Once it's cooked, let it cool enough to touch.You want the top to look brown and caramelised. Roast in the oven on a tray for 40 - 50 mins.Drizzle with olive oil and wrap up in aluminium foil.Slice the top off, just enough to expose the tops of the cloves.Peel the outer papery layers off the bulbs (I actually forgot to do that here!) It just makes squeezing the garlic out at the end much easier.

It caramelises and turns the garlic into a sweet creamy ingredient you can add to anything! It is really simple, here is the process. Roasting whole garlic bulbs is not only super easy, it's crazy delicious. You can cut out the step of using a colander and washing all that liquid gold down the sink. Save some pasta water - I always transfer my pasta straight into the sauce from the pot with a spider strainer so the pasta water is left behind for me to use as I wish.It creates much finer strands that melt into sauces much easier. Grating the parmesan - I usually say to grate your parmesan with a microplane (or the star side of a box grater).If using an orecchiette or gnocchi sardithen you don't need to worry as it's pretty hard to overcook fresh shapes like that. I really do love letting the pasta bubble away in the sauce for a minute or two so undercook your pasta by a minute or so.

If using dried pasta - undercook it slightly.

Make sure you let them cool before squeezing the cloves out! Keep checking it every 5 or 10 mins if it isn't done by the 45 min mark.

Roasting the garlic - You want to roast the garlic so it is just starting to brown and caramelise.

Use fresh lemon! Please don't use bottled lemon juice, fresh is best every time and nothing else will do!.

It is a way to get a good flavour base going.

Brown the butter a touch - If I ever use butter as the base for a sauce I let it gently brown before adding anything else.

I have used a homemade orecchiette but it will work with absolutely any pasta shape! Tips for the best roast garlic and lemon pasta sauce It pretty much contains all my favourite flavours in one sauce! Roast garlic is added to foamy butter with lots of pepper, lemon and lemon zest then rounded off with cream and parmesan. Hi! I am writing up the recipe for this new easy creamy roast garlic and lemon pasta sauce. A simple and quick pasta sauce to bring together once you have roasted the garlic. A combination of sweet roast garlic, zingy lemon, pepper and parmesan makes this a truly delicious and luscious sauce. A simple creamy pasta sauce packed with flavour.

Squeeze garlic paste