blooming onion. A Blooming Onion or Bloomin' Onion is an appetizer consisting of one large onion that's cut to look like a flower, seasoned, battered and deep-fried to crispy perfection. A delicious onion sliced to bloom, then coated and deep-fried. The recipe for the dipping sauce is Look at my review for the other Blooming Onion recipe on the site and I have more detailed info there.

Recently, I learned of a new way to enjoy this tear-jerking underground veggie: deep fried. How to Make a Blooming Onion. Indeed, the trickiest part of making a blooming onion is cutting it, but it's not actually that hard. You can have blooming onion using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of blooming onion

Prepare 1 of egg.
Prepare 1 cup of milk.
It's 1 cup of flour.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper.
You need 1 tsp of paprika.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of black pepper.
Prepare 1/3 tsp of dried oregano.
It's 1/2 tsp of dried thyme.
It's 1/2 tsp of ground cumin.
You need 1 large of sweet oinon.
You need 1 of veg oil for frying.

Just make sure you have a good sharp chef's knife with a pointed end. The Bloomin' Onion is a cult favorite and for good reason. We opted to bake instead of fry for a slightly healthier approach. It still has everything you love with the favorite, especially the sauce.

blooming onion step by step

mixing egg and milk togther. in another bowl mix the rest of ingredient togther.
now slice 1 inch off the top and bottom of the onion and remove the papery skin. then cut out the core of the onion. use a very sharp knife to slice onion several times down the center to create "petals" keep slicing until onion has been cut 16 times..
spread the petals of the onion apart. to help keep them apart you could plunge the onion into boiling water for 1 minute and then into cold water..
dip onion into the milk mixure and then coat it with flour mixture make sure it's well coated..
heat oil in deep fryer make sure you use enough oil to compltely cover the onion when it fries..
fry the onion right side up in oil for 10 minutes or until it turns brown. when done remove and drain on paper towel..
then enjoy!! also look for my blooming onion dipping sauce..

Blooming Onion is an appetizer served at some restaurants. It consists of one large fried Vidalia onion which is cut to resemble a flower. The name of the dish comes from its menu name at the Outback. Outback's Bloomin' Onion is delicious, but you don't always have the time to go out for this crunchy treat. Fortunately, you don't have to go out, because we've got a baked blooming onion that you can.