Baked Onions With Gruyere

duonyte's Note:

This recipe comes from Morton's, a venerable steakhouse, and their cookbook, "Morton's The Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Every Kitchen."

• Total Time: 2 hrs
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 10

• 5 medium sweet white onions, such Vidalia
• 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
• salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 1 cup low sodium beef broth
• 2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce
• 1 cup finely shredded gruyere, about 4 oz
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh sage

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 deg F.
2. Coat a large, shallow baking dish with cooking spray or oil. The dish should be large enough to hold the onion halves.
3. Trim about 1/4 inch off top and bottom of the onions, so that the halves will sit flat. Cut the onions in half crosswise and then peel them. Arrange the halves, middle cut side up, in the baking dish.
4. Brush the exposed onion tops with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake about 35 minutes.
5. In a glass measuring cup, combine the broth and soy sauce.
6. Remove the onions from the oven, pour the broth mixture over the onions.
7. Return the baking dish to the oven, and bake an hour longer, basting from time to time. If the sauce gets very low, add some water.
8. Remove the dish from the oven and sprinkle evenly with the cheese and chopped sage. Bake 5 to 7 minutes longer, or until the cheese melts.

Reviews

[WiGal]

Am still smacking my lips! Umm ... so good! Made as posted and then put inside buttered bread and grilled in our Foreman for a wonderful lunch. Thank you for sharing duonyte!

[Debbwl]

Yes this does look and taste like just like Morton's. We really liked all that yummy baked gruyere on top. This is a recipe were you want to use a good quality beef broth. Like the way you have the onions cut as doing so makes them hold together nicely and the basting ensures that the beef flavor is infused into all layers of the onion, yum. Thank you for the post.

[Sharon123]

This was just delicious! Definately going into my keeper cookbook. I did scale the recipe down for one onion and used homemade vegetable broth. Made for the 123 Hit Wonder game.