Slow-roasted garlic confit in olive oil
Whole cloves cooked in olive oil until soft, sweet and spreadable. The cloves go on toast, into soups, dressings, mashed potatoes. The infused oil is gold — use for vinaigrettes and drizzling.
Ingredients for 12
Method
- I
Preheat oven to 120°C (250°F). Break the garlic heads into cloves. Peel each clove (a quick trick: crush lightly with the flat of a knife, the skin slips off).
- II
Place the peeled cloves in a small oven-safe dish or ramekin — they should sit in a single layer.
- III
Add the thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, peppercorns, and salt.
- IV
Pour over the olive oil until the cloves are fully submerged. This is essential — exposed cloves burn.
- V
Cover with foil and bake 90 minutes, until the cloves are pale gold, deeply soft, and yielding.
- VI
Cool to room temperature. Transfer everything (oil + cloves + herbs) to a sterilized jar.
- VII
Refrigerate. Use within 2 weeks — do NOT keep at room temperature (botulism risk in oil-covered garlic).
Botanical context
This recipe is indexed as a culinary use note, not a supplement protocol. When a featured plant is also used in herbal traditions, PlantSage keeps the food preparation separate from medicinal dosage advice so readers can enjoy the recipe without confusing a kitchen quantity with a therapeutic serving.
Garlic (Allium sativum) is the main botanical reference for this page. Check the linked plant profile for identification notes, cautions, and cultivation context before foraging or substituting fresh material. Use properly identified edible material, avoid contaminated harvest sites, and treat unfamiliar plants as ingredients that require the same care as any other food. If you substitute dried herbs for fresh, wild plants for cultivated ones, or concentrated extracts for whole ingredients, start conservatively because flavour, bitterness, and tolerance can change quickly.
Notes & variations
Refrigeration is not optional — garlic in oil at room temperature is a documented C. botulinum risk. Freeze in ice-cube trays for longer storage. The infused oil is delicious over toasted sourdough.
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