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Homemade Roasted Garlic Butter

Sometimes it’s the simple things that makes us the happiest. Homemade roasted garlic butter is high on my makes-me-crazy-happy list. (Sure sure, some of that crazy was there prior to the butter)

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

You know I love a simple recipe. This one is muy simple. OMT! likey!

Homemade Roasted Garlic Butter

Ingredients:

4 heads (not cloves) of garlic

1 cup softened unsalted butter

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

Directions:

1) Cut tops of garlic heads off. Place on foil. Wrap tightly.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

(As you can see from this pic, mah garlic was gonna sprout soon.  Still usable and delish! No waste here.)

2) Place in oven (or toaster oven, as I did) at 350° for about 45 minutes.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

3) When the garlic cloves are squishy soft (poke with knife to test), take out of oven and unwrap to cool completely.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

4) When cooled, squeeze garlic into a bowl with softened butter.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

5) Mix together, breaking up the larger garlic pieces.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

6) Optional: add a tsp of kosher or pink salt.

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Place in an airtight container (I use either these smaller, easy to use, mason jars or the container shown in pic below.) and store in the fridge.

Easy Homemade Roasted Garlic

NOTE: The butter will continue to deepen in flavor as it sits in fridge, so if you are planning to use it for a special meal, make it a week in advance for a full-on flavor explosion.

SECONDARY NOTE: There are lots of recipes for garlic butter that don’t include roasting the garlic. I have made those as well, but this version is my favorite. It produces a complex flavor that raw garlic can’t touch.

Now, pass the bread and let’s do this thang!

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Monday 11th of July 2016

[…] added freshly ground salt, a bit of homemade roasted garlic butter and a squeeze of half a lime over the mixture. A quick taste of the fluffy concoction had me […]

Nikki Frank-Hamilton

Tuesday 14th of June 2016

I love the flavor of roasted garlic, raw is good, roasted is out of this world! My sister and her husband roast garlic and eat it just like this. But this butter looks so delish! Great on so many things. Roasted veggies, meat on the grill, fish, potatoes. The list is endless. And like you said, easy! I love easy! LOL

Patti Tucker

Tuesday 14th of June 2016

We eat this garlic butter almost every stinkin' day. It's that good...and easy. Did I mention easy?

Judy

Thursday 9th of June 2016

Oh I;m thinking this is in my Future!! I love garlic butter and it fits so nicely in my eating plan!! Thanks for sharing over at #WayWow

Patti Tucker

Friday 10th of June 2016

You won't be disappointed.

Morgan

Wednesday 8th of June 2016

Roasted garlic is my favorite -I need to try this ASAP!

Patti Tucker

Wednesday 8th of June 2016

DO IT!

halfa1000miles

Wednesday 8th of June 2016

This looks fantastic! I picture a big dollop of this on top of a steak :) #waywow

Patti Tucker

Wednesday 8th of June 2016

Yum!

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