Baby Blooming Onions
Be still my beating heart! There is nothing like a spicy breaded fried onion to jump start your positive attitude and tantalize your taste buds. Throw in my delicious chipotle mayo teased with just a touch of yellow mustard and you won’t be able to resist!
Now don’t be intimidated by the cutting of the onion. You are just cutting it into little pie shapes without going all the way through to the bottom but close enough to spread the onion out a little bit. But when you spread the onion out go ever so gently. Work it out! If you cut too far save the onion for an omelette or something.
Baby Blooming Onions
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonaise
- 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce minced (more or less to taste)
- 1 tablespoons of the adobo sauce (more or less to taste)
- 1 small garlic clove finely minced
- 1 green onion chopped
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 2 teaspoons yellow mustard (the hotdog kind)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons oregano
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
- 3–4 small onions
- Vegetable Oil
Instructions
- Combine mayonaisse, chipotle pepper, adobo sauce, minced garlic, green onion, lime juice and mustard in small bowl. Cover and place in refrigerator.
- Whisk egg and milk in bowl deep enough to dunk the onion.
- Mix flour, paprika, salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, garlic powder, oregano and cumin in bowl deep enough to fit the onion.
- Cut a small part of the onion of the top and the bottom creating a flat surface and peel any old skins off the onions. Cut onions in pie shape without cutting all the way through. Cut them in 12ths so they will spread out a little bit. Gently work to spread them out. Dip the onion in the egg mixture and then in the flour mixture. Back into the egg mixture and then back into the flour mixture, You will need to gently work the the mixtures into the petals of the onion. Refrigerate the onions for 15-30 minutes.
- Heat oil in a heavy pan to 350 degrees. You will need just enough oil to cover the onion. Fry the onions right side up for 6-9 minutes. Stay close so they do not get too brown. Drain on paper towels.
- Serve immediately with the chipotle mayo.
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I love this.
Thanks for the compliment! It makes me very happy!
I love these. Thank you so much for reminding us that we don’t always t\have to make the large ones only.
Me too! I need to eat things in small portions. LOL!
Going to try this but I am also going to use the same dipping proceedure to prep the larger garlic cloves on a toohpick and fry those also. When cloves are cooked they get sweet and creamy as well as fresh chicken nuggets on toothpicks and fry. Serve at game day. Have variety of dips and honey for the nuggets.
Those are all wonderful ideas Pamela! Thanks for sharing those with us!
Soak the onions in water to get them to spread easily
Thanks for the heads up. We always appreciate helpful food tips.
i am going t trythis for the super bowl we always have appys to eat. i will deep fry this in my deep fryer too.
Sounds like a plan. Happy cooking!
Can you make those in an air-fryer. I just bought one and was hoping I could try these.
I am sorry I can not answer that. I have never used an air fryer. Never even heard of them until now!! 🙂
Yes you can..I made a large one, delicious, never thought to make small ones. Almost didn’t want to do it again just to much. Now I will. I had no recipe for it. Just try about 5 min open up, if not done just put it back in. Easy. Was so crispy.
Yes you can
I totally destroyed a keyboard with drool over this one! A moment of serendipity, I needed some onion to throw into a recipe and there in the sink was one of those apple sectioner/corer gadgets. Humm, says I. Thump. Did not quite cut all the way through the onion but there was a mini-blooming onion right before my eyes! Wow! How can I put this discovery to use? Well, right here in THIS recipe! I would take care to not cut the onion all the way through and I would
as Patti suggests soak the cut onion in warm(?) water to aid the petal spread (don’t know what happened when I went to find out who suggested the water soak) OK, 8 sections instead of 12 but super easy to do. (I like super easy.)
A restaurant near me used to make pepper rings too – think I’ll try this on both.
Sounds delicious!!
Could you please clarify something?
Is there an egg in the buttermilk mixture?
There is no egg in the list of ingredients in the recipe, however,
in the “make ahead” instructions, you mention an egg mixture.
Also, if made ahead, are they fried from the frozen state?
Thank you.
Are you referring to my Baby Blooming Onions Recipe? There is an egg listed in the ingredients and it is whisked in with milk.