How do you stuff an onion?

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Xochi

I only ask because I went to a Lebanese restaurant last night.

So when I'd had all my choices in the menu turned down because they weren't available, I opted for the the baked veg option. They were all yum. I'm not a veggie but often choose this option and indeed the stuffed pepper and aubergine and courgettes were great!

Except for the stuffed onion! It was horrible!

So I kind of started to wonder. Is the reason I'd never eaten a stuffed onion was because they tasted horrible or because it must be impossible to empty an onion in order to stuff it and therefore they aren't offered for our delectation?! I mean, how the hell do you cut up an union in order to empty it out and how doesn't it fall apart as soon as you have?! My onion looked intact apart from a stuffing entry (but it still tasted horrible)!

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Karma_Member

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So when I'd had all my choices in the menu turned down because they weren't available

Was it run by the Salvation Army or summat?? What kind of restaurant is that? PAH!

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stuffed pepper and aubergine and courgettes were great!

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Is the reason I'd never eaten a stuffed onion was because they tasted horrible or because it must be impossible to empty an onion in order to stuff it and therefore they aren't offered for our delectation?! I mean, how the hell do you cut up an union in order to empty it out and how doesn't it fall apart as soon as you have?!

I don't know. If you'd asked where to stuff the onion I could have maybe been more helpful. Ah. Saying that about how to empty an onion though, I know with the small onions you get in the jar you can somehow take it apart and be left with the outer skin, same with the fish and chip shop larger onions, but as for the type in restaurants, I ain't got a Danny love

9/26/107:01 PM

charlisockMember

After searching on Yahoo extensive research, apparently you cut the top of the onion off, scoop the middle out then stuff it.

9/26/107:06 PM

Karma_Member

Blimey you'd be crying rivers

Who'd wanna do that for a living?

9/26/107:07 PM

XochiMember Memoriam

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Was it run by the Salvation Army or summat?? What kind of restaurant is that? PAH!

A declining area in a bit of London you may be roughly familiar with Karms!

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I know with the small onions you get in the jar you can somehow take it apart and be left with the outer skin,

That's the issue. It was the size of a... well... normal onion!

9/26/107:08 PM

XochiMember Memoriam

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After searching on Yahoo extensive research, apparently you cut the top of the onion off, scoop the middle out then stuff it.

It looked like that Charli, thanks, but I want to know how in the scooping it doesn't go horribly wrong!

9/26/107:10 PM

charlisockMember

I dunno... maybe you need to be a really talented chef to master it!

And Karma does have a point... my eyes would sting like $h!t after one onion!

Anyway, happy onion-stuffing. I'm turning in for the night

9/26/107:13 PM

Karma_Member

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A declining area in a bit of London you may be roughly familiar with Karms!

It's definitely a possibility

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That's the issue. It was the size of a... well... normal onion!

Ohhhh! You should have asked them. Did you get a discount seeing as they had nothing available except for stuffed veg or a packed lunch with an apple and a kit-kat? (Still rather 3am gobsmacked at that!)

9/26/107:16 PM

XochiMember Memoriam

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And Karma does have a point... my eyes would sting like $h!t after one onion! Anyway, happy onion-stuffing. I'm turning in for the night

Yep. Thats another reason for this area of stuffed cuisine to be ignored.

And I'm off too now. Still curious though...

9/26/107:17 PM

Karma_Member

Maybe the onion was sauteed first to make scooping much easier? Or maybe Metal Mickey was the scooper outer-in-chief? I'm bloody puzzled now too

(Night Charli! x)

9/26/107:18 PM

Karma_Member

I'm also turning in. I was looking forward to reading how Kerry Katona is broke and moving back up north in OK magazine but now I'm gonna pondering onions and will probably dream of a giant one with lots of legs and arms and big teeth with the insides flying out of it and it's chasing me round the corner shop and it will be all your fault

Gute Nacht!

xx

9/26/107:21 PM

XochiMember Memoriam

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Maybe the onion was sauteed first to make scooping much easier?

Last night dash back to post!

Yes! That is probable!

Still tasted shoite!

9/26/107:22 PM

Former Member

I am a Contact lens wearer and I can scoop chop and cut onions with impunity. This may be because the eye has some protection from the lens.

9/27/1012:11 AM

CroctacusMember

Roasted Onions are better anyway.

9/27/101:53 AM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

Remove the stringy outer layers of the onions, then cut off a very thin slice from the root end - just enough to enable onions to 'stand' upright. Cut a generous slice off the top of each onion, then place them in a baking tin. Drizzle with some water and olive oil, cover with foil and bake in a preheated 200˚C oven for about an hour, until onions are tender.

Very carefully remove the centres of baked onions (I used the tiniest teaspoon for that). Make sure to keep the onion bases intact, but there is no need to despair if you fail - just use removed onion layers to cover the hole.

I may have been copying and pasting, again.

9/27/103:08 AM

CindsMember 10 yearsMemoriam

Where am I stuffing it?

9/27/103:50 AM

Former Member

why would you want to stuff an onion?

9/27/105:17 AM

Green&PinkMember

... Sounds yummy to me..

9/27/107:26 AM

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