BAKED ONIONS

Ingredients
4 good sized white onions, peeled
olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, peeled & finely chopped
4 twigs of fresh rosemary, lower leaves picked &
chopped
8 tbsp double cream couple of handfuls of grated


Parmesan sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
4 slices of pancetta or smoked streaky bacon
rashers

Method
1 Boil the onions in plenty of water for 15 minutes
until slightly tender. Remove from the pan and
allow to cool.

2 Then, with a sharp knife, remove the top
2.5cm/1" of each onion, finely chop and place to
one side. If need be, slightly trim the stalk end of
the onions so that they will sit flat on a roasting
tray.
3 Cut about a heaped tablespoon out from the
inside of each onion, keeping the outside intact.
Finely chop and add to the rest of the chopped
onion.
4 Pre-heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Heat a
frying pan and add a little olive oil, your garlic, the
chopped onions and just a little chopped rosemary.
5 Fry for a couple of minutes until softened, then
turn the heat down, add the cream and remove
from the heat. Stir in the Parmesan and season.
6 Wrap a nice slice of pancetta around the middle
of each onion and just spike it in place with a
sharpened twig of rosemary.
7 Place the onions on to a roasting tray and spoon
some of the chopped onion mixture inside each
one. Bake in the preheated oven for around 25
minutes.