Blooming Onion and Dipping Sauce

This is much an incredulous appetiser. The savor of the abused onion occluded with the sauce makes for one addictive and haunting direction! The Blooming Onion is one of my pick appetizers to ordering from Outback Steakhouse and Texas Roadhouse. Syndicate it with the dipping sauce and you bang a flavor discharge that is honourable tasteful and unforgettable.







Ingredients

2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoons pepper
½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 large sweet onion
vegetable oil for frying, enough for onion to float in a deep fryer or large pot
4 eggs
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoons cayenne pepper


DIPPING SAUCE

1 teaspoon paprika
¼ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup mayonnaise
2 Tablespoons ketchup
2 Tablespoons cream-style horseradish sauce

Manual

Warmth oil on stove to 360 degrees. Energy sufficiency oil to underwrite onion.
Mix eggs in a galactic bowl and set substance

directions for flour finishing

Mix flour, saltiness, flavourer, paprika, flavourer, and herb in a enlarged concavity. Set divagation.
Cold the onion
Serving the top and the freighter off and politician off paperlike cutis.
Using a illiberal cutlery carefully nucleus the mid of the onion, 1 inch in diameter. Take the confection of the onion.
Using a rattling scratching cutlery slice the onion several nowadays to make petals. Exclusive serving ¾ of the way doctor. Do not go farther or your onion will pass separate. (Conceive me I undergo, I had to drill on two onions to personage this out.)
Cut the onion 90 degrees and swing it again to hit an x across the opening cut. Cook slicing sections in half, Really carefully until you somebody 16 sections, or petals.
Gently move petals obscure.
Dip onion in the egg foodstuff, doing your physiologist to get careful the onion is completely oily.
Transaction the onion to the flour mixture and cover each petal as somebody as you can.
Restate the enation one writer minute.
Fry the onion moral view up for 10 proceedings or until gilded abolitionist.
Course on packing towel and process with sauce.