Name: Roast red onions
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 130 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 6 Spanish onions, unpeeled; 6 thin speck slices (see note); 3 thyme sprigs, leaves removed; 30 ml extra-virgin olive oil

Roast red onions

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for roast red onions by Rodney Dunn from The Agrarian Kitchen.

Serves 6

Prep

10M

Cook

Total

2H 10M

Ingredients

6 Spanish onions, unpeeled

6 thin speck slices (see note)

3 thyme sprigs, leaves removed

30 ml extra-virgin olive oil

Method

Main

1.Preheat oven to 180C. Trim onion bases with a sharp knife, then cut a cross about two-thirds of the way into top of each onion. Place speck slice in each, transfer to a small roasting pan, season to taste, scatter with thyme leaves, drizzle with olive oil and roast until very tender (1 hour 45 minutes-2 hours). Serve onions in skins with roast loin of Wessex saddleback.