Roasted Garlic Toasts with Olio Nuovo

Name: Roasted Garlic Toasts with Olio Nuovo
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 loaf ciabatta, sliced 1/4 in. thick (you will need 14 slices); 2 heads garlic; 1 serving Kosher salt and pepper; 59 milliliters About olio nuovo or extra-virgin olive oil; 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided

Roasted Garlic Toasts with Olio Nuovo might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe makes 1 servings with 1662 calories, 42g of protein, and 65g of fat each. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a vegan diet. 1 person found this recipe to be delicious and satisfying. If you have ciabatta, olive oil, kosher salt and pepper, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 40

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Cut tops off garlic heads (enough to expose cloves) and discard.

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Clove

Garlic

Brush cut side of each garlic head with 1/2 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Salt And Pepper

Garlic

Place each garlic head on a sheet of foil; enclose in foil.

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Garlic

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Aluminum Foil

Bake 40 minutes.

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Remove foil packets, untwist tops, and drizzle each garlic head with another 1/2 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil. Return open garlic packets to oven and bake for 20 minutes.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Garlic

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Remove garlic from oven and increase heat to 45

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Garlic

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Squeeze garlic cloves from garlic heads (or pop cloves out with a knife) into a small bowl. Mash garlic with a fork.

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Garlic

Clove

Pop

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Bowl

Bake ciabatta slices on a baking sheet 6 to 8 minutes, or until well toasted, turning over once.

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Ciabatta

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Oven

Spread roasted garlic on toasts.

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Roasted Garlic

Spread

Drizzle with olio nuovo and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Serve immediately.

Types of Olive Oil

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Olive Oil

The USDA recently adopted these international standards for olive oil grades.

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Olive Oil

Extra-Virgin. The highest grade you can buy; the olives are pressed without using chemicals or adding heat, and they go through the press only once. To qualify as extra-virgin, the oil must also be free of specified taste "defects" and have less than 5 percent acidity.

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Olives

Cooking Oil

Olio Nuovo. Italian for "new oil," this is an extra-virgin oil less than 3 months old. Intensely green, with a pungent, vibrant taste, it quickly loses its bite, so use it right away. (Most California-produced brands of olio nuovo appear in late fall, soon after the harvest, and often sell out quickly.)

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Virgin. A lower grade than extra-virgin, lighter in flavor and higher in acidity.

Olive oil. Virgin oil blended, in varying ratios, with refined oil, which comes from olives that have already been pressed at least once; heat or chemicals may be used to extract more oil from the paste. Neutral in flavor and cheap.

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Olive Oil

Extract

Olives

Cooking Oil

Light. Refined oil with a small amount of virgin oil, if any; may also have other vegetable oils. "Light" doesn't mean lower in calories, just a lighter taste.

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Cooking Oil

Infused/flavored. Oil in which fruit or herbs were steeped. Can also mean the olives were pressed with fruit or herbs, or that fruit or herb oils were added to the oil after pressing; both methods result in a more intense flavor than the steeping.

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Fruit