How to Roast Garlic

5 from 8 votes

Learn how to roast garlic in the oven two different ways, both incredibly easy and versatile!

Prep Time5

Cook Time40

Total Time45

Course: Basics, Condiment

Cuisine: American

Keyword: roasted garlic

Servings: servings

Calories: 42kcal

Preheat the oven to 400°F and place the oven rack in the middle position.
Peel the loose paper off the garlic, leaving the tight paper skins intact. Keep the whole head together, don't separate any of the cloves.
Using a sharp knife, slice off the top 1/2" of the whole head of garlic, or enough to expose the tops of the cloves.
Place garlic on a sheet of foil and drizzle the exposed cloves liberally with olive oil. Season with a sprinkle of salt, pepper.

Wrap the foil up around the garlic loosely, then place the garlic in a baking dish and roast in the oven for 35 - 50minutes.

To remove garlic from the paper cloves, just squeeze at the root end of the head, and the soft garlic should slide right out.

Serve warm, or let cool and add to an airtight container. Cover with some olive oil if desired.

The baking time is a range since all heads of garlic are different in size, and you may want your garlic to be more or less caramelized.
I recommend checking the garlic around 35-40 minutes, then adding more time if needed.

Instead of heads of garlic, pick up a bag of peeled garlic cloves (Costco has great organic ones), or peel multiple heads of garlic.
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Add at least 2 cups of peeled garlic cloves to a parchment paper lined 8x8 baking dish.
Drizzle with olive oil (about 1/2 - 1 Tbsp per cup of garlic), and stir.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, stir, then reduce oven temperature to 350°F and continue to roast another 20 minutes or so.
The last 20 minutes of roasting, stir the garlic every 5 minutes to make sure it doesn't brown too much, and to check that it's as caramelized as you want it.