Recipe - Vidalia Onion Dip

1 lg Vidalia onion
Vegetable spray
2 teaspoon Margarine, soy or safflower
Salt
Pepper; ground
1 tablespoon Pecans; chopped

With sharp knife, carefully peel onion and trim root end, leaving it
intact. Standing onion on its root end, cut parallel vertical slices at
1/4inch intervals into, but not through, onion, stopping aout One half inch
above root end. Rotate onion 90 degrees; cut parallel vertical slices in
same manner to form a crosshatch pattern, keeping onion intact. Coat
microwavesafe pie plate with vegetable spray. Place onion, root end down,
in center of pie plate. Drizzle with margarine, and season with salt and
pepper to taste.

Cover with waxed paper and microwave on High (100% power) 3 minutes. Baste
with cooking liquid and rotate dish. Cover and microwave on High 3 to 4
minutes longer, or until onion spreads open into a "flower." Sprinkle
flower with pecans; microwave on High 1 to 2 minutes longer, or until
flower appears translucent.
With wide spatula, remove onion flower from pie plate to serving plate.

Per serving: About 65 cal, 1 g pro, 12 g carb, 2 g fat, 28% cal from fat,
0 mg chol, 31 mg sod

From _LowFat Meals_ (Woman's Day) Vol III, Number 5

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini