Smoked Bacon Wrapped French Vidalia Onion
By
Sherri Williams
@logansw
9
Blue Ribbon Recipe
If you love grilled onions, then this is a recipe for you. The onion cooks until soft and full of smokiness. The bacon wrapped around the onion gets slightly crisp and smoky. Basting the onion during the cooking process not only adds flavor but it keeps the onion from drying out. The basting sauce adds so much savoriness. It's almost like a soup in the well of the onion. Gruyere cheese adds rich flavor and makes these wrapped onions seem fancy. So good!
Note: Lemon thyme can be hard to find. If it's unavailable, try fresh thyme and add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice to the basting sauce. Also, Vidalia onions are seasonal. Substitute a sweet yellow onion if out of season.
The Test Kitchen
Ingredients
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4Vidalia onions (small-medium)
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2 Tbspextra virgin olive oil
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1 1/2 TbspMontreal seasoning
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4 slicethick bacon
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4 ozGruyere, slice & torn; more if you like
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2 Tbspflat leaf parsley, chopped
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BASTING SAUCE
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3/4 cbeef broth
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1/4 cdry vermouth
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1/4 tsplemon thyme
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1/2 TbspMontreal seasoning