Baked Stuffed Onions

You’ll never look at onions the same way again! This wonderful side dish goes well with beef, pork or chicken, or it can be a geat little meal in itself!

Step: 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a shallow baking dish.

Step: 2

In a saucepan bring 1 cup water to a boil. Add rice and stir. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Step: 3

Slice tops off of onions. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add onions and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and remove centers of onions, leaving shell intact. Chop centers and reserve 1/2 cup of the chopped flesh.

Step: 4

Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, reserving drippings, crumble and set aside.

Step: 5

In the reserved drippings saute green pepper and reserved 1/2 cup chopped onion until tender. Combine with sausage, egg, cooked rice, bread crumbs, oregano and parsley. Spoon mixture into onion shells and place in prepared dish.

Step: 6

Combine melted butter and paprika; brush or spoon over onions.

Step: 7

Bake in preheated oven, covered, for 15 minutes. Uncover and bake an additional 5 minutes.

Per Serving: 365 calories; protein 10.1g; carbohydrates 35g; fat 20.9g; cholesterol 66.9mg; sodium 717mg.

The most clear way to pick a side dish is to caught at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and choose more different. When you’re making pasta, make sure for a simple vegetable . Made steak? Go for something light. If you’re want to cooking stir-fry with rice, it must not a best idea to also make a rice salad.

This also can make to cooking method . You don’t want to push more often your oven by scheduling three dishes at once in there, or be rounding four pans on the cooking items . But often you can make a dish do double-duty .