ROASTED GARLIC
Roasting Garlic in the oven the best and easiest way to use garlic. These sweet caramelized cloves have so much flavour and are excellent in main dishes, spreads and much more!
GARLIC (Allium sativum)
Garlic is the most pungent of the onion family and help to promote warmth in the body to move blood and energy around.
Garlic is high in sulfur, allicin, amino acids, fiber, magnesium, calcium, zinc, selenium, vitamin c vitamin B1, saponins and phenolic compounds and many phytonutrients.
Because garlic is rich in sulfur it helps to remove heavy metals from the body and promote protein/amino acid metabolism, so it is great to help digestion with those who have a heavy protein diet.
Garlic is a powerful antibiotic that fights viruses, parasites and bacteria. Garlic can work as a decongestant and expectorant and helps to boost the immune system.
Garlic is helps with heart disease, stroke and can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
ROASTING GARLIC
Roasting garlic is great for those who eat a lot of garlic. It changes the chemical makeup of the garlic so that it's easier to digest and you don’t get that “garlic aftertaste” that tends to linger for days.
You can eat a lot more garlic if it is completely cooked, with fewer side effects than you would get from eating raw garlic.
USE AND STORE
You can add roasted garlic to almost any recipe!
Main vegetable dishes
Meat Dishes
Aa spread for a baguette
In a salad dressing
Soup and stews
Marinades and sauces
Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks
Roasted Garlic
Ingredients
- 6-9 garlic bulbs
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 400°F
- Trim the tops off all the garlic bulbs
- Add all the bulbs to a parchment lined bake sheet
- drizzle olive oil over top
- Cover the top with tin foil
- Bake for 45 minute or until golden brown
- Let cool
- Once the garlic is room temperature, you can squeeze out the cloves into a mason jar
- Store in a fridge for up to 2 weeks