Blooming Onion

if you slice the onion and then soak it in ice water for about an hour it will "bloom" or open up so you can serve it like the Chilis and Outback do. The souce is great.

This is by far the best blooming onion I have ever had. I am now using this recipe for mushrooms and zucchini as well.

This is an excellent recipe. Not only does it make a great "blooming onion", but it also makes great onion rings, if you prefer them. And it makes good onion petals, too.

This is basically the same exact recipe as the "Blooming Onion and Dipping sauce" recipe on the site. Its a very good recipe and makes great blooming onions. And the sauce is delicious! Just make sure to warm it up slightly before serving. I just dont think it tastes as good cold. If you are scared or have had failed at making blooming onions in the past I have some great pointers to help make one perfect. Look at my review for the other Blooming Onion recipe on the site and I have more detailed info there. I used to never be able to make them until I did a couple steps differently and now they turn out perfect!

After seeing a commercial on TV for the Outback Steakhouse, I got a craving for their Bloomin' Onion. This recipie was absolutely perfect! I made onion rings based on others' reviews, so it was easy and delicious! The dipping sauce is also just what I was looking for. My boyfriend wants to keep it around for dipping other foods, too. Thanks!

We were craving the blooming onion after seeing a billboard for Outback Steakhouse. This recipe was awesome, we had fun getting everything together and it turned out great!!! Thank you for an easy and tasty recipe.

This was very good...very similar to other blooming onion recipe on this site. Like them both equally. You do need to soak the onion in an ice bath for at least an hour in order for it to actually bloom (like other reviewers suggested). Thanks for the post.

We've always loved onion blooms when we eat out, this is an excellent recipe, tastes just like them. And the sauce is great too! My deep fat fryer doesn't do a whole onion well, so I make rings or petals instead, and get raves every time!

To be fair, I think my onion was too small. The dip is delicious and will use it on other things.

It takes some practice but well worth it

YUM! Just like what you get at the Texas Roadhouse! I used a soup ladle to make the cuts. This kept the blade of the knife from cutting through and kept all the cuts the same depth. After cutting, I soaked the onion in ice water then using my thumb I separated each row of pedals under water. (It's cold but the water helps to keep the pedals separated) I used a bowl to contain the milk and egg but used a zip lock bag for the flour mixture. I found I could work the flour mixture into the pedals that way. A "Fry Daddy" was used for deep frying. The first one I made seemed difficult but Hubby wasn't home and wanted me to make another when he got home. (He saw the photo!) The second was much easier because I knew what I was doing. After making the second one, I decided I will make these again. The dip was perfect! Thank you Joanne Bruck for sharing!

A lot cheaper than going out for one of these! I used Southwest Dipping Sauce from this site and my onion was a bit small and I will need to practice cutting it. The coating was perfect - I added 1 tsp. of paprika. Definitely will be making this again, but maybe as onion petals until I get the hang of this....

Both the sauce and the onion are scrumptious. I also soaked the sliced onion in an ice bath for a bit over an hour before continuing and the onion did bloom or flower out perfectly. The only addition I would make to this wonderful recipe is to use a couple of toothpicks through the bottom of the onion to keep it from falling apart. Delicious!

The batter was quick and easy to make. We had some trouble making the onion "bloom" by hand. Instead, we gently opened the onion a little then placed it cut side down into some simmering water for a minute. After, we placed it into an ice water bath for 3 minutes and the onion bloomed nicely. To separate the petals during frying, we also dry dusted the onion with some flour mixed with the same spices the recipe called for, then dipped it into the batter, and ducted again. It took a little more effort, but we definately got an awesome bloom.

We were craving a bloomin onion, and just worked w what we had at home. Sadly wasn't able to make the dip, but will next time! I also just made onion rings bc I was a little afraid to mess up :). I may hold back a tiny bit on the cayenne next time bc the kids thought they were too spicy. BUT these were fabulous and I will make them again!

My first attempt at a blooming onion -Excellent recipe! Followed the recipe exactly and it came out perfect. The dipping sauce is awesome! I was trying to think of where else I could use it! Thx!!!

The dipping sauce was great, but my blooming onion lovers wanted alot more horse raddish, also the recipe for the batter was great, but instead I just cut my onions into rings, make sure that you coat as thick as you can! They were great!

Absolutely FANTASTIC!!! came across this recipe todya and just had to make it and it came out better than i expected. Instead of putting the flou mixture in a bowl i did it in a large ziploc bag and shook the bag to ensure that it got completely covered. It worked great and made for an easy clean up. This recipe is perfect has a good amount of kick from the cayenne its just all around great!!

Everyone loved these! I cut it as if I was going to make the bloomin onion, but then I pulled it all apart. It was a lot easier making it that way. After you dip it in the egg/milk mixture, my advice is to put the flour in a large ziploc bag, place the onion in the bag, close it almost completely, blow air into the bag like a balloon, completely close the bag, shake it a lot, then just let it sit for a little bit.

Perfect, don't change a thing. EXCEPT let the onion sit longer than 15 minutes in the fridge. A good hour is better. Shop for the biggest onion you can find! Fry in a fryer for perfect results.

I couldn't get the onion to coat properly. Next time I will try the cold water previously suggested. However the sauce was great!

This was great and everyone had fun eating. You just have to remember to let the onions sit in ice cold water after slicing so they will open up. Tastes yummy!! I made four and didn't have enough everyone wanted more!!

Absolutely delicious! I have been eyeing this recipe for quite some time, and finally got around to making it. So glad I did. The onion was awesome and the sauce was just incredible. Just like you would get in a restaurant.

The best blooming onion recipe!!!! Recommend using the dry mixture and then letting it sit for a minute or two, then doing more dry mixture. Awesome sauce, too!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS RECIPE!!!

Fantastic recipe! It's restaurant style, only cheaper! I found it difficult getting the onion to 'bloom' so I may opt to make onion rings next time- but definately a keeper.

yeah, this is a blooming onion alright!

Amazing! I never got my onion to "bloom" but I did petals as well and they were awesome.

My husband and I enjoyed this although our onion did not coat well and therefore did not fry evenly. I did as some suggested and submerged in Ice Water for an hour. Also next time I will use less Cayenne.

Very good recipe. I used this recipe to make onion petals/chips. I didn't make the sauce...I prefer mine dipped in ranch. The only thing I did different in the recipe was only put a little less then 1 tsp on cayenne pepper and will probably only use 1/2 tsp next time (I have a weak tongue for spicy food!)

Pretty good, Chose to do petals instead of bloom so it was quicker to make, but this was pretty much a winner. Will make again and the sauce was great to, just had to add a little more ketchup b/c there was a strong mayo taste. But this was great.

okay. The flavor was good, but it wasn't very clear on how to bloom the onion. I cut only the top off, cut all the way down when cutting across, and put it in HOT water for it to bloom. The bottom of the onion helped to keep the onion together. I would suggest bread crumbs for the second flouring.

If I could give this 10 stars I would!!! I didn't make the bloom because I just haven't mastered it yet but I pulled it apart and made the petals. I really couldn't make it fast enough people were eating so fast. I even had a request to make it at our annual deer hunting party. It did require just a little messing around with the dip. My daughter said she tasted a lot of mayo. A little french dressing did the trick.

Used this recipe to make petals instead of a whole onion (cut the onion into wide strips) and it was outrageously delicious. Accidentally used curry powder instead of cumin, but it was a happy accident. The curry flavor was amazing. Can't wait to use this breading/spices on chicken!

Im rating this 5 star even though mine looked nothing like the blooming onion Im used to LOL But im almost positive It was my own doing! It does taste Delicious! And the sauce ummmmm it is AMAZING!!! I will Most definitely try these again soon lets just hope I can get it right lol

this was amazing.

I have tried this recipe and loved it! I added a little paprika to my flour mixture for little color and more flavor. I did tweak the Dipping Sauce just a little adding a little more horseradish, and I also added a few shots of Franks Hot Sauce. I also use Hellmans REAL Mayonnaise as I dearly love the stuff. Happy Eating!

Excellent. We loved it.

So many ingredients, but Soooo worth it. Tasted as good or better than thos at those restaurants. The person who said they now use it for other veggies has a good idea, can't wait to try that too.

I live in Japan and without an outback. I'm keeping it for the time I'm here. I put the sauce on a burger with the onion pedals. Wow, so good!

This recipe is fantastic. I have used it for the onion blossom and used it for regular onion rings as well. The batter has a bit of a bite and so sometimes I cut the cayenne pepper a bit to change it up.

would NOT make again-

I followed this recipe exactly and it turned out great! Tonight i accidently cut too far, so i made onion petals. I couldnt imagine dipping in milk then flour mixture for each petal, so I added all the ingredients then added an extra cup of flour...the result was great! A+

Love this recipe! My husband and I are big outback fans and this is pretty dead on! I did however have some problems with my onion "blooming" I will try a bigger one next time and also try ice water! Thanks!

Flavor 5 stars! Ease of preparation 3 stars. (ie: only 4 star recipe) the dipping sauce was great after I too added a couple splashes of liquid smoke and also a tbsp of prepared horseradish as the taste before the real horseradish tasted all too much like mayo. Maybe next time I'll just replace the creamed horseradish with prepared all the way!!! Love the heat of horseradish though! The onion, lol, cut it in petals as it fell apart trying to bloom it. The batter double dipping was very messy. this is definately a recipe you must dip one petal at a time and likely will need double flour mixture to get a good double dip as I ran out and ended up with lots of gooey messy batter. So extra flour mix could've fixed that. Dip was great! Breading was great flavor too!

yum! used as onion rings and was perfect!

Made onion straws. Didn't care for sauce. But the coating was great! Next time I'll cut back a bit on the cayenne, though.

This was my first try at a blooming onion. It was fairly simple. It remarkably tasted the same as the Outback version. I will make this again for sure.

YUM. I ended up taking the easy way out and just made onion rings...yep lazy. I used two very big sweet onions and ended up having to double the flour mixture, which by the way I was worried about my 5 yr. olds little buds because of the cayenne, but he devoured at least 5 of them! Geez, I've not had a bloomin' onion in years, so I can't even compare, but this is a very tasty recipe, I will use this again.....can't help but wonder how it would be as a fish batter. Thanks for the recipe Joanne.

Good stuff!!

I doubled the sauce, but otherwise it was delicious! I will definitely make this again.

Great recipe, thanks for sharing! The batter was delicious but I learned that making a bloomin onion is harder than i thought it would be. However, I plan on using the batter recipe to make fried mushrooms later.

We loved it. I did soak it in ice water for 1 1/2 hours so that it "bloomed" but the dredge and sauce was on point!!!

If anyone can help me for some reason mine turned out really greasy not sure what I did wrong.

This recipe was sooo delicious! I could not even tell the difference from the restaurants. The only thing I did different was to the sauce, I added an extra Tbsp of horseradish and a tsp of french dressing for sweetness! Delicious...

I love blooming onion

Taste is great, especially sauce. Spectacular perfection has not always been easy to achieve! Maybe much with much more practice it would improve, but I am dubious. Presentation is always the most important criteria when serving guests, isn't it!

Excellent recipe. Next time, I think I'll try using buttermilk in lieu of the milk to give it a bit of tang. Thanks for sharing.

I did it exactly as it was supposed to be except my onion fell apart so I cooked it in pieces instead of a whole onion it was still delicious

It was a good recipe I tried it twice the 2nd time I spread the petals apart a little bit more and that helped that helped The 1st time I did not cook it long enough the 10 minutes Work perfect

DE-LICIC-IOUS!! We didn’t have enough oil to make it with an entire onion, so we made onions straws. I simply cannot tell you HOW GREAT it was. I’d put this up against any restaurant’s recipe any day! Loved it. Thanks so MUCH for sharing! I don’t think we’ll ever have people over for football without this recipe!( POST pandemic, that is)

This tastes so good. Pretty much identical to Outback. My husband loved it. Will definitely make it again!

Delicious and worth it!!!! I used wasabi paste instead of horseradish, but other than that, followed the recipe to the letter! A keeper!

The onion was delicious. I will definitely make this again. I think it tasted better than the restaurants. I changed the sauce a little, it had strong mayo flavor, so I added more ketchup, a little honey mustard, and some liquid smoke and it was delicious.

Yum, so very good. Next time, I'll need to work harder at getting the blooms individually coated with batter, but it was still very yummy!

Loved it, putting ot in the refrigerator is a critical step

Read the reviews and took their advice. AMAZING!!

Good flavor. Maybe a touch bland. But very good.

Good onion and *great* dipping sauce!

Very tasty but boy did I get into a mess with coating the onion. Next time I will do as suggested and cut into onion rings. Dipping sauce was great.

Absolutely FANTASTIC!!! came across this recipe todya and just had to make it and it came out better than i expected. Instead of putting the flou mixture in a bowl i did it in a large ziploc bag and shook the bag to ensure that it got completely covered. It worked great and made for an easy clean up. This recipe is perfect has a good amount of kick from the cayenne its just all around great!!

I agree with others - the sauce is delicious. However, cooking the onion is going to require a lot of practice. I soaked the onion for an hour and a half and it still didn't open up. I cut it a little bit more and soaked it some more. Still didn't open so I floured it and did what I could to force batter into the crevices. Into the hot oil it went but I couldn't get it to cook in the centre , I turned it over to try to cook it some more but by then the onion was getting pretty dark brown. It was delicious for sure but not something I'm prepared to try on company, not yet anyway.

Really good. The sauce was incredible!!! I cut onion into petals (got too frustrated trying to bloom that onion!), however the petals did kind of stick together in the deep fryer and ended up staying stuck together. Extremely time consuming but good for entertaining!

We had trouble getting the batter to stick even after soaking it for 1+ hour in the ice water. The onion had decent flavor but wasn't anything special (but the sauce was very good). We've tried making these before and haven't had any real luck - may need one of those blooming onion cutters to make this work. Decent recipe.

The taste is incredibly close to its namesake. Breading the onion took some patience, but it turned out better than expected and definitely hit the spot for my craving.

Both the onion and the sauce tasted just like Outback

I only had garlic salt & pepper to season the onion with. I didn't let it sit in the fridge the complete 15 min... Taste was great, however the individual "petals" were not coated as I hoped.. More like a crust around the entire onion and then each piece was crusted on the tips...

Both the onion and the sauce tasted just like Outback

Way to spicy for us. I only ever had a blooming onion from texas road house b4, and this was not even close. Way to spicy!!!

It was EXCELLENT! I need to learn how to “cut” better! The Guys devoured it even though it was in pieces!

I use this for onion rings or onion petals. it works fantastic still & tastes AMAZING!! the sauce is delicious as well. my only modification on the sauce is a little less horseradish. my husband requests these constantly!