Onion Recipes
Onion Recipes
Here are some recipes to turn those onions into tasty meals.
Onion-Apple Casserole
What You’ll Need:
- 6 medium onions
- 4 medium apples
- 8 slices of bacon
- 2/3 cup bread crumbs
- ¾ c water
- ½ tsp salt
What To Do:
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Peel and slice the onions 1/8 (3mm) inch thick.
- Peel and core the apples. Cut into 1/8 inch (3mm) thick slices.
- Cut the bacon into small pieces and fry in a pan until lightly crispy.
- Add bread crumbs to the bacon in the pan and stir in.
- Grease a baking dish and arrange the onions, apples and bacon with crumbs in alternating layers. Finishing with a thin layer of bacon and most of the bread crumbs.
- Dissolve the salt in the water and pour over the top layer in the baking dish.
- Sprinkle a few bread crumbs on top.
- Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the cover. Cook another 15 minutes.
- Enjoy
Hint:
We use a variation on this without the bacon and crumbs to make a nice sugarless desert using tart apples and a little bit of cinnamon and allspice. Serve it up warm, topped with thick cream or vanilla ice cream.
Cheesy Onion Casserole
For a quick healthy snack try this simple spread. It goes well on dark rye bread, pumpernickel or pieces of pita bread.
What You’ll Need:
- ½ c milk
- ¼ c butter
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 ½ lbs (¾ kg) onions
- 2 egg yolks
- ½ c sour cream
- 1 c Old Cheddar Cheese
- 1/3 c dry bread crumbs
What To Do:
- Peel onions and cut into thick slices.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Melt butter in a sauce pan and add milk, salt and pepper. Add onion and cook about 15 minutes, until just tender.
- Pour onion mixture into a 1 liter casserole dish.
- Mix together beaten egg yolks, sour cream, and shredded cheese. Pour this mixture over the onions.
- Sprinkle the bread crumbs over top.
- Cook in 350F oven for 12 minutes.
- Let cool 5 minutes. Enjoy.
Mushroom-Stuffed Onions
What You’ll Need:
- 6 large onions
- 1 c chopped fresh mushrooms
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 Tblsp butter
- 1 c stuffing mix seasoned with herbs
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp crushed dried thyme
- shredded Parmesan cheese
What To Do:
- Cook onions about 15 minutes so centers pop up.
- Scoop out the center of each onion leaving a couple outer rings.
- Chop up the onion centers.
- Heat butter in a large fry pan and add chopped mushrooms and lemon juice. Stir and cook until lightly browned and tender.
- Mix chopped onions into mushroom mixture along with salt, thyme and stuffing mix.
- Spoon the mix into the onion shells and sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top.
- Set onions in a shallow baking dish. Add boiling water to ¼ deep. Bake at 350F until onions are tender, about 35 minutes.
