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Low Carb Crispy Retro Blooming Onion Carb Manager

WEBStep 2. Place the almond flour in a large bowl (you may need more than listed in the ingredients). Press the bloomed onion into the almond flour …

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1. Prepare the blooming onion the day before you want to make it. Cut the root end off a large Vidalia onion and peel away the paper and any green skin. Turn the onion over to lay the flat, sliced end down on a surface. Make 4 incisions: one at each quarter of the onion, cutting all the way through to the flat surface, and leaving the onion attached at ½-inch away from the top. Make 3 incisions the same style between each quarter-incision. You’ll have a total of 16 incisions. Turn the onion over and spread the bloomed pieces out wide.
2. Place the almond flour in a large bowl (you may need more than listed in the ingredients). Press the bloomed onion into the almond flour and pour more over the onion to give it an all-over light coating. In another bowl, whisk the egg and cream together. Transfer the bloomed onion to the egg mixture and rotate the onion until it’s coated all over in the wet dredge.
3. In the dry almond flour bowl, combine ground pork rinds with the pepper, paprika, and garlic powder. Transfer the wet onion to the pork rind mixture and rotate until the onion has picked up the pork rind breading. Sprinkle the breading from the bowl over the top of the onion so it fills in all those separated pieces. Take your time to work cleanly. Then, loosely wrap the onion in aluminum foil and set it in your freezer overnight - at least 12 hours.
4. When you are ready to bake your blooming onion, preheat an air fryer to 400 degrees. Remove the onion from the freezer and open up the foil. Roll the foil down so it acts as a base for the outer pieces of the onion to rest on. Gently pull open the onion to “re-bloom” it. Bake the onion with the foil base on a low-set air fryer tray for 17 minutes. You may need to rotate the onion during baking to avoid burning.

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