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Roasted Garlic and Goat Cheese
Ingredients:
- one large head of garlic
- five marinated sun-dried tomatoes, minced.
- 1 ounce fresh basil chopped
- 1 package of goat cheese, approximately 6 ounces.
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Peel the garlic - removing the loose papery outside layers.
- trim enough off the top of the garlic to expose each bulb - but be careful not to loose too much of the bulb.
- Lay garlic on aluminum foil and generously drizzle with olive oil or the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes
- Seal the garlic in the foil and bake for about one hour. Garlic will be tender.
- Cool slightly and squeeze pulp from each clove into bowl.
- Add tomatoes and basil and mash entire mixture with a fork.
- Crumble the goat cheese cheese over the mixture and stir until well blended. Do not mash the cheese into the mixture.
- Roll into a log about 2 inches in diameter.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for anywhere from 3-10 hours.
- Slice the log to create cheese rounds and serve with baguette slices, toast triangles or crackers.
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