Roasted Potato Hearts With Garlic Dipping Sauce Food

ROASTED POTATO HEARTS WITH GARLIC DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• For the heart potatoes:
• Preheat oven to 400
• Wash and slice potatoes
• Cut into heart shapes with cookie cutter
• Coat with olive oil
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper
• Roast for 1 hour, until browned
• Sprinkle with parsley
• For the garlic dipping sauce:
• Add all ingredients into a bowl, stir to combine

MIDDLE EASTERN GARLIC SAUCE

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain and transfer to a bowl; mash until smooth. Set aside to cool.
• Put garlic, salt, and lemon juice in a blender or food processor; pour in enough oil to lightly coat garlic cloves. Blend mixture on high; slowly stream remaining oil through the top opening of the blender or food processor until mixture is smooth. Add mashed potatoes, about 2 to 3 tablespoons at a time, to the garlic mixture while blender is still running. Continue adding potatoes until all are incorporated. Transfer sauce to a bowl and refrigerate until chilled, 1 hour to overnight.

ROASTED POTATOES WITH GARLIC AIOLI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 F degrees.
• Cut up the potatoes into wedges. In a baking dish add the potatoes, season with the salt, pepper and paprika and toss them in the olive oil. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes to an hour or until crispy and golden brown. Do not turn them, they will be crispy on both sides.
• In the mean time, combine the garlic, egg, lemon juice, parsley, salt and pepper in a food processor or blender and puree. Add the oil in a slow stream and continue to process until the mixture has formed a thick emulsion.
• Serve potatoes drizzled with the garlic aioli, or as a dipping sauce.

STEAMED ARTICHOKES AND ROASTED GARLIC DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut off the bottom stems of the artichokes with a serrated knife and rub the artichoke bottoms with the lemon. Cut about 2 inches off the top of the artichoke, drizzle some lemon juice over the top as well.
• Optional: Using kitchen scissors, snip off prickly ends of each leaf for easier enjoyment later.
• Place the artichokes in a steamer and steam 40 to 50 minutes, or until the bottoms are tender when pierced and the leaves pulls out easily. When it's done, quickly plunge into a bowl of iced water to stop the cooking and drain.
• While steaming the artichokes, prepare the garlic for the sauce: Cut off top of garlic bulb (enough to expose tops of most garlic cloves). Drizzle enough olive oil over the cut cloves to drench the top and sides, sprinkle a pinch of salt as well. Wrap foil around the garlic bulb and seal at the top. Roast in 400 degree oven (I use my little toaster oven) for about 30-40 minutes until soft and roasted, browned around the tops and edges is a good indicator. Let it cool for about 10 minutes.
• When cool enough to handle, squeeze the garlic cloves from their bulbs by pressing with your hands from the bottom of the bulbs to the top (cut side) into a small bowl. Add the mayonnaise and sour cream, and stir with fork to blend well. Add salt if needed and black pepper to taste. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
• To eat the artichoke, pull the leaves and dip the bottom tender part into the sauce, pull the tender "meat" with your teeth on the bottom part of the leaves, don't eat (discard) the rough tops. Towards the inside you can bite off more of the tender bottoms of the leaves. Towards the heart of the artichoke, you will see pins and needle-like fuzzy stuff which you can scrape off with a spoon, then you can eat the best part of all, the center or "heart" of the artichoke.

AWESOME ROASTED POTATOES WITH SOUR CREAM DIP

Steps:

• Wash and chunk potatoes. Can peel if you want. I usually don't.
• Mix all ingredients except the parmesan cheese and toss with potatoes.
• Pour into a baking dish.
• Marinade for 30 minutes.
• Bake at 350 for 60 minutes or until fork tender.
• Sprinkle with the cheese just before serving.
• Time depends on size of potatoes.
• NOTE: Depending on your personal likes you can mix the potatoes and oil/seasoings in a bowl,marinade then just spoon the potatoes into an oiled or sprayed baking dish and then drizzle with as much of the oil/seasoning mixtue as you would like to use.
• Sour Cream Dip.
• Mix all ingredients. Chill for an hour.

ROASTED GARLIC DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut off top of garlic bulb to expose most of the garlic cloves.
• Put the bulb in an oven-safe small dish or on top of a sheet of foil.
• Drizzle olive oil on the tops of the garlic cloves, add more if needed to drench the tops and sides of the whole bulb. Sprinkle some salt on the top of the bulb on the oil.
• Wrap or seal up the garlic bulb with foil.
• Roast in oven at 400°F for 30-40 minutes, until tops and sides are browned and roasted.
• Take out of the oven and cool for 10 minutes.
• When cooled enough to handle, squeeze out the garlic cloves from the root or the bottom of the bulb, into a small bowl.
• Add mayonnaise and sour cream, using a fork, stir until blended.
• Add pepper to taste, and salt if needed.