Roasted Cauliflower With Garlic Cloves

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 large head cauliflower
• 2 heads garlic
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• salt, as needed
• ground black pepper, as needed

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• 2 meanwhile, wash the cauliflower and break into florets.
• 3 take the heads of garlic and peel the individual cloves.
• 4 leave the peeled cloves whole.
• 5 put the cauliflower and the garlic cloves on a large cookie sheet with sides.
• 6 add the olive oil and generously sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• 7 mix well.
• 8 if your cauliflower is really large, you might need a couple more tablespoons of oil.
• 9 try and spread the cauliflower to a single layer.
• 10 bake for 10 minutes.
• 11 stir.
• 12 bake 5 more minutes and stir.
• 13 bake 5 more minutes and stir for a third time.
• 14 you need to keep stirring every 5 minutes another time or two.
• 15 the cauliflower tastes best when the garlic cloves and the smaller florets have browned.
• 16 notes:
• 17 a. i frequently make this with potatoes, but use a martha stewart tip for potatoes and put the baking sheet into the oven to preheat along with the oven. mix the potatoes, garlic, oil, salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl. sometimes i will add a dash of thyme or rosemary. after the oven is preheated, remove the baking sheet and add the potatoes to the baking sheet--they will sizzle. this tip leads to potatoes that are a little bit more brown than they would normally be when following this recipe.
• 18 b. i often like to buy whole peeled garlic cloves from costco. they go bad fairly quickly, so i keep them in the freezer and just pull out what i need each time.