Garlic Paste

I use a LOT of garlic and paste is pricey so I made my own. For a pizza spread you will need 12 cloves of garlic, unpeeled. Put the garlic on a sheet of foil and drizzle with olive oil and 1 Tbsp of water. Fold up the foil in to a pouch thingy and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. When finished let the pouch cool down slightly then squeeze the garlic out of the skin (it comes out the dark stump end) into a small bowl. Add 2 tsp of olive oil and smash together with the back of a spoon.












I spread this on top of pizza dough that I made in the bread machine. If you make a good quantity of the paste you can freeze or it will keep in the fridge for a couple of weeks. Really great to have on hand for bread and other goodies :)