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Quinoa Stuffed Onions with Romesco Sauce

Quinoa Stuffed Onions with Romesco Sauce

Sonali Morjaria
4.91 from 75 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Appetizer
Cuisine British
Servings 2 servings

Ingredients
 
 

Romesco sauce:

  • 10 g parsley
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 40 g almonds
  • 30 g sundried tomatoes
  • half red pepper
  • 1.5 tbsp parsley
  • 1 tsp red wine vinegar
  • evoo

Stuffed onions:

  • 2 white onions
  • rapeseed oil
  • 1 pack puy lentils rinsed
  • whole grain quinoa
  • 2 sun dried tomatoes
  • 30 g feta cheese
  • 1 tbsp parsley
  • half a lemon juiced
  • 1/4 lemon zest
  • 1 tbsp homemade pistachio breadcrumb

Instructions
 

How to Make the Romesco Sauce:

  • Add all the sauce ingredients into a blender.
  • Drizzle in oil as you blend until you reach a smooth consistency.

How to Make 2 Stuffed Onions:

  • Preheat oven to 190 °C/ 374 ℉.
  • Cut the ends off the onions, peel, and then make a cross cross in the middle and scoop out the inner layers (don’t throw these away) keeping the outer layer intact. Coat well with oil and bake for 20-25 mins until cooked but the onion is still intact.
  • Whilst the onion shell is in the oven chop up the inner layers finely. In a pan, sauté the chopped onion with a little oil until translucent, add the sun dried tomatoes, quinola and stir for a few minutes.
  • Remove from the heat, crumble in the feta and add the parsley and lemon juice and zest.
  • Stuff the quinoa filling into the onion shells, top with pistachio breadcrumbs and return the onion to the oven for a further 5 mins.
  • Serve with the romesco sauce.

Notes

Quinoa Stuffed Onions with Romesco Sauce
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