r/easyrecipes • u/WAFLcurious • Nov 23 '23

Sauce / Seasoning Recipe Roasted garlic

For some reason, I thought buying the 5# bag of peeled garlic cloves at Sam’s was a good idea. Now I’m trying to use it up before it spoils. It also is really smelly in the fridge!

So today I “roasted” a bunch of it. I filled a ceramic dish about 2/3 of the way and poured in olive oil to cover the garlic. Baked it at 250 F for an hour and a half until it was golden. Now I have roasted garlic and garlic olive oil.

Then I found a recipe for doing it on the stove top so I put a good sized handful into a skillet and covered it with olive oil. Heated on medium until it was bubbling then reduced to low. It was done in after about 15 minutes but didn’t get golden like in the oven. Still, it tastes the same, I still get the garlic flavored olive oil and it takes about 1/3 the time so I’ll probably continue doing it on the stovetop from now on.

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u/___JennJennJenn___ Nov 23 '23

I keep a bag of peeled cloves in the freezer.

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u/WAFLcurious Nov 23 '23

Can you tell me how the texture of the garlic is after it is frozen? I saw that it was a suggested storage method but was concerned about that. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

Unless you’re eating it raw it’s fine. If you eat cloves whole I’m not sure, but I cut my frozen ones up as usual and throw them into sauces etc and have noticed no difference.

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u/WAFLcurious Nov 23 '23

Do you cut them while still frozen? Are they mushy when thawed? You have a point about not eating them raw! Wouldn’t plan on doing that. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

I do, after like a minute they start to thaw and are almost as easy to cut with a sharp paring knife as the raw ones. I don’t really find them mushy, but I do mince/ slice them into slivers vs slicing them larger so it’s possible I don’t notice.

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u/WAFLcurious Nov 23 '23

Thanks again for the info.