Keen to find out how to roast garlic? Cut the top off the garlic bulb, garlic porridge the tops of the garlic cloves. Put on a small square of foil, and rub with the olive oil.

Scrunch up the foil to seal in the bulb. Roast for 25-30 mins until soft when pressed, and the papery casing is light golden. Leave to cool for a few minutes before squeezing the soft roasted garlic out of their shells. Alternatively, take off all the papery casing and remove the cloves individually. RECIPE TIPSHOW TO USE ROAST GARLICStir roast garlic into pasta sauces, blend into soups like cauliflower or tomato, or use in cream sauces for chicken or pork. This website is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.

Allium sativum, known as garlic, from William Woodville, Medical Botany, 1793. Allium sativum is a perennial flowering plant growing from a bulb. The leaf blade is flat, linear, solid, and approximately 1. The plant may produce pink to purple flowers from July to September in the Northern Hemisphere. Identification of the wild progenitor of common garlic is difficult due to the sterility of its many cultivars, which limits the ability to cross test with wild relatives. Allium sativum grows in the wild in areas where it has become naturalized. There are two subspecies of A.

Döll, called Ophioscorodon, or hard-necked garlic, includes porcelain garlics, rocambole garlic, and purple stripe garlics. It is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Allium ophioscorodon G. There are at least 120 cultivars originating from Central Asia, making it the main center of garlic biodiversity. Garlic is easy to grow and can be grown year-round in mild climates. While sexual propagation of garlic is possible, nearly all of the garlic in cultivation is propagated asexually, by planting individual cloves in the ground. Garlic plants can be grown closely together, leaving enough space for the bulbs to mature, and are easily grown in containers of sufficient depth. When selecting garlic for planting, it is important to pick large bulbs from which to separate cloves.