Roasted Garlic White Edible Bean Dip

Some may mean value white beans are bland too unexciting, but non me.  I’ve had a smashing fourth dimension getting to know them ane time to a greater extent than this past times year.  It seems similar white beans brand everything better, or complete.  They add together that extra something to soups too vegetable dishes.  They’re filling too salubrious too are e'er willing to receive got on some extra flavour to attention out.  They blend inwards to almost whatever savory dish peculiarly when garlic is involved.  What tin you lot produce amongst White Bean Dip?  That is totally upwards to you.  Serve it slightly warm amongst sliced baguettes, fresh sliced tomatoes, cucumbers too onions.  Serve it mutual frigidness spread on crackers or on a sandwich instead of mayonnaise.  It’s a lot similar hummus too is smashing served amongst a pocketbook of chips.

 

I decided to brand mine heavy on the garlic because I simply dearest roasted garlic.  Garlic is a unopen cousin to the onion, some other ane of my favorite add-ins.  Roasting garlic is an slow too cheap mode to heart upwards flavour without beingness offensive. Set your oven to 350 degrees, cutting the operate past times off a garlic bulb too house it on a pocket-size patch of foil.  Drizzle amongst almost 1 teaspoon of olive stone oil too throw inwards some fresh herbs.  Bring the edges of the foil together at the operate past times too seal the packet.  Place the garlic inwards a pocket-size oven-proof dish too bake until the garlic is soft too popping out of the top, almost 45 minutes.  Once you lot outset to odor the baking garlic – range it a peek to banking concern fit for doneness.

 

Allow the garlic to cool until you’re able to grip the bulb too tin easily squeeze out the cloves into your nutrient processor.

 

Add the garlic, beans, parsley leaves, fresh thyme, lemon juice, spices too olive stone oil to the nutrient processor.  Pulse until the mixture is the consistency of hummus.  Add a piffling to a greater extent than olive stone oil if needed to sparse the mixture.

 

Cover the dip amongst plastic twine too shop inwards a warm house for almost xxx minutes to allow the flavors to meld.  I similar it served slightly warm – it simply seems right.

 

 

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Roasted Garlic White Bean Dip

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

Creamy white beans combined amongst oven roasted garlic for a hummus similar dip that is smashing served amongst vegetables, bread, crackers too chips. Use equally a flavorful stand-in for mayonnaise on your favorite sandwich.

Course:

Dip, Healthy, Vegan

Servings: 2 cup

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  1
  small bulb of garlic,
  1/4 of operate past times removed
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  olive oil
  


• 
  thyme sprigs
  


• 
  1
  (15-ounce) tin cannellini beans, drained too rinsed
  


• 
  4
  tablespoons
  olive oil,
  divided
  


• 
  Juice of 1/2 lemon,
  about 1 tablespoon
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  fresh Earth pepper
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  fresh thyme leaves
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  fresh parsley leaves
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  crushed ruddy pepper flakes
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   To roast the garlic, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the operate past times off the garlic bulb leaving the cloves intact. Place on a pocket-size patch of foil too drizzle amongst 1 teaspoon olive stone oil allowing it to soak downward into the garlic cloves. Add fresh thyme leaves to the foil too push clit the foil upwards over the operate past times too seal to brand a packet. Place inwards a pocket-size oven-proof dish too bake for almost 45 minutes or until the garlic is soft too fragrant. The cloves volition outset to popular out of the skins when done.
   
   


2. 
   
   Squeeze the roasted garlic into the bowl of a nutrient processor. Add the beans, iii tablespoons olive oil, the lemon juice, salt, pepper, thyme leaves, parsley too ruddy pepper flakes. Pulse until smooth.
   
   


3. 
   
   Serve topped amongst the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil.
   
   

Are you lot looking forwards to the weekend?  Are you lot planting flowers or vegetables?  We’re having some other pocket-size plow amongst wintertime weather condition but no worries.  This volition presently live gone too the Sun volition come upwards out again.  I am ready!  I’m too excited to larn into the kitchen too fix upwards some novel recipes to share.  Thanks then much for stopping by!

Tricia

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