Recipe - Roasted Onions Stuffed With Prosciutto And Parmesan

4 md Onions
2 tablespoon Olive oil
1 One half cup Dry white wine
Salt and pepper; to taste
2 Sprigs fresh thyme
2/3 cup Breadcrumbs
One half cup Parmesan cheese; grated
One fourth pound Prosciutto; coarsely chopped
1 One half teaspoon Fresh thyme; chopped
1 tablespoon Fresh flatleaf parsley;
chopped

Heat the oven to 425. Slice off the top quarter of the onions. Peel them
and trim the bottoms just enough to make them sit flat. Heat the oil in a
heavybased ovenproof skillet until hot. Put the onions, cut side down,
into the pan and cook just the cut side until well brownd, about 5 min.
Take the pan off the heat. Turn the onions cut side up and pour the wine
over them. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Add the thyme sprigs to the
pan and bake the onions until just tender when poked with a knife, about 1
hour. Remove the onions from the skillet (reserving the liquid in the pan)
and let them cool slightly. With a spoon, scoop ou the inside of each
onion, leaving a rim One fourth to One half inch thick (aobut 2 layers of onion). Chop
enough of the scoopedout onion to make about 1/3 cup. In a medium bowl,
mix the chopped onion with the breadcrumbs, parmesan, prosciutto, cream,
chopped thyme, and parsely. Season with salt and pepper. Divide the filling
among the hollowed onions, return the onions to the skillet with the
liquid, and put the skillet back in the oven. Bake until the onions are
very tender and the filling is hot, about 20 min. Serve with some of the
pan juices spooned over the onions.

Per serving: 251 Calories; 12g Fat (57% calories from fat); 13g Protein; 7g
Carbohydrate; 28mg Cholesterol; 1505mg Sodium

NOTES : This is a great side dish for braised or roasted meats.

Recipe by: Gordon Hamersley

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #907 by Lisa Minor lisa@cybermill.com on
Nov 13, 1997