Grilled Vidalia Onions with Bacon Butter

Name: Grilled Vidalia Onions with Bacon Butter
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 158 milliliters crumbled blue cheese; 3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps freshly chopped thyme leaves; 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature; 4 larges Vidalia onions

Grilled Vidalian Onions with Bacon Butter is The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. If you have vidalian onions, cheese, freshly thyme leaves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Special equipment: Heavy duty aluminum foil

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Aluminum Foil

Preheat grill to medium heat.

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Grill

Cut onion top and "backtail" so onion can sit flat. Peel the onion. Using a parking knife cut a hollow cone-like shape into the center of the onion making sure not to go all the way to the bottom. Salt and pepper to the cavity.

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Salt And Pepper

Onion

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Knife

Place onions on individual squares of heavy duty aluminum foil.

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Onion

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Aluminum Foil

Add the butter, bacon, blue cheese, and thyme to a bowl and mix until well combined.

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Blue Cheese

Butter

Bacon

Thyme

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Bowl

Add large dollops of the butter to each cavity of the onions. Fold the aluminum foil all around the onion, gathering at the top and sealing to create a tent.

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Butter

Onion

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Aluminum Foil

Place on the grill over direct heat and cover the grill. Cook for 30 minutes until onions are soft.

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Onion

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Grill

Let cool for 5 minutes before opening the foil packet and serving.

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