Name: How to Make Perfect Roasted Garlic
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 2 heads garlic; 1 tablespoon olive oil; Kosher salt (to taste)

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Roasted Garlic

We’ve all ordered things made with roasted garlic in restaurants, but it’s highly possible that making it at home seemed daunting. But it’s really so, so easy. Not like “Oh, soufflés are so easy!”. More like if-you-can-drizzle-something-with-oil-and-wrap-it-in-aluminum-foil-you-can-do-this easy. And then – perfect roasted garlic!

How to Roast Garlic

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

In general I usually bake garlic in a 375 to 400 degree oven, but happily you can make roasted garlic at any temperature ranging from about 275 degrees to 425 degrees, you just need to adjust the timing up or down.

The following are the basic directions, but the most important thing to know is this: if you like roasted garlic, and want to use it in more of your dishes, then whenever you turn the oven, that’s an opportunity to make a head or two of this with about 2 minutes of hands on time.

You can do as many of these as you want, at the same time. Slice the top off each head of garlic so that the top of the cloves are exposed.

Woman pouring olive oil onto a trimmed bulb of garlic on a sheet of foil.

Place each head on a square of aluminum foil, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, and wrap up the cloves very well in the foil.

Woman wrapping foil around a trimmed garlic bulb with olive oil.

Bake for about 45 minutes until the garlic is very soft.

Bulb of garlic that is wrapped in foil and on a wooden cutting board.

When cool enough to handle, squeeze out the roasted garlic from the papery wrapper, pressing up from the bottom to pop it out.

Woman separating cloves of roasted garlic from the bulb.

How to Use Roasted Garlic:

Almost any way you would use regular garlic, you can use roasted garlic, for a softer, more roasty-smoky garlic flavor. You can assume that you should use about a 2 to 1 ratio to minced garlic.

Use it in sauces, casseroles, sautés, chilis. You can blend it into dips, and you can even just spread it on a piece of toasted baguette drizzled with olive oil and just eat it. You could also use that as the base to make all sorts of crostini and bruschetta.

How to Make Perfect Roasted Garlic: Soft, mild, creamy and so easy to make at home!
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Storing Roasted Garlic:

It will keep, well wrapped, in the fridge for at least a week, or tuck it in the freezer for up to 3 months. If you want to freeze it just separate it into cloves and put it in a sturdy zipper top bag, so it defrosts faster and so it’s easier to use what you need.

Fork smashing a clove of roasted garlic.

Recipes with Roasted Garlic:

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