Stuffed Onions + Sage and Gruyére Cheese – a unique and absolutely delicious side dish to elevate any meal (but especially perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas)!
Delicious Stuffed Onions Recipe
Stuffed onions. With bacon, bread and cheese. Only three of the most delicious types of food on the planet! All sautéed together and stuffed into a hollowed out sweet, yellow onion. The most amazing combination of flavors and an amazing way to elevate any meal! These deserve a spot on your holiday table!
Why This Recipe Works
- Onions: using the onions as the vessel for the stuffing works so well because it infuses both flavor and moisture into the it. You don’t need to eat ALL the outer onions shell, but man is it good!
- Stuffing: this stuffing is just next level with the bacon grease and cheese mixed in… almost want to make it all on its own!
What You Will Need
- large yellow sweet onions: make sure you get the biggest, roundest onions you can find for this recipe!
- chicken broth: you could just use water, but using the broth just infuses more flavor into the onion.
- bacon: I recommend a smokey bacon here – that flavor will really come through later on in the dish.
- bread: you can use gluten-free or regular bread – sourdough would actually be amazing in here too.
- Gruyere cheese: need I say more! This cheese is so amazing.
- ground black pepper + ground sage + salt: just some seasoning to level up that flavor.
How to Make Stuffed Onions
Take a yellow onion and cut about the top 1/4 off, if that. Then peel the onion and cut of the other end, ever so slightly, to ensure it will sit flatly in the pan.
Use a scoop to remove the inside of the onion. Save the insides. If you scoop and the bottom chunk comes out, leaving a gaping hole – it’s okay. Just trim it and put it back in once you are done scooping. It’s okay if it doesn’t fit perfectly anymore.
Place onions in a pan. Add enough chicken broth to cover the bottom of the pan by about 1/2 inch. The place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Cook your bacon. Add bread and the onion insides. And then sage, salt and pepper. Oh and some cheese 🙂
Stuff the onions and top with cheese.
What to Serve with Stuffed Onions
Recipe FAQs
- Prep Ahead: you can easily prep the onions ahead of time by hollowing them out and leaving them in the fridge, covered.
- Gluten-Free: feel free to make this gluten-free by using gluten-free bread.
- Dairy-Free: feel free to use a dairy-free cheese if you need to!
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Stuffed Onions + Sage and Gruyére
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: Serves 4
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Stuffed Onions – A unique and absolutely delicious side dish to elevate any meal!
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet yellow onions
- 1 cup broth (chicken broth or vegetable)
- 6 slices of hickory smoked bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 2 slices of bread, cubed (I recommend sourdough)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3/4 tablespoon ground sage
- 1 1/2 cups Gruyere cheese, shredded
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Prepare onions by cutting off the top of the onion (approx. 1/3 inch). Remove tough outer layers. Cut off the bottom 1/4 inch just so they can sit flat. Use a spoon (or cookie dough scoop or melon baller) to scoop out the inside of the onion.
- Save the excess onion flesh that you scooped out and roughly chop it; set aside to be used in the stuffing later.
- Place hollowed out onion shells in deep baking dish.
- Add chicken broth to the bottom of the pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes (middle rack + uncovered) and then remove onions from pan, drain liquid, and return them to the pan. Drop oven temperature to 375 degrees F.
- While the onions are baking, cook bacon in a large skillet until it starts to get crispy. Scoop out excess grease so there is about 2-3 tablespoons left in the pan.
- Add chopped onion and let cook down over medium heat for about 5-6 minutes, moving around fairly constantly.
- Add bread, sage and pepper; stir to combine.
- Remove from heat and fold in 1 cup of cheese.
- Stuff onions with bacon mixture and top with additional cheese.
- Cover loosely with aluminum foil and bake for approximately 15 minutes. Remove foil and let bake an additional 5 minute or until cheese is melted.
- Let cool slightly, serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Prep Ahead: you can easily prep the onions ahead of time by hollowing them out and leaving them in the fridge, covered.
- Gluten-Free: feel free to make this gluten-free by using gluten-free bread.
- Dairy-Free: feel free to use a dairy-free cheese if you need to!
Originally published March 22, 2017.
Erin Frankenfield says
Delicious as expected! Erin always crushes it and this recipe seriously nailed my French Onion Soup craving!
Erin says
I so appreciate that, Erin! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review and I am SO glad you enjoyed them!