What's your favorite recipe out there that really champions onions?
I'm putting together a new podcast with Food52 on food stories from the F52 community (i.e. you)! One of our first episodes will be on onions, and as I was trawling through recipes, I realized that onions are often used as a background flavor, and there are so few recipes out there that really champion the flavor (and texture) of onions themselves. Was wondering if anyone had any nice recipes with onions as the star?
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My french host mother would make it ever so often for dinner. Sear chicken thighs in pan, add 2 sliced (or more!) large onions to pan w/ fresh rosemary + thyme, cover and cook for 40 minutes - serve w/ bread to mop up the sweet onion sauce. Any onions will do! Red for something jammier and sweeter.
Take a yellow or white onion, and cut off the root end and stem end latitudinally, leaving on the papery outside layers of the onion. Cut out a concavity on the top of the onion, sprinkle it with dried thyme (or other herbs) plus salt and pepper to taste, and put 1 Tbsp. of butter in the concavity on top of the herbs. Place in a small baking dish and bake for 45 minutes at 400 F; slide the onion out of the papery exterior layers onto a plate, you are ready for serving.
If you do not care for all the herbs, you can just use thyme, or whatever herbs you prefer- rosemary, savory, cheril, marjoram, etc.
Anyway- that's how I do it. In the summer, instead of baking it in the oven, we toss it on the grill. That's the best tasting way, providing the season permits.
Also baked stuffed onions (various Italian recipes) and roasted onions, both to use as side dishes.