Recipe - Vidalias Baked Onion With Ham

8 tablespoon Butter; softened
4 tablespoon Brown sugar
4 teaspoon Fresh thyme; chopped
4 teaspoon Fresh rosemary; chopped
4 tablespoon Fresh garlic; chopped
6 tablespoon Brown veal glaze; or
bouillon
8 tablespoon Sherry vinegar
4 Jumbo vidalia onions; whole
4 Squares aluminum foil;
12"x12"
8 Fresh shiitake mushrooms;
quartered
4 ounce Country ham; cut in thin
strips
4 tablespoon Tomato; blanched and
; chopped fine
4 teaspoon Capers
4 teaspoon Chives; finely minced

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2. Peel onion skin in 1/4inch strips from the flower end back to root end
of onion leaving intact at root. Place One fourth of each of the first five
ingredients in the center of each piece of foil. Place onion on top in
center of foil with the root end facing up. Pull the strips of skin up and
draw the foil from the four corners to the center like a pyramid. Lightly
crimp the foil around the "neck" of the onion with skins pulled straight
up. Pour veal glaze and vinegar into the foil.

3. Bake in oven for about one hour and 10 min. or until soft. Remove onion
from foil and place onto serving plates. Reserve the juices.

4. Heat a medium saute pan. Add 2 Tbsp. butter, Shiitake mushrooms and
country ham. Saute until mushrooms soften. Add the reserved juice from the
baked onions, tomato, capers, and chives. Season to taste.

Copyright credit: Jeff Buben, 1996 © 1996 Lifetime Entertainment Services.
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