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Serving Size : 2 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Vegetarian Main dish
Side dish
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 lg Vidalia onion
Vegetable spray
2 ts Margarine, soy or safflower
Salt
Pepper -- ground
1 tb Pecans -- chopped
With sharp knife, carefully peel onion and trim root
end, leaving it intact. Standing onion on its root
end, cut parallel vertical slices at 1/4-inch
intervals into, but not through, onion, stopping aout
1/2 inch above root end. Rotate onion 90 degrees; cut
parallel vertical slices in same manner to form a
crosshatch pattern, keeping onion intact. Coat
microwave-safe pie plate with vegetable spray. Place
onion, root end down, in center of pie plate. Drizzle
with margarine, and season with salt and pepper to
taste.
Cover with waxed paper and microwave on High (100%
power) 3 minutes. Baste with cooking liquid and rotate
dish. Cover and microwave on High 3 to 4 minutes
longer, or until onion spreads open into a "flower."
Sprinkle flower with pecans; microwave on High 1 to 2
minutes longer, or until flower appears translucent.
With wide spatula, remove onion flower from pie plate
to serving plate.
Per serving: About 65 cal, 1 g pro, 12 g carb, 2 g
fat, 28% cal from fat, 0 mg chol, 31 mg sod
From _Low-Fat Meals_ (Woman's Day) Vol III, Number 5
