Carmelized Onion And Cheese On Crostini Toasts
Recipe: #5914
July 13, 2012
Categories: Dairy, Cheese, Vegetables, Appetizers, Onions, Birthday, Entertaining, Labor Day, Ladies Luncheon, New Years, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake more
" These are so easy to put together. You may make the carmelized onion up to 5 days ahead of time. The crostini toasts will keep for weeks in a sealed container or in your freezer. The recipe was originally from Cooking.com with some modification from me. Taleggio is fifficult to find in my area. I relly don't know if I would Love the sharp heated (almost blue cheese flavour) so I used Danish Fontina - fabuslous - perfect flavour combination"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (828.4 g)
- Calories 2271.8
- Total Fat - 119.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 39.6 g
- Cholesterol - 310.4 mg
- Sodium - 3775.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 227.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10.7 g
- Sugars - 16.8 g
- Protein - 70.8 g
- Calcium - 978.5 mg
- Iron - 15.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.4 mg
- Thiamin - 2.9 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Paint one side of the baguette slices with olive oil, place on a baking sheet oil side up and bake at 350f for 7 minutes, remove from oven and cool. If you are not using the crostini now place in a sealed container for future use
Step 2
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a skillet, add sliced onions, medium heat, season with salt and pepper, stir fry until the onions begin to brown 6-8 minutes
Step 3
Add the 1/4 cup water to the onion continue cooking for about 10 minutes or until the water has evaporated and the onions are golden. You may now place it onions in a closed container in the fridge for future use or go on with the recipe
Step 4
5 minutes before you are ready to serve place the crostinis on a cookie sheet, place a slice of cheese on each bake in preheated 350 oven until the cheese has softened and melted
Step 5
Top with carmelized onions and serve warm
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.