Holiday Stuffed Onions

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 10 large onions
• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
• 1 lb sausage (farmer john is the best)
• 2 cups soft breadcrumbs (make your own in the food processor, the stuff in the can is no good)
• 2/3 cup half-and-half
• 1/2 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme
• 1 1/2 cups beef broth
• 1 cup dry wine

Recipe

• 1 peel and scoop out center of onions. leaving a shell about 1/4 inch thick. chop enough of the centers to make 3 cups.
• 2 blanch onion cases in boiling water for 5 minute remove from water and let drain upside down.
• 3 sauté chopped onions in 1 stick butter.
• 4 add 1 lb sausage meat. crumble and sauté until no longer pink.
• 5 soak 2 cups bread crumbs in 2/3 cups half and half. squeeze half and half into the bread.
• 6 add soaked bread to sausage and onions.
• 7 simmer stuffing, stirring for 5 minutes ans season with 1/2 cup chopped parsley, 1/2 tsp thyme and salt and pepper to taste.
• 8 season onion shells with salt and pepper and fill with stuffing.
• 9 arrange them in a shallow baking dish just large enough to hold them.
• 10 pour 1 1/2 cup beef broth and 1 cup dry wine around the onions.
• 11 dot the onions with butter and bake at 350°f for 45 minutes, basting them a few times with the liquid.
• 12 transfer the onions to a serving dish. reduce the liquid in a saucepan to at least half. pour it over the onions and sprinkle with chopped parsley.