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Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes

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Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your source for recipes from scratch around weekly sales and affordable ingredients. Earlier this week, my local produce store had artichokes on sale three for $1.00. I rarely buy fresh artichokes, but certainly could not pass that up, right?

On the rare occasions I do buy artichokes, I usually just steam them and then we dip the leaves in butter before scraping the artichoke “meat” off the leaves with our handy dandy teeth. This time I wanted to try something a little more flavorful, so found this recipe for roasting whole artichokes on Pinch My Salt and decided to give it a go.

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The verdict? Easy, gorgeous, and delicious! Next time I might try adding some fresh garden herbs for an extra pop of flavor, but these were fantastic as is, sans butter. Plus, this is a really affordable side dish when your local produce store puts artichokes on sale.

Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes

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Ingredients

3 small fresh artichokes
1 small head garlic
1 lemon
Olive oil
Kosher salt

Directions

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Using a large serrated knife, cut about 1/4-1/3 off the top of each artichoke, then flip them over and cut off the stems. Aren’t they just beautiful inside? You don’t see this when steaming a whole one!

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Without the stems, they sit flat nicely. Peel your garlic cloves, then use your fingers to spread out and separate the artichoke leaves slightly. Shove about four garlic cloves in between the leaves of each artichoke, cutting them in half to fit if you have small artichokes and large garlic.

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Now cut yourself three pieces of foil, each big enough to wrap around an artichoke. Drizzle a little olive oil in the center of each sheet, then place  an artichoke stem side down on each sheet. Drizzle each artichoke with fresh lemon juice (I used 1/4 of the lemon on each) and olive oil, then sprinkle with a little Kosher salt. Wrap the foil around each artichoke, place in a baking pan, and bake at 425 for one hour.

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Unwrap to reveal your roasted artichoke in all its glory! Eat the garlic first, because it is irresistible, and then enjoy your perfectly roasted artichoke — yes, you still have to scrape the meat off the leaves with your handy dandy teeth, but it’s SO good.

How easy was that?

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You’ll know it’s done if the leaves pull out easily and your artichokes are nicely browned. Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes are almost as easy as steaming, and much more flavorful, not to mention pretty — I vow never to steam them again!

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(Although Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes are naturally dairy and gluten free, Junior High Guy wanted nothing to do with them — nor did his brother. All the more for us grown-ups, then…)

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Easy Garlic Roasted Artichokes

Course side
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 3

Ingredients

  • 3 small fresh artichokes
  • 1 small head garlic
  • 1 lemon
  • Olive oil
  • Kosher salt

Instructions

  • Using a serrated knife, cut about 1/4-1/3 off the top of each artichoke, then flip them over and cut off the stems.
  • Peel your garlic cloves, then use your fingers to spread out and separate the artichoke leaves slightly.
  • Shove about four garlic cloves in between the leaves of each artichoke, cutting them in half to fit if you have small artichokes and large garlic.
  • Now cut yourself three pieces of foil, each big enough to wrap around an artichoke.
  • Drizzle a little olive oil in the center of each sheet, then place  an artichoke stem side down on each sheet.
  • Drizzle each artichoke with fresh lemon juice (I used 1/4 of the lemon on each) and olive oil, then sprinkle with a little Kosher salt.
  • Wrap the foil around each artichoke, place in a baking pan, and bake at 425 for one hour.
  • Unwrap to reveal your roasted artichoke in all its glory!
Recipe Rating




Outlander

Thursday 21st of August 2014

I bought 3 yesterday at Caputo's. They were pretty big, 2/$1. I'll try this now. P.S. I found beautiful, brand new, blue salt and pepper shakers at Goodwill for $0.49 each. They would go great with your Goodwill containers. :)

rachel

Thursday 21st of August 2014

Hand 'em over. ;) But no, really, let me know what you think! And shoot, I was down at the Westmont Jewel today and forgot to swing down the road to Caputo's.

Outlander

Sunday 3rd of August 2014

I never cooked artichokes (or eaten them for that matter), but I did see on TV once how people from some famous restaurant cooked them. Start preparing the same as you, cutting the top off, but then spread the leaves as much as you can without braking it up. Top with Italian seasoned bread crumbs (or make any mixture of seasoning you like in the bread crumbs), stuff the crumb mixture in between the leaves, drizzle with a bit of EVOO and bake. Looked good. :)

Kari O.

Sunday 3rd of August 2014

If you ever do eat an artichoke, please read this article. http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/arturo_carvajal_sues_north_mia.php And don't eat all the leaves whole!

Kari O.

Sunday 3rd of August 2014

I will most definitely try this! I really suck at steaming artichokes and every time burn them and/or scorch the pot. Keeping water boiled is tough. I don't have the patience. lol

Jane

Sunday 3rd of August 2014

Is that the olive oil you got from Ultras last sale? I got the yellow bottle, but I see your bottle says "Special Edition" Whoa....and I thought mine was very good, possibly the best tasting EVOO I've ever had. I just used some in a pasta primavera dish and noticed how much more fragrant this oil is from others. I think the last kind I bought was from Sams Club or Walmart in the huge jugs but now I'm rethinking EVOO. This Goya is fabulous!

rachel

Sunday 3rd of August 2014

This I actually picked up on one of the Dominick's clearance sales -- it's really good!