Roasted Balsamic Onions

Deliciously different side dish

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 24 onions

Ingredients

• 24  small  boiling onions
• 1⁄2-2⁄3 cup olive oil
• 1⁄3 cup  balsamic vinegar
•  salt
•  freshly ground black pepper
• 2  tablespoons  minced Italian parsley (, to garnish)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350º.
2. Remove outermost skin of onions, leaving a hard, inedible exterior.
3. Put onions in a bowl.
4. Add enough olive oil to nearly cover them, toss to coat.
5. Transfer onions to a roasting pan, reserving oil.
6. Bake, basting onions occasionally with reserved oil, until they are tender when pierced with a knife.
7. (Baking time depends on the size of the onion but they will probably be done in 45 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes.) Transfer onions to a plate and let them cool.
8. Place roasting pan over a medium hot burner and add vinegar.
9. Reduce liquid to a dark, hazy syrup.
10. Pour syrup over onions.
11. Season to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle with parsley.
12. Serve cool.