Baked Stuffed Sweet Onions
"Sweet onions stuffed with ham, cremini mushrooms and Gruyere cheese. A summer must at our house when the new crop of sweet onions come on."
photo by PaulaG
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 2 medium sweet onions
- 1⁄4 teaspoon coarse salt, plus more for cooking water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided
- 3 ounces cremini mushrooms, cut into 1/2 inch pieces (4 or 5)
- 2 ounces ham, cut into 1/4 inch pieces
- 1⁄8 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons red wine (Madeira preferred)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1 ounce grated gruyere cheese (about 1/2 cup)
directions
- Preheat oven to 400°; peel onions and slice 1/2" from the top of each; discard; slice just enough from the bottoms to allow the onions to stand upright.
- Use a melon baller to hollow out the inside of each onion, leaving a 1/3" to 1/2" wall; set aside; chop the removed parts and set 1/2 cup aside; save the rest for another use.
- Gently add onions to a pot of boiling, salted water and boil for 5 minutes; remove with a slotted spoon and set aside to dry on a wire rack.
- Saute reserved chopped onions in 1/2 T oil until translucent, about 8 minutes; add mushrooms, ham and pepper and saute until browned, about 5 minutes.
- Deglaze pan with wine and pour mixture into a small bowl; let cool for 2 or 3 minutes; add the parsley and cheese and stir to combine.
- Stuff the onions; place in a small roasting pan and drizzle with remaining 1/2 T oil; cover with foil and bake until tender, about 50 minutes; remove foil 10 minutes before done and allow to brown.
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Reviews
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These are awesome. If I could rate them higher than 5, I would! I used Vidalia onions, Canadian bacon instead of ham and grape juice instead of red wine. Also, I did not precook the cored onions as suggested in the recipe. They were very tender and the amount of stuffing was perfect. Something I plan to serve again soon.
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These are awesome. If I could rate them higher than 5, I would! I used Vidalia onions, Canadian bacon instead of ham and grape juice instead of red wine. Also, I did not precook the cored onions as suggested in the recipe. They were very tender and the amount of stuffing was perfect. Something I plan to serve again soon.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
