Recipe: Appetizing Mike's 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread

Mike's 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread. Slice your bread and lightly brush with olive oil or butter. Place bread on same cookie sheet as garlic. Roast, basting occasionally with juices and stirring garlic, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest part of a thigh (avoiding bone) registers This looks great - after re-planting most of the bigger cloves from this summer's garden harvest, I have lots of little cloves of garlic left over, some with the.

You can use this delicious spicy spread for a butter then freezing it in to ice cube trays, a cream cheese spread, a salad dressing, for mashed potatoes, mixing it in baked breads, on hot noodles, on homemade pizzas and much more. Chop the small brown ends from garlic cloves. Place garlic on two sheets of tinfoil. You can cook Mike's 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mike's 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread

1. It's of 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread.
2. You need 40 clove of Fresh Shucked Garlic.
3. Prepare 2 tbsp of Garlic Olive Oil.
4. It's 1/4 tsp of Dried Rosemary.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Dried Thyme.
6. It's 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
7. Prepare 2 tbsp of Sun Dried Tomatoes In Oil [fine chopped].
8. It's to taste of Granulated Sugar.
9. Prepare of Sea Salt & Cracked Black Pepper [to taste].
10. It's 2 of Sheets Tinfoil.
11. It's of Bread Options.
12. You need 1 loaf of Toasted French Baguette Bread.
13. You need of Quality Crackers.
14. It's of Options.
15. Prepare 1 packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Coat garlic cloves in garlic olive oil. Put each head on a piece of aluminum foil. The resulting garlic has a cleaner, smoother taste than oven-roasted garlic. However, because the garlic essentially steams in the microwave, it won't take on golden-brown color.

Mike's 40 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°..
2. Take 2 sheets of tinfoil and place everything in the Roasted Garlic section except for your sun dried tomatoes [sun dried tomatoes will lose flavor with longer cook times] in it and wrap up tightly..
3. Slice your bread and lightly brush with olive oil or butter. Place bread on same cookie sheet as garlic. Bake bread until crispy. About 8 minutes. Bake garlic for 30 to 40 minutes at 350°. Or, until soft..
4. Smash garlic with a fork or potato masher..
5. Fine chop sun dried tomatoes and add to smashed garlic. Mix well..
6. Serve immediately and smear on French Baguette Bread or quality crackers. Roasted Garlic Triskets are fabulous with this sweet and salty dip. And, I don't even like Triskets!.

First, using a sharp knife, slice ¼ inch off the top of a whole head of garlic to expose the individual cloves. (Hint: Find the root of the bulb and cut off the opposite end of the head. Similar to chopping an onion, always leave the root in-tact.) Season: Spread the garlic cloves on the prepared baking sheet, in a single layer. Bake until golden brown and fork-tender, stirring halfway through cooking. At the time, he wrote, "You were looked down upon if you ate garlic." Speedy roasted garlic trick: While less visually stunning, separating the head of garlic into individual cloves will make the cloves roast more quickly. Leave the cloves intact and covered with their paper skin, toss with olive oil, and roast in a foil packet until soft.