Mike's 100 Clove Roasted Garlic Spread
- 100 clove Fresh Garlic look for the whitest & most aromatic cloves you can find
- 2 tbsp Garlic Olive Oil
- 1/2 tsp Dried Rosemary
- 1/2 tsp Dried Thyme
- 1/2 tsp Cracked Sea Salt or more
- 1/2 tsp Cracked Black Pepper
- 3 tbsp Sun Dried Tomatoes seasoned in oil - chopped
- 2 large Sheets Tinfoil
- 1 loaf Quality Sturdy Bread
- 2 packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese room temp - optional
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Chop the small brown ends from garlic cloves.
- Place garlic on two sheets of tinfoil.
- Coat garlic cloves in garlic olive oil.
- Add all seasonings and coat cloves well.
- Double wrap your garlic.
- You don't want her to burn.
- Wrap garlic up tightly.
- Roast garlic for 45 minutes.
- Test your garlic.
- If a knife goes thru them easily - they're fully cooked.
- Smash your warm garlic with a potato masher or fork.
- Taste test your garlic mixture and see if you'd like to add more cracked sea salt.
- Sea salt really does make this dish!
- Chop sun dried tomatoes and mix well into your smashed roasted garlic clove mixture.
- Seal her up tight and let her sweat for a half hour.
- Stir intermittently.
- Serve spread warm or cold on toasted bread, quality crackers or heavy duty chips.
- Roasted Garlic Trisket Crackers are the BOMB with this spread!
- Here in New Mexico, we typically squeeze lemon or lime wedges on everything we eat.
- But, lemon tastes much better on this spread IMHO.
- Consider those additions.
- They really do pair well and contradict the sweetness of the garlic and the sun dried tomatoes.
- Enjoy!
garlic, garlic, rosemary, thyme, salt, pepper, tomatoes, tinfoil, bread, philadelphia cream cheese
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/355417-mikes-100-clove-roasted-garlic-spread (may not work)