They make a wonderful topping for bread, mashed cauliflower, meat, or cooked vegetables. While raw garlic is sharp and pungent, cooked garlic is creamy, flavorful, and mild in comparison to raw. These roasted garlic cloves are a delicacy. It’s amazing how cooking eliminates their sharpness, replacing it with a creamy sweetness.
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Peeled garlic cloves: You’ll need two or three heads of garlic for this recipe. To make life easier, you can buy peeled garlic cloves at many grocery stores. Olive oil: I love cooking with this delicious oil. It adds wonderful flavor to the garlic. Kosher salt: I use Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt.
The best way to change this recipe is to use melted butter instead of olive oil to coat the garlic. The combination of garlic, butter, and salt is wonderful.
One more thing that I sometimes do is to sprinkle the garlic cloves ever so lightly with some dried thyme. It adds an interesting layer of flavor to the dish.
You start by placing the garlic cloves in a bowl and coating them in olive oil. I use about one tablespoon of oil.
Bake them in the oven until they are tender, golden, and creamy. Depending on how hot your oven runs, this should take between 20-30 minutes in a 400°F oven, and you should stir them midway through baking.
Mash them on top of warm slices of almond flour bread. Use them to top mashed cauliflower or mashed butternut squash. They make a great topping for vegetables such as roasted radishes, steamed broccoli, roasted green beans, roasted vegetables, and roasted asparagus. Add them as a topping to salads such as asparagus salad, steak salad, or keto chicken salad. They make a great addition to soft-scrambled eggs, microwave eggs, or fluffy scrambled eggs. They’re excellent with slow-cooked meats such as beef cheeks, slow cooker beef ribs, or boneless short ribs. Try them as a hamburger topping! I love them with turkey burgers, lamb burgers, and bison burgers. I also like adding them to pasta and noodle dishes such as Hearts of Palm pasta, zucchini noodles, and spaghetti squash noodles.
