Roast Red Onions

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By David Eyre

Published 2009

  • About

Red onions are best for roasting, as they cook to the most wonderful magenta colour and have a lovely sweetness, but any small firm onions or shallots, or a combination, would work.

Method

Peel the onions and trim the hairy part of the root, but leave the main part intact to hold the onion together. Cut the onions into quarters through the root. Put them into a roasting tin with some whole peeled garlic cloves, bay leaves, strong herbs (such as thyme</