Cook with Huerta: Garlic Confit

831 East Belmont Street,Ontario CA 91761

20 November, 2021

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Cooking with Huerta: A Roasted Garlic Upgrade, Garlic Confit. THE NEED: We've all seen savory, creamy, roasted garlic on our social media accounts added to soups or spread on bread, leaving us with a pretty intense craving for some garlic goodness. But have you looked into how to roast them? PROBLEM: WELL when cooked at 400 degrees for an hour (the standard approach), the outer cloves brown unevenly and many of the inner cloves stay pale and taste more steamed than roasted. To remedy this, you could drop the oven temperature to 250 degrees and roast the garlic for TWO hours all to squeeze some garlic pulp from its papery chambers and inevitable leave some pulp inside. Who has that kind of time? What if I told you that you can get that same buttery, garlicy goodness in just thirty minutes, and leave no clove behind! SOLUTION: Garlic Confit! Garlic confit is a preparation in which peeled garlic cloves are cooked gently in a pot of oil or fat until they are creamy and lightly tanned. The result captures much of the savory-sweetness of roasted garlic in about half an hour. Each clove becomes meltingly tender, and since nothing gets left behind in the skins, the yield is more predictable. FINAL PRODUCT: A fragrant garlic oil that can be whisked into dressings, drizzled on cooked meats and vegetables, and sopped up with crusty bread Join Huerta del Valle as we show you how to make your very own garlic confit at our beautiful urban farm. We will make our garlic confit using Huerta del Valle grown organic garlic and every participant will take home their own 6 oz jar of garlic confit.