ROASTED GARLIC INSTANT POT STYLE

-


I love garlic.  I do not care if it is stinky or smelly.  I LOVE IT!  I use it on so many things.  I am not Italian but thank goodness I am married to a man that is part Italian.  He can tolerate my obsession with garlic and does not judge me for garlic breath.

 Now if you wanna up the anty you make roasted garlic.  That really kicks garlic up a notch.  However, it is time-consuming in the oven and messy to get out.  In using the instant pot you get it done much quicker and it is oh so easy to peel.

 All you do is cut the top or is it the bottom off?



Put a cup of water in the inner pot of the IP, add your trivet with the garlic bulbs on it and set your pot for 5 minutes.  Allow to NR for 10 minutes.  Then do a QR if necessary.




Once you have opened your IP take the garlic off the trivet and place it on a cookie sheet and drizzle a bit of EVOO on top and pop them in the oven or in my case the toaster oven.  I use my toaster oven a lot because it does not heat the house up as much during warm months.


The oven is just to brown the tops a bit.


The garlic will pop right out with hardly any mess at all!!!

 If you do not have an IP you seriously need one!  I do not know how many times I have said how awesome it is!!  It makes life easier.  

 Today I have bread rising with sun-dried tomatoes, medley of olives and roasted garlic.  YUM!!  

 ENJOY!!

 NOTE: NR means nature release and QR means quick release.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TOMATO SOUP (CANNING RECIPE)

-
Image
I made this a couple of weeks back and I am finally getting around to post about it.  I always say life gets in the way and it truly does.  I stay so busy that I sometimes have a hard time finding the time to sit down and write or type a blog post.  It is not that I do not want to, it really is hard to carve out a bit of time to sit down.  Now with all that said.... We are bracing for Hurricane Florence in my neck of the woods.  Thank goodness it has been downgraded to a Cat 2 but you just never know.  I am saying all of that to say it is always good to have some stuff canned.  Oh, I know you can go to the grocery store and buy just about anything but have you given any thought to what is in that tin can you buy?  Or that frozen entree?  Think hard about what you are putting into your body.  Just last night our friend Matt stopped by and he another friend, Dusty that when he runs out of food he is coming to my house.   I have never canned tomato soup.  I really have never thoug
Read more

COPY CAT ORTEGA TACO SAUCE

-
Image
Tacos, everyone loves tacos.  I mean why else do we have Taco Tuesdays?  Well, that is exactly what we had last night for dinner.  Tacos!!!  After fixing them I realized I was out of this wonderful sauce.  I normally keep a few jars canned in the basement but I used the last jar a few weeks back.   Needless to say, I needed to make more since I had the tacos already cooking.  I am so glad it is very easy to make.  Quick and simple.  I will admit though it is better if you let it sit a few days I did but not have the time for that last night.  After all, it was Taco Tuesday in the Cristina's household. Gather your spices together.  Measure out each into a small mixing bowl. Mix it all together. Add tomato sauce and apple cider vinegar. Mix together. Here is a secret ingredient that I add to make it taste yummy.  Lemon pepper seasoning.  It takes the level up a bit and makes it taste so much more like Ortega.   COPY CAT ORTEGA TAC
Read more

HOW TO MAKE CRISPY PICKLED JALAPENOS

-
Image
I have struggled to find a recipe to make pickled jalapenos that were nice and crisp.  My pickled jalapenos were mushy and could only be used as a spice, like in chili or some Mexican dish.  I wanted my pickled jalapenos to have a crunchy bite to them.  I wanted to feel the crisp when I bit into it.  Being frugal I could not just toss them out so of course I still used them.   The last few years I have found a way to make sure they are crunchy and nicely crisp.  I use 2 products, Pickling lime and pickle crisp.  Yeah, I double do it but it works!! My jalapenos came at a lark this year.  Our friend Wade gave us some pepper plants that he had started from seed.  I think he felt sorry for us because we did not have a good turnout with our own seedlings.  We thought we were getting scotch bonnet peppers but it turned out we got 4 jalapeno pepper plants instead.  There is a joke behind planting seeds, do not drink and label your seeds.  It is funny how things turn out becau
Read more