Filled onions

 

Ingredients (serves 4):

• 4 onions
• 300/500 gr sausage or minced meat
• 1 egg
• pepper 
• salt
• Bread crumbles

How to make it:

1. Blanch the onions in salty water for some minutes (about 5);
2. Remove the onions from water and let them cool;
3. Cut the "cap" from the onions and leave it apart;
4. Empty the onions with a spoon and mince the pulp;
5. Brown the onions with some oil in a pan for a couple of minutes;
6. Add the minced meat/ sausage ( cut sausage into small pieces), brown it too.
7. Add salt and pepper. Once it's ready, let it cool.
8. Now add the egg and the bread crumbles, mix it with a spoon and also with your hands.
9. Place the onions on a baking tin or a casserole and fill them with the mixture.
10. Sprinkle some bread crumble on each of them,  pour some oil on, and cover them with the cap you previously cutted.
11. Bake them at 200°C for about 50 min/1 hour.

Enjoy!

Annalisa

Tropea red onions au gratin

 

What will you need: 

•  8 middle sized tropea red onions
• 400 gr bread crumble
• 50 gr pecorino cheese
• 1 dl extra virgin olive oil
• salt, pepper and parsley

How to make it:

• Peel the onions and cut them into slices 
• Put the onions slice in a saucepan with some oil, and cook them on a low heat.
• In another pan, prepare a mixture with the breadcrumble, the oil, salt, pepper, pecorino cheese and parsley.
• Pour the mixture in the saucepan which contains the onions and cook au gratin for 40 minutes, on a low/ medium heat.

Enjoy!