Baked Blooming Onion with Spicy Dipping Sauce

This Baked Blooming Onion is an easy recipe that’s good for you. This Gluten Free Healthy Blooming Onion uses almond flour and the spicy dipping sauce includes Greek yogurt, hot sauce and chili powder for a kick!

Ingredients

For the onion:

1 onion large, white or sweet
2 eggs
1 tbsp water
¼ cup almond flour
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp pepper

For the sauce: (makes enough to fill the dip cup and refill a few times)

¾ cup plain Greek yogurt
1 tbsp hot sauce
1 tsp chili powder or cayenne pepper to make it spicy
½ tsp garlic salt

Instructions

Oven Directions:

Preheat your oven to 400º F
Cut off the top of your onion (not the root), remove the outer layer of the onion and discard.
Place the recently cut, flat part of the onion on the cutting board, root side up.
Starting about ½ inch from the root, cut the onion straight down. Go all the way around the onion with evenly spaced cuts.
Turn the onion back over and allow the onion petals to fan out, then remove the center of the onion.
Place the onion on a cookie sheet.
In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and water.
In a second bowl, mix together the almond flour, garlic salt, paprika, and pepper.
Lightly sprinkle the onion with the flour mixture. Then spoon some of the egg mixture and, using a silicone basting brush, coat the onion with the egg mixture. (You may not need to use all of the egg mixture)
Cover the onion with the almond flour mixture. Using a spoon to get into all of the layers of the onion.
Bake your onion for 20-25 minutes until browned and onion petals are soft.
While the onion is baking, mix the Greek yogurt, hot sauce, chili powder, and garlic salt together in a bowl. Set aside in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.

Air Fryer Directions:

Preheat your air fryer to 400ºF
Cut off the top of your onion (not the root), remove the outer layer of the onion and discard.
Place the recently cut, flat part of the onion on the cutting board, root side up.
Starting about ½ inch from the root, cut the onion straight down. Go all the way around the onion with evenly spaced cuts.
Turn the onion back over and allow the onion petals to fan out, then remove the center of the onion.
In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and water.
In a second bowl, mix together the almond flour, garlic salt, paprika, and pepper.
Lightly sprinkle the onion with the flour mixture. Then spoon some of the egg mixture and, using a silicone basting brush, coat the onion with the egg mixture. (You may not need to use all of the egg mixture)
Cover the onion with the almond flour mixture. Using a spoon to get into all of the layers of the onion.
Place the onion in your air fryer basket and cook for 8-10 minutes. Or until browned and onion petals are soft.
While the onion is air frying, mix the Greek yogurt, hot sauce, chili powder, and garlic salt together in a bowl. Set aside in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.

Notes

Healthy Eating Plans

Weight Watchers: ¼ of the onion and ¼ of the sauce is 1 Blue Plan Point, 3 Green Plan Points, and 1 Purple Plan Point when using fat free yogurt.
21 Day Fix/Ultimate Portion Fix: For the entire recipe: 2 Green Containers, 2 Blue Containers, 1 Red Container. The sauce is 1 Red container.
- 1 serving is ¼ of the onion. Container counts per serving: ½ Green Container, ½ Blue Container, ¼ Red container. ¼ Red Container for the sauce.
Trim Healthy Mama: This is a THM-S recipe.

Recipe tips:

For easy clean-up, line your baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper.
If you want to make this Blooming Onion without egg, you can use any egg replacement that you like.

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