Air Fryer Roasted Garlic
Air Fryer Roasted Garlic is a simple and fast way to turn an ordinary head of garlic into an even more delectable ingredient to use in so many of your recipes!
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With just a few minutes of prep and thirty minutes in the Air Fryer, you'll have perfectly roasted heads of garlic to have on hand to take all of your classic recipes to new heights. You'll get beautiful golden brown, caramelized with sweet mellow flavor every time.
Roasted garlic is one of my favorite ways to amp up the flavor in my Roasted Garlic Red Mashed Potatoes recipe and is a very easy way to bring even more fantastic flavor to a Jalapeno Pepper Jack Chicken Burger.
Why Should I Use The Air Fryer To Roast Garlic?
Not only is this recipe super simple to follow, but using the Air Fryer is a cheaper way to roast raw garlic when compared to the oven. According to Nasdaq, using your Air Fryer uses about half as much energy as using your oven costs less than running your oven. Plus, it's a lot faster to make roasted garlic cloves in the Air Fryer than the oven.
Ingredients Needed
- Heads of garlic: Make a bunch to keep in the refrigerator.
- Olive oil: I like to use extra virgin olive oil, but I suppose other cooking oils like avocado oil will work.
- Seasonings- Salt and black pepper
How To Make Air Fryer Roasted Garlic
- Step 1: Using a sharp knife, cut off the tops of each garlic head to expose the tops of the individual cloves inside.
- Step 2: Place garlic heads on a piece of aluminum foil with the exposed cloves up.
- Step 3: Drizzle oil over top of the garlic bulb and sprinkle each head with salt and pepper.
- Step 4: Wrap the garlic heads with the foil and place in the basket of the Air Fryer and fry until tender.
Recipe Tips
- When picking your garlic bulbs at the store, squeeze them a bit. You want it to be firm, with strong individual garlic cloves inside- not empty, like they're starting to dry out.
- The foil packet will be hot, use tongs or oven mitts when removing it from the Air Fryer basket.
- Use your garlic immediately or store in an airtight container, mason jar, or other glass jar covered in oil, in the refrigerator to use for my Ciabatta Garlic Bread.
- Grab some crusty bread and this garlic recipe to make some garlic bread or garlic toast with this Garlic Herb Compound Butter. It's a wonderful addition to add to your favorite homemade pasta sauces and is a great addition to your pile of Creamy Mashed Potatoes.
Recipe Faq's
Garlic confit and roasted garlic are both delicious ways to enjoy fresh garlic, but they differ in preparation and flavor. Garlic confit involves cooking just the garlic cloves in oil, over low heat until they become soft and buttery. The result is a milder, sweeter flavor compared to roasted garlic, which is made by roasting a whole head of garlic in the oven or Air Fryer until it caramelizes and develops a golden brown color with a deeper, richer taste.
We prevent our garlic from burning by using a piece of tin foil
to help protect it from too much heat. Using this helps make sure the garlic cooks evenly as well. Always keep an eye on your garlic.
Yes, place the garlic in a 375-degree oven for 40 minutes.
A simple trick is to gently squeeze the base of the bulb after roasting. This will help loosen the cloves and make them easier to remove intact. Or use a small butter knife to carefully separate the individual cloves from the bulb, ensuring minimal damage to the cloves.
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Air Fryer Roasted Garlic
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 heads of garlic
- 3 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the air fryer to 400 degrees
- Cut off the tops of the garlic heads to expose the top of the cloves inside.
- Place the heads on top of a piece of aluminum foil drizzle 1 teaspoon of olive oil on top of each garlic head and sprinkle evenly the salt and pepper on top.
- Wrap the foil around the garlic heads.
- Air fry for 30 minutes
- Carefully unwrap the foil and check wo see if the garlic is tender by poking it with a fork.
- If it’s not tender wrap it back up and let it fry another 5 minutes.
- Remove the foil from the fryer and let it cool 10 minutes. Then squeeze the garlic head from thew bottom until the garlic comes out.
- Use immediately or store in the refrigerator until ready to use.
