Reviewed: Oct. 13, 2009

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!!

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Busymomwith2and1

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Reviewed: Oct. 8, 2009

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...

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lisa46639

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Reviewed: Jul. 13, 2009

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....

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Jillian

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Reviewed: May 23, 2009

I had unexpected visitors stop by while I was making these and they gladly helped me eat them up! I made vidalia onion pedals because my onions were a bit small and I also didn't want to use a lot of oil in covering a whole onion. I used vidalia's because I had some on hand. :) I also only dipped and coated them once for a thinner coating. Thank you for sharing this recipe! Delicious! :)

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Erlina

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Reviewed: May 11, 2009

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.

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Courtney

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Reviewed: Apr. 18, 2009

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.

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Happy Dumplin

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Reviewed: Feb. 25, 2009

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!

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Reviewed: Jan. 21, 2009

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!)

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Reviewed: Jun. 24, 2008

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!

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laynzgyrl

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Reviewed: May 9, 2008

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.

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SHERA1088

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Reviewed: Oct. 1, 2007

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!

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pink

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Reviewed: Sep. 19, 2007

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!!!

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Connie_PA

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Reviewed: May 30, 2007

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!

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CLS1220

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Reviewed: Nov. 15, 2006

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.

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Rhonda Brock Fuller

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Reviewed: Sep. 18, 2006

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.

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Reviewed: Aug. 28, 2006

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.

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Celestia L.

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Reviewed: Jul. 29, 2005

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!

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Reviewed: Jul. 8, 2005

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.

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Reviewed: Apr. 13, 2005

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.

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