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Why Make This

  • Roasting whole garlic heads yields soft, caramelized cloves with deep, mellow flavor.
  • Roasting makes this garlic milder and easier to digest than raw garlic.
  • The roasted garlic can be spread on bread, mixed into pasta, or stirred into creamy dips.

Years ago a friend of mine showed me how to roast garlic whole and eat the warm, toasty cloves right out of the head. How wonderfully simple! And perfect for garlic lovers.

Roasting garlic changes the chemical makeup of the garlic so that it's easier to digest. You can eat a lot more garlic if it is completely cooked, with fewer side effects than you would get from eating raw garlic. (If you're into chemistry, you can read more about this process in the Wikipedia.)

Garlic roasted in foil.
Alison Bickel

How to Use Roasted Garlic

Eat the caramelized roasted cloves directly out of the heads, or add them to pasta dishes, mash them up and spread them over toast, or mix them with sour cream for a dip.

If you are sensitive to raw garlic, you may find that you can much more easily eat roasted garlic.

A fork in front of a head of roasted garlic, speaking a clove
Elise Bauer

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