Onion Crème Brûlée
Recipe: #17317
February 11, 2015
"Like most of us, I often “feast w/my eyes” & the pic of this recipe definitely invited a feast. This was found in *Birta* (Icelandic version of the TV Guide) & may well be the most creative & unique recipe I've run across by accident. I did not know that a savory crème brûlée even existed. BUT as a tasty side-dish, this would work w/almost every main entrée & also be a great source of table talk to boot. A must try! Enjoy!"
Original recipe yields 2 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (223.3 g)
- Calories 349.1
- Total Fat - 17.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.6 g
- Cholesterol - 142.3 mg
- Sodium - 263.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 40.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.7 g
- Sugars - 31.4 g
- Protein - 8.8 g
- Calcium - 64.3 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 11.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 200C. Peel onion, leaving the root-end intact. Cut the non-root end top from the onion & trim the root-end slightly to allow the onion shell to sit flat.
Step 2
Remove as much of the inside pulp as possible w/o tearing the shell & set the onion top + inside pulp aside. Bake shell in the oven for 10 min. Do not turn off the oven.
Step 3
Rough chop the onion top + inside pulp. In a non-stick skillet, combine the chopped onion w/sugar + cayenne pepper & simmer till soft. Add cream + egg yolk, stir to mix well & remove from heat.
Step 4
Mound onion mixture into the onion shells & bake for 7 min. Allow to slightly cool, sprinkle w/crumbled bacon (if using) & serve immediately w/entrée of choice.
NOTE: For those of you who might be put off by the process for preparing the onion shells, this can easily be prepared & served in ramekins
Tips & Variations
- No special items are required
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