Boiled onion..yum yum!

What a fab idea! I'm thinking a large white onion, cored, middle chopped with sage and thyme,few breadcrumbs, topped with grated cheese, and baked.
As savoury christmas puddings go, can't get much better than this!
I have a scheduled Morries visit on Thursday, shall be on the hunt for the Perfect Onion!
Thanks, OP

Boiled onion sprinkled with sage and popped in oven for a while is a lovely alternative to sage and onion stuffing.

Mmmm, that DOES sound good!

Good idea! I think boiled onion with rich white sauce, and mashed roots..

I love boiled onions as a side dish. Maybe with a roast or with something with beef in it. It wouldn't occur to me to eat them as a meal, although now its been suggested, I probably would.

I love onions in any form. If I'm roasting a chicken I quarter onions and put them around it. Delicious with the added chicken flavour.

My mum used to boil onions on Saturday night when I was allowed to stay up late as I was the oldest and give me some with a thick slice of bread and butter. Such a treat.

I frequently have just one vegetable for my lunch.
Sometimes carrots, or cauli or broc. Today was cauliflower with white sauce.
Never tried a boiled onion by itself but often put a whole one inside a chicken prior to roasting and eat that with the meat.

Good heavens! What on earth do people eat for lunch? I just have a little snack, like this onion.

Nobody’s suggesting it’s a main meal

I've never had a boiled onion, but it sounds alright to me.
I think I could eat one.

I love boiled onions. As a side dish however, not the main event.

Yesbut I see your point - onions are probably my favourite veg. But as a main meal - stewed slowly in the oven in olive oil, s&p and red wine. Plenty of bread to mop up the juices.
There are so many different kinds of onions.

Oh no‼️ Now if you’d chopped it up after boiling, put it with some grated cheese in a pastry case with a dab of mustard to make a cheese & onion pie .... I’m your woman.

Oh yes, yum yum. Thank you, you've reminded me that I haven't had a boiled onion for ages. It used to be a regular when I was a child, and my DM sometimes put white sauce with them, which was good too.

I hate to be critical, but as vegetables go, onions are not particularly low in carbs . Glad you enjoyed it, that is what matters.
I would prefer to make a soup from cauliflower or mushrooms with just a few chopped onions, for a satisfying lunch.

It was lunch ...you don’t need huge amounts of protein at every meal. So unless lunch is your main meal if the day then I don’t see the problem.

You need fibre and vitamins and minerals too, all of which are in onions. But this wasn’t supposed to be anything except a lighthearted thread and a light meal.

#wandersofftutting.

Sounds lovely, but as a side dish. We need protein. (and no matter how large the onion it would not fill me up.

Boiled two as him indoors wanted feeding. I’d say 30 minutes but test with fork in middle that it’s soft. Like you would with potatoes.

Blimey...am I ‘on trend’ then?

wanders off with smug ‘I’m trendy’ look

Yehbutnobut,I have never heard of this before but as I am very interested in all manner of cooking must ask do you just boil one and how long for?

One of the contestants did a boiled onion thing, but tarted up with other fancy bits, on Masterchef the other night.
It's obviously "on trend" together with burnt charred veg which seems to be all the rage just now.

Lunch yes Charley very filling. Could not manage two?

No onion smell as it’s been boiled soda

Possibly a northern or Scottish thing?

Oh. Eurgh.

OMG- is that a meal?

Yum, too!

That sounds great to me yehbutnobut I love onions and can eat them cooked any which way. Not always a sociable food though.