Roasted Garlic Butter with Basil

Name: Roasted Garlic Butter with Basil
Total time: 3600 s
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 7 whole heads of garlic; extra virgin olive oil; 500 g soft butter; 25 leaves basil, chopped; 1 tsp ground black pepper

JJ @JJduPlessis1

Cape Town

Roasted Garlic Butter with Basil

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Ingredients

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7whole heads of garlic
extra virgin olive oil
500 gsoft butter
25 leavesbasil, chopped
1 tspground black pepper

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Steps

1 hour

1

Preheat oven to 200°C
2

Peel and discard the loose papery outer layers of the whole garlic bulbs, keeping them whole
3

Cut the tops off the tops of the garlic heads. And place them on tin foil, a piece big enough to wrap them with.
4

Drizzle olive oil over each exposed head, using your fingers to rub the olive oil over all the cut, exposed garlic cloves.
5

Cover them with tin foil and bake for 45 minutes.
Remove from the oven. Allow the garlic to cool enough so you can touch it without burning yourself.
6

Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skins. Mix with the butter, basil and pepper.
7

You can use this garlic butter for whatever you want. I made some garlic bread.