Onions as a main or side dish

[CraigC]

Do you ever make a main dish or side dish with onions as the featured ingredient? Onion soup comes to mind and onion loaf.

 

[Morning Glory]

Great question. Not often enough would be my response. French onion soup is a first rate example.

 

[medtran49]

We make a sweet onion tart that has herbs in the crust. I need to find that recipe too. Still haven't found my favorite creme brulee recipe and I'm running out of places to look.

 

[Morning Glory]

We make a sweet onion tart that has herbs in the crust. I need to find that recipe too. Still haven't found my favorite creme brulee recipe and I'm running out of places to look.

Co-incidentally I'm making an onion and cheese tart today. Its in the oven.

 

[medtran49]

Co-incidentally I'm making an onion and cheese tart today. Its in the oven.

The onion tart recipe is in my cache too.

 

[Master Cutler]

Using onion as a main dish, I like to remove the centre from red onions and stuff them with Brie and cranberry, then bake them in a 200 deg C oven for about 10 minutes until the Brie is just starting to bubble.
Then serve them with oven fresh fresh baguettes.

 

[rascal]

I fry 2 whole onions with butter and mustard seeds for home made American hot dogs, and also steak sammiches.
They all get eaten.

Russ

 

[Morning Glory]

Using onion as a main dish, I like to remove the centre from red onions and stuff them with Brie and cranberry, then bake them in a 200 deg C oven for about 10 minutes until the Brie is just starting to bubble.
Then serve them with oven fresh fresh baguettes.

I love this idea - but is 10 minutes enough to cook that onion through?

 

[rascal]

I buy my onions from the same place I buy potatoes. It's an honesty box at a farm. They have pallets of stuff under cover. I buy 10 kg bags of agria potatoes and buy 5kg onions every second time. They also sell whole pumpkins for $3.

Russ

 

[Yorky]

Onion bhaji springs to mind. I haven't had those for an age.

I used to love the onion loaf served in "Chicago Rib Shack" in London but that was back in the 90s.

"Spuds and onions" were a favourite in Delaney's Irish Bar in Kuala Lumpur. I've never been able to emulate that dish.

French Onion Soup, a meal in itself.

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It would be a strange gastronomic world without onion gravy.

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And, of course, the natural topping for hot dogs.

 

[rascal]

And onions with nibbles, every year I make curried onions, usually about 40 to 50 kg a year. I know that sounds a lot, but it gets traded for other stuff. It is really sought after by my friends. This year I only made 20kgs, so I'm cutting back on giving away freebies of my onions.

Russ

 

[rascal]

Onion bhaji springs to mind. I haven't had those for an age.

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I used to love the onion loaf served in "Chicago Rib Shack" in London but that was back in the 90s.

"Spuds and onions" were a favourite in Delaney's Irish Bar in Kuala Lumpur. I've never been able to emulate that dish.

French Onion Soup, a meal in itself.

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It would be a strange gastronomic world without onion gravy.

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And, of course, the natural topping for hot dogs.

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My wife loves French onion soup. I must make it again.

Russ

 

[Yorky]

And onions with nibbles, every year I make curried onions, usually about 40 to 50 kg a year. I know that sounds a lot, but it gets traded for other stuff. It is really sought after by my friends. This year I only made 20kgs, so I'm cutting back on giving away freebies of my onions.

Russ

Which reminds me, a ploughman's lunch without pickled onions wouldn't be right.

 

[GadgetGuy]

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Here are some caramelized onions for some French Onion Soup.

 

[epicuric]

A couple of days ago I spotted a recipe that took my interest - tempura battered spring onions.