Roasted Garlic Butter

butter made better

In this world of “butter” sprays and powders, it’s hard to believe that anything could make good ol’ fashioned creamy butter better.  I am here to tell you—roasted garlic can make it better.  It won’t sit atop your pancakes, but it will be perfect just about anywhere else you could think to lump it.  Toss into a pound of hot pasta, on either side of a simple grilled cheese, or on a hunk of crusty bread.

cooking information

• Yield: 1 Cup
• Prep Time: 2 Minutes

Cook Time: 45 Minutes

recipe ingredients

• 2 Large Heads Garlic
• 2 Sticks Unsalted Butter
• Olive Oil
• Salt and Pepper

recipe instruction

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

2. Slice the top off the heads of your garlic. Make sure you don’t completely slice it in half lengthwise; just cut them enough to expose each of the cloves.

3. Place your heads of garlic on a large square of tin foil. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Fold the tin foil up so the all of the garlic is covered and there is no way for the olive oil to be released. Place in your preheated oven.

4. Let your garlic cook for 40-45 minutes. You can either check to see if they are finished by opening it up and seeing the garlic or by simply squeezing the garlic and making sure it’s tender.

5. After your garlic is cooked, remove from the oven and let rest 15-20 minutes, or until it has cooled.

6. Add your 2 sticks of butter to a food processor. Next, holding your cooled roasted garlic, squeeze the cloves from the bulb. Blend together until evenly combined.

7. Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator until ready for use.

cooking tips

• This recipe is just great to have to learn how to make roasted garlic. Simply serve roasted garlic — all by itself — with a butter knife on crusty bread (to people you know and love who won’t mind smelling like garlic together).
• I like to put this roasted garlic butter on my Linguica Sausage Burger. You could easily but it in between a loaf of crusty bread with some fresh basil and grated Parmesan for amazing homemade garlic bread. Or, you could melt the roasted garlic butter and toss it into your popcorn.