🇫🇷 French Vegetarian

Onions Provençale

Name: Onions Provençale
Prep time: 18 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 48 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tbsp, for the dish Butter; 200 ml Heavy Cream; to taste Salt; 1, sliced into rings Onion; 4 Tomato; 5 cloves Garlic; 1 tsp Black Peppercorns; 100 g, grated Cheese; 1 tbsp Herbes de Provence

🇫🇷 French

Bubbling, golden-topped comfort: onions baked until the edges crisp and the centre turns molten. 48 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 18 min Cook 30 min Serves 4 Hard

Ingredients

Butter1 tbsp, for the dish
Heavy Cream200 ml
Saltto taste
Onion1, sliced into rings
Tomato4
Garlic5 cloves
Black Peppercorns1 tsp
Cheese100 g, grated
Herbes de Provence1 tbsp

Optional extras

Tarragonhandful, to finish

Instructions

1
Heat the oven to 190°C and butter or oil a baking dish.
2
Layer the onion over the base, season, then nestle in the onions.
3
Pour the cream around the edges, scatter over the cheese and the black peppercorns.
4
Bake for 30-35 minutes until bubbling at the rim and burnished on top.
5
Rest for 5 minutes so it sets, then spoon out with the pan juices and plenty of black pepper.

Chef's tip

Every oven runs hot or cold; start checking 5 minutes early.

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