Italian Stuffed Onions
Ingredients
4 large onions | ||
kosher salt | ||
2 oz mortadella | ||
6 oz cooked beets | ||
2 eggs | ||
3 tbs bread crumbs | ||
4 tbs fresh Parmesan cheese | ||
10 tbs extra virgin olive oil, divided | ||
black pepper | ||
1 cup canned diced tomatoes |
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
- Add salt and the onions and cook for 15 minutes.
- Drain, then set the onions aside to cool.
- Slice each onion into 1/2 horizontally and remove some of the inner layers from each half to make 8 onion shells.
- Chopp the removed onion layers, the mortadella, and beets.
- Add them to a bowl together with the eggs, bread crumbs, Parmesan and 4 tbs of olive oil.
- Season with salt and pepper and mix well.
- Fill the onion shells with the mortadella mixture and arrange them in an oven safe baking dish.
- Cover with the tomatoes, drizzle with the remaining olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Transfer to the oven and bake for 40 minutes.
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