44-Clove Garlic Soup

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Sometimes, I wonder if my taste buds have developed an immunity to garlic because I eat it so often. I always tend to double the amount of garlic in a recipe and I find that “too garlicky” is not a phrase in my lexicon (much like “too sweet”). I’ve been meaning to make this soup for ages because it’s pretty much pure garlic. In two forms! About half the garlic is roasted, giving it a mellow, sweet flavor, and the rest is quickly sauteed and then simmered with the stock to make a slightly more noticeable garlic flavor but nothing overwhelming. I know that 44 cloves of garlic sounds like a whole lot for one little batch of soup, but trust me on this.

Normally, I’m not a huge fan of soup without some…stuff…in it (which is why I’ve never warmed to tomato soup). It stands to reason that this wouldn’t really be my thing, but since I love garlic—especially roasted—so much, I knew I’d like this soup. And I was right (as I always am. Ahem.) As an added bonus, because there are no carbs in this soup, you can pair it with a super cheesy & delicious panini, which I always want to do when I eat soups but typically avoid since the soup tends to already have pasta or potatoes or croutons or what have you.

Tom liked this recipe so much that when he went grocery shopping the following week, he asked what ingredients he needed to make it himself (of course, he didn’t actually go through with it but, you know, it still says something).

I made this soup up to the point of blending it, but then I refrigerated it. The next day, I just heated it on the stove, added the cream, and it was ready to go. The soup is easy enough to make (incredibly easy, actually), but since the garlic  needs time to roast, making it in full on a weeknight isn’t really feasible for us. Soups, thankfully, are great as leftovers or when they’ve been sitting, so this is a perfect make-ahead recipe if you want to enjoy it on a weeknight.

44-Clove Garlic Soup

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14 thoughts on “44-Clove Garlic Soup

  1. We also suffer from garlic immunity over here. And I laaa-huuuuuuuuuuuve this soup. The last few times we’ve made it, we did add celery/onion/carrot and a few potatoes too just to make it a bit more substantial, and I enjoyed it that way too. Can’t go wrong with 44 cloves of garlic. This was the one recipe we actually didn’t double. 88 would have been just too much.

  2. I have never found a garlic soup that I truly love, will definitely have to try this one. I too think a dish can never have too much garlic. 🙂

  3. I’ve had my eye on this soup forever and really need to make it. I have the same issue you describe with soups – I like a little texture in them. But, unlike you, I looove tomato soup. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had tomato soup with macaroni noodles in it. I’ve just started replacing the noodles with navy beans, because tomato soup without grilled cheese is just sad, and like you, I try not to double-carb at dinner!

  4. Love that recipe! The lemon adds a wonderful flavor. Instead of using individual cloves I roast whole bulbs … 3-4. I find it makes squeezing much faster.

  5. Wow! Pretty much sums this up. Perfect for a snowy week, I substituted fat free sour cream for the half and half. Not so much for calories but because I had it on hand. And just I had this much garlic at home when I decided to make it. 🙂

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