Nutrition
Ingredients
- 3 bulbs Garlic peeled
- 1 tbsp Vegan Butter
- Olive Oil (used for garlic confit)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 250 F
- Peel the three bulbs worth of garlic.
- In a small (as small as you can find) oven-safe dish, place your peeled garlic. Add olive oil until garlic is completely covered.
- Cook in oven for 90 minutes. This will make your garlic confit.
- Put your garlic in a small bowl, getting as much oil off of the garlic as possible. Do not add the olive oil to this.
- Add your room temperature vegan butter to the garlic.
- With your immersion blender, blend until you have a smooth, creamy mixture. Enjoy with pizza, breadsticks, bread or whatever else you can think of!
Equipment
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Have you ever ordered a Papa John’s pizza without cheese, not because you truly love their poorly veganized pizza, but because you have an unhealthy obsession with their garlic butter? Well, now you don’t have to order Papa John’s just for their delicious garlic butter, you can make it at home with just a few ingredients and like 5 – 10 minutes of actual work in the kitchen!
I actually think it tastes better than restaurant garlic butter anyways – fresher and creamier. It’s also a little healthier because it’s mostly just made of garlic, whereas most of the restaurant ones just uses spices to achieve the garlicky taste. I love this Homemade Garlic Dipping Sauce for pizza and breadsticks, but you can also just spread it on some yummy bread or toast or use it as a garlic-based sauce on your pizza. I’m sure there are other cool things you could do with it too; you’ll have to let me know if you think of any others!
Ingredients
- Garlic – I really, really think you need to use fresh garlic for this, whether that’s whole garlic bulbs or pre-peeled ones that you can sometimes find at the grocery store. We are going to use the garlic to make a garlic confit, which is basically just when you cook garlic in olive oil for a long time at a low temperature. It pretty much just becomes super mushy and delicious; also, it seems to mellow out the garlic flavor in a really great way.
- Vegan Butter – I really like to use Miyoko’s vegan butter, but any brand will work. You want to make sure it’s room temperature though.
- Olive Oil – we are just using the olive oil to cook the garlic in. You will have most of the olive oil leftover because we will not be using it for the actual garlic sauce. This is basically garlic infused olive oil though, and is very flavorful, so you might want to save it to cook other things with!
Instructions
- First, pre-heat the oven to 250 F
- While you’re waiting on the oven to get warm, peel all of your garlic; you should use 3 bulbs worth.
- Place the peeled garlic in an oven safe container. It’s a good idea to use the smallest container you can find so that you don’t need to use as much olive oil to cook the garlic in. I really like to use these tiny glass tupperware containers I have; they’re the perfect size.
- Next, cover the garlic with olive oil. You want your garlic to cook in this so it stays moist and gets really soft.
- Cook the garlic in the olive oil for 90 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let cool down for 10 – 15 minutes so it doesn’t immediately melt all of your butter.
- In a small bowl (or container that your immersion blender may have come with), add your garlic and butter. You will want to drain as much olive oil from the garlic as possible so you don’t end up with a bunch of empty calories in your garlic dipping sauce. I use a little strainer. You can save the garlic-infused olive oil for cooking something else!
- Take your immersion blender, and blend the garlic and butter until very smooth and creamy.
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