Quick Tip: Easy Oven Roasted Garlic

Hi, I'm Louisa Shafia, here on eHow.com, and today I'm showing you a great technique, how to make roasted garlic. This is a really simple technique to learn and it's great because this is something you can put into salads. You can put it into spreads. You can really use it anywhere. So, what I'm doing is I'm slicing off the top of my head of garlic and I really want to get right in there and slice until I can see the actual garlic cloves. Now, I'm going to coat this with some olive oil. I'll just pour some olive oil in my hand and then I'm going to generously coat my garlic with the oil. I'm going to put a little bit of salt on it, just rub that all around. Now I'm going to roast the garlic in the oven at 400 degrees for about an hour or until the garlic is really soft. When the garlic comes out of the oven, this is what it should look like and you can tell when it's done because it will have a lot of golden brown color around the edges. It will feel really soft and it will have really released its aromas so you can smell it. It smells very different from raw garlic. So when it's finished, because I sliced open the garlic cloves, all I need to do is squeeze out the roasted garlic. This is so cool. Um, look at that. It's got a mellow sweet taste and I'm just going to mash this up into a paste. So here is my mashed roasted garlic. This is great to add to anything. You could mash it up with butter, you could add it to mashed potatoes, you could put it in salad dressing. Really it's a wonderful ingredient in almost anything you can think of. I hope you'll give it a try. I'm Louisa Shafia. See you next time here on eHow.com.