Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mike's creamy roasted garlic spread. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Mike's Creamy Roasted Garlic Spread is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Mike's Creamy Roasted Garlic Spread is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mike's creamy roasted garlic spread using 23 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's Creamy Roasted Garlic Spread:
- Get ● For The Roasted Garlic Spread
- Prepare 1 (15 oz) Jar Bertoli Garlic Alfredo Or Regular Ragu Alfredo [any other brands may lend a metallic taste to your spread]
- Get 2 large 3" Elephant Garlic Bulbs [equals 1 cup roasted garlic]
- Make ready 2 cup Mozzarella Cheese [room temp]
- Make ready 1 (8 oz) Philadelphia Cream Cheese [room temp]
- Make ready 1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup Sun Dried Tomatoes [chopped]
- Get 1 can Artichokes [in water - drained - rough chopped]
- Take 1 packages (10 oz) Frozen Spinach [fully drained & squeezed - rough chopped]
- Take 1/4 cup Chives [chopped]
- Take 1/2 tsp White Pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp Fresh Parsley Or 1 tsp Dried Parsley
- Get 1 pinch Each: Sea Salt - Rosemary - Thyme [for garlic bulbs]
- Make ready 1 Bottle Extra Virgin Olive Oil [for garlic bulbs]
- Prepare 1 box Tinfoil [for garlic bulbs]
- Take 1 large Piece Cheesecloth [to drain spinach]
- Make ready 1 box Tinfoil
- Take ● For The Serving Options
- Get 1 loaf French Bread Or Baguette Bread
- Get 1 loaf Flat Crispy Bread
- Get 1 box Roasted Garlic Triskets
- Take 1 box Sun Dried Triskets
- Get 1 box Pita Chips
It sounds like a ton, but the reason I've called for it is because the first time I made the soup, I. This is truly the perfect hummus, in my humble opinion. Roasting the garlic brings out its nutty and sweet flavor and cuts down on the sharpness. Just a few ingredients make up this luxuriously creamy roasted garlic cream sauce… perfect for dipping or swirled with your favorite pasta!
Instructions to make Mike's Creamy Roasted Garlic Spread:
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Pull out all cheeses to bring them to room temperature.
- Fully drain your Artichokes, dethaw your Spinach and completely drain as well. Use cheese cloth to squeeze all fluid from Spinach.
- Take off as much of the white garlic husk as you can without having the bulbs fall apart.
- Do not cut any portion of the garlic bulbs. Leave them completely in tact. Place on tinfoil and gently pull up the sides to create a tinfoil bowl.
- Add about 1/4 cup Olive Oil to each garlic bulb inside the tinfoil. Don't overfill.
- Add a pinch of Sea Salt, Rosemary and Thyme to the tops of your oil coated garlic bulb.
- Wrap bulb up tightly in tinfoil and double wrap garlic bulb with tinfoil.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until soft.
- Once cooled, pull your garlic meat from its outer husks. Mash with a fork or potato masher and discard any skins that don't mash completely. Reserve Olive Oil for bread later on.
- Add all cheeses, Alfredo and garlic together and mix well.
- Add in all other ingredients leaving the Artichokes for last.
- Place in oven safe bowl at 350° and bake 35 minutes or until bubbling.
- If serving on French Bread or Baguette Bread: Slice bread in 1" slices. Brush leftover Olive Oil from garlic bulbs on bread. Place on cookie sheet and put in oven for 15 minutes at 350° or until crispy. Slice each piece in half and plate with garlic spread.
- If you don't have enough Garlic Infused Olive Oil from your bulbs to brush on your bread, add additional, regular Olive Oil, 1 tsp Garlic Powder and some Dried Parsley to your bowl and mix. * Pictured directly below is the creamier version of Roasted Garlic Spread made with Alfredo Sauce.
- Authors Note: For a fluffier Roasted Garlic Spread, you can omit the Alfredo Sauce and substitute it for 2/3 cup Sour Cream and one more 8 oz brick Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
- Other excellent options for breads are Roasted Garlic Triskets, Sun Dried Triskets and Pita Chips.
The roasted garlic mashed potatoes turned out really well! They were so creamy and good. The flavour of the sweet roasted garlic was just amazing. Mash the potatoes along with the garlic, butter, sour, cream cheese and enough milk to bring the potatoes to the desired consistency. I like all of those words… As I read through the recipe I realised it was almost like a super cheesy pesto - two WHOLE HEADS of garlic get roasted until soft and sticky, blended with a shit load of parmesan, olive oil and some other bits to make a creamy.
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