Chili’s Awesome Blossom Petals

Chili’s Awesome Blossom Petals is a great way to enjoy one of those blooming onions without all of the work! Perfect for watching the game or movie night. Everyone loves these crispy onion petals.

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What Are Awesome Blossom Petals?

Chili’s Awesome Blossom Petals has replaced the Awesome Blossom. Instead of the onion in full bloom, Awesome Blossom Petals serves up the onion as separate petals.

The fried onion petals have a light, flaky breading. It is a wonderful contrast between the sweetness of the onion and a hint of seasoned salt. The petals are served with Awesome Blossom dipping sauce similar to a ranch-style dressing.

The petals are so much easier to make, especially for home cooks.

What Makes Chilis Awesome Blossom Petals so good?

These crispy and crunchy onion petals are completely snackable. They are fried crisp and the breading is seasoned with just the right amount of spice! Then they are served with a spicy Ranch sauce you are going to love.

These awesome blossom petals are easy to make. You are going to cut the onions in petal shapes, prepare a seasoned flour mixture, batter these petals up, and fry them to perfection.

Did I mention this was much easier than making a deep-fried onion blossom???

Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need:

• Sour cream
• Ketchup
• McCormick Seasoned Salt
• Cayenne pepper
• Prepared horseradish
• All-purpose flour
• Ground black pepper
• Garlic powder
• Onion powder
• Paprika
• Buttermilk
• Vegetable oil for frying

How to Make Onion Petals and Dipping Sauce

1. In a small bowl combine sour cream, ketchup, seasoned salt, cayenne pepper, and horseradish. Cover and refrigerate until you are ready to serve.
2. Peel the onion.
3. Cut the stem of the onion off and place the onion stem side down on the cutting board.
4. Cut the onion in half diagonally then horizontally making four pieces. The slices should be about 1/2-inch thick.
5. Pull apart the layers of the onion pieces to make the petals.
6. Prepare the breading station.
7. Pour buttermilk into a bowl.
8. In another bowl combine flour, seasoned salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and paprika.
9. Bread the onions by first putting in the flour, then dip into the buttermilk, and back into the flour. Rest the onions on a wire rack.
10. Heat oil to 350 degrees. Add the onions in small batches.
11. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until they are golden.
12. Remove onion petals from oil, and then drain them on a wire rack.

How to Cut Onions Without Weeping

Cutting into an onion triggers a sequence of chemical reactions that unleashes propanethial S-oxide. This is the irritant that causes your eyes to tear up.

The secret to preventing tears is chopping an onion in a way that lowers the production of this irritant and/or keeps the irritant from getting to your eyes. Here are no fewer than six ways to cut off the waterworks:

1. Make sure your knife is sharp – A sharp knife means less damage to onion cell walls and the release of fewer irritants.
2. Limit exposure to cuts. Immediately after halving an onion, leave the side you aren’t working on upside down and unpeeled. Place the diced onion from the first half into a bowl and move it as far away as possible from you before cutting up the remaining onion.
3. Copy a chef. Chefs know to dice an onion so that most of the exposed cuts are against the cutting board. Here’s a video to show you how.
4. Work with chilled onions (refrigerated not frozen). If an onion is cold, it will produce lesser amounts of irritant. Frozen raw onions will turn mushy when they thaw.
5. Turn on the vent hood. Place your cutting board adjacent to the stove and switch on the exhaust fan to pull the irritants away from you and your eyes.
6. Wear goggles. Purchase an inexpensive set of safety goggles from the hardware store or buy goggles designed just for onion-choppers. Guaranteed to work!

Let me know how much you enjoyed making Chili’s Awesome Blossom Petals.

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