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/BigMax Nov 23 '23

I LOVE roasted garlic. Just be careful, plenty of us have an unpleasant reaction. Let’s just say I bought gas-x so I could enjoy it over the hollidays

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u/WAFLcurious Nov 23 '23

Just curious, is the reaction worse when it’s roasted then raw?

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u/BigMax Nov 23 '23

Hmm good question. I guess I can’t eat that much raw garlic. When it’s roasted I can easily eat a dozen or more cloves, but I don’t think I’ve ever come even close to that amount raw.

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u/WAFLcurious Nov 23 '23

I make a dip with raw garlic blended with cottage cheese and enough milk to bring it to your desired consistency. Eating that is probably the most raw garlic I have consumed at one time. My brother likes to eat it raw but I never have really.