Description
Easy instructions for roasting garlic in the oven.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 head of garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- Pinch of black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Peel the outer most papery skin from the garlic head.
- Slice the top part of the garlic head off cutting about 1/4 of the way down the head to expose each clove. If necessary, make additional slices on any edge cloves to exposed a small portion as needed.
- Place the garlic head cut side up on a piece of foil, drizzle the garlic with about olive oil (about 1 tablespoon per head) .
- Sprinkle the garlic head with kosher salt and black pepper.
- Gently (and loosely) gather the foil into a bundle on top of the garlic.
- Roast in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes until the cloves are soft and brown on the edges. (Peek in the package to make sure.)
- Remove the bundle from the oven and let rest for 5 minutes.
Notes
If roasting pre-peeled garlic cloves, just mount them on a piece of foil, and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with kosher salt and pepper and gather you the foil to make a garlic bundle and proceed with the instructions but check garlic at 35 minutes.
To remove the cloves from the roasted head of garlic, pull the head apart to separate the cloves and then gently squeeze the roasted garlic from the papery casing.
The roasted garlic can easily be spread with a knife.