1 onion. Ideas please

French onion soup. With a large lump of cheese on toast on top.

Difficult to improve on that. It is a red onion so slicing it and cooking it very slowly so that it caramalises and serving it with a steak would also be pretty good.

Add a dash of balsamic vinegar to the caramelised red onion and make delicious canapes by serving on croutons with a little crumbled stilton on top -even better popped in the oven for just long enough to melt the stilton.

A cheese sandwich with red onion. Toasted, if you feel like cooking.

Roasted red onion and beetroot with garlic and thyme, glazed with a few spoonfuls of chicken stock (or veg stock if a vegetarian) and balsamic vinegar.

Add a steak or sausages + potatoes.

I'm with MissA on this one. Can't beat a cheese and onion sandwich!

Caramelised red onion and goats cheese tartlets - delicious!

Cut in half
Use one half to make an onion poultice for a bad cough.
The other half use raw and stick on bunion.

If you are cough and bunion free then a nice cheese and onion sarnie.

I need a cheese and onion sandwich, probably toasted!

What about tomato and red onion bruschetta, drizzled with balsamic dressing?

stuff it with minced beef or lamb wrap in foil and bake and serve it with a tomato...ey sauce

If that were me i would put it in the bin...i hate onions!

Cherrytree59 ?

I can't afford steak ! So I'd fry up some liver and onions !

A quarter diced and sprinkled raw atop pate on toast ...
Three quarters caramelised and eaten with good quality sausages / cheese omelette, or added to sautéed potatoes ...

Got me thinking for supper time today!

caramalised onion tart, yummy.

Cook it very slowly in pan with balsamic vinegar, brown sugar and chilli and lots cardamom seeds crushed, takes ages but makes beautiful onion sambal, Sri Lankan style chutney

This all sounds delicious. Must look out for stray onions in the high street.

Loopy

This thread has brought back memories of my childhood: with a single parent and three children to feed and not much money, my mother had to be inventive with meals.

She used to make the most delicious fritters out of one onion grated, mixed with a couple of slices of stale white bread (white because it was the 1950s) soaked lightly in milk, mashed up with a beaten egg and spoonfuls dropped into hot oil to fry. A bit like an onion bhaji without the spice. I can taste them now, filling and delicious. We'd wait next to the stove and scoff them almost before they had time to hit the plate.

Grannyknot, that sounds delicious. Sometimes you just can't beat recipes made out of nessessity. Our Mums were wonderful.

That sounds really tasty. Might do that with a vegetable curry this pm. Once by mistake I ordered 1 brussels sprout and cooked it and chopped it up as a garnish on parsnips. Looked great!

If it's a big one it won't be as sweet as a small one, so not quite right for eating raw, thinly sliced, on a salad.

There are recipes for onion jams and chutneys which will keep till Christmas.

But you want to eat it now - so go for the soup, or slice it up and cook it with red cabbage (add no liquid - except perhaps a tiny drop of vinegar, or port or red wine for special occasions.)

For my recipe you really need lots more onions but you get the idea

Roughly, chunkily, chop up the onion and a couple of sweet potatoes and roast them together. Great with chicken.