2009

Awesome. No other words can describe this. Just awesome. Thanks!!

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