Recipe - Blooming Onion

1 Sweet onion (texas, vidalia,
walla walla or maui)
Water
1 Egg, beaten
1 cup Cracker crumbs or coating
mix
2 tablespoon Flour
Oil for deep frying

THE DIP
One half cup Mayonnaise
One half cup Sour cream
One half cup Thousand island dressing
2 tablespoon Horseradish

select a well rounded onion. peel out skin off. leave root intact; cut off
any hanging roots. using a small, sharp knife, divide onion into four
sections by making 2 cuts crosswise, beginning at the top and cutting
toward the root, stopping about One half inch away. cut each section twice.
Place onion in bowl of enough boiling water to cover it and leave it for 5
minutes. the sections, or "petals" will begin to open. remove onion from
hot water and immerse into ice waaer, to help the opening. drain well by
turning upside down on paper towel. Put flour into paper bag, add onion and
shake gently to coat with flour. roll floured onion in beaten egg to cover.
Put cracker crumbs or coating mix in paper bag, add onion and shake gently
to coat. refrigerate for 1 hour before deep frying in oil to golden brown.
3 to 5 mintues. cooked onion may be kept for a time in warm oven. the
"outback Steakhouse" serves this with a delicious hothot sauce to dunk in.
they also add hot spices to the flour and/or coating mix.

Typos by Kath and Stu Pickell
http://www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~pickell/recipe.html
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #323

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:02:35 0500

From: Walt Gray waltgray@mnsinc.com