Roasted Red Pepper Spread
This Roasted Red Pepper Spread is made with homemade roasted peppers, roasted garlic, and basil. It's simple, easy, and perfect for spreading on sandwiches (or to add to a charcuterie board!).
Ingredients
- 3 red bell peppers cut in half, deseeded and desteamed
- 4-5 garlic cloves whole, unpeeled, and with the hard end cut off
- ½ cup fresh basil leaves
- ½ lemon juiced
- ½-1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Add the bell peppers to an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Drizzle with olive oil. Add the garlic cloves to a smaller square of foil. Drizzle with olive oil, then scrunch the foil to make sure the garlic cloves are in their own packet. Roast for ~40 minutes, checking the garlic at the 20 minute mark. If softened, remove. Let the peppers roast until charred, then remove and let everything cool until they can be handled.
- Once cooled, peel the pepper skins off. Add to a blender along with the roasted garlic (just squeeze the softened garlic directly into the blender, tossing the peels away), basil, lemon juice, and salt. Blend until smooth, then taste and add any salt, basil, or lemon juice as preferred.