I saw these made as a starter on a Come Dine With Me episode and thought that they sounded a really fun and unique way of serving onions. My mum loves onions in any way and with anything so I figured that she would love them even if they were a bit too much for me (I like onion in things but not really when you can tell there are onions). So I got looking for a recipe, but didn't find one that I really liked so I loosely adapted this one from Jamie Oliver.
Then leStart with peeling huge sized onions. I used small ones and it just wasn't right so go for the biggest ones that you can. I used red and white onions and both were yummy so choose dependent on your preference. Put them into boiling water and boil them for about 15 mins until they are soft. Then leave them to cool. Chop the tops off them, and trim the bottoms so that the onions can stand on their own. Scoop out the innards and then finely chop all of the extra onion. |
Put the chopped onions along with some garlic, chopped mushrooms (I used tinned because that was all we had, but I would definitely use fresh or frozen in the future) and fresh rosemary in some butter in a high sided frying pan and fry for a while. Then add some milk and simmer before adding some cheese.
Take the outer onions and place in a lightly oiled dish or on a baking tray. Scoop some of the fried mixture and put inside of the onions. Depending on how you want to serve the onions, you can leave it like that, or surround the onion with more of the mixture. You will have so much left over that you may want to put some in a separate dish for extra snacks. Put into the oven at about 200 degrees C.