Blooming Onion With Sauce
May 10, 2019
Ingredients
- 4 Vidalia or Texas sweet onion
- ***BATTER***
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons garlic
- minced
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pepper
- 1 cup beer
- ***SEASONED FLOUR***
- 2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons paprika
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cayenne pepper
- ***CREAMY CHILI SAUCE***
- 1 pint mayonnaise
- 1 pint sour cream
- 1/2 cup tomato chili sauce
- 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
Directions
- Step 1 Seasoned flower: Combine ingredients and mix well
- Step 2 Batter: Combine ingredients and mix well. Mix cornstarch, flour, and seasonings until well blended.
- Step 3 Add beer, mix well. Adjust thickness of batter with more beer if necessary.
- Step 4 Cut about 3/4″ off top of onion and peel.
- Step 5 Cut into onion 12 to 16 vertical wedges but do not cut through bottom root end.
- Step 6 Remove about 1″ of petals from center of onion. You may want to separate the onion petals slightly, do not do this too much, you will destroy the onion.
- Step 7 Dip onion in seasoned flour remove excess by shaking. Separate petals to coat thoroughly with batter. Dip in batter. Dip in flour mixture again.
- Step 8 Gently place in fryer basket and deep-fry at 375 to 400F for 1 1/2 minutes. Turn over, and fry an additional 1 1/2 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
- Step 9 Place onion upright in shallow bowl and remove center core with circular cutter or apple corer.
- Step 10 Serve hot with Creamy Chili Sauce. Combine ingredients and mix well.
- Step 11 If you place the onion down face first into boiling water for 1 1/2 minutes, than place it face down in ice water it will help the petals to open more readily.