Creamed Lilies of the Field
From notyourmomma 16 years ago
- 35 minutes to make
- Serves 6
On of our most adored Thanksgiving recipes. The holiday just isn't right unless these onions are on the table, along with the Brussel sprouts.
Ingredients
- 12 shallots, peeled shopping list
- 12 cloves of garlic, peeled shopping list
- 2 cups of pearl onions shopping list
- 1 cup of cippolini (crazy hard to peel) shopping list
- 2 bunches of green onions, chopped shopping list
- fresh chives - tough to measure, chopped I'd say it is 1/3 cup shopping list
- 1/2 stick of butter shopping list
- 1/4 cup of a.p. flour shopping list
- 2 cups of whipping cream, heated just below scalding with 10 or so peppercorrns, and one big yellow onion chopped shopping list
- 1/4 tsp of nutmeg (six or seven big swipes of a fresh nutmeg on a rasp) shopping list
- 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
- 8-10 grinds of black pepper shopping list
How to make it
- The only way I can peel cippolini onions and pearl onions is to cut an X in the bottom, not all the way through and drop them in a pot of boiling water, reducing the heat and simmering about 15 minutes.
- Drain, peel and set aside.
- Then starting in cold water in small sauce pan, bring the garlic and shallots up to a simmer shy of 10 minutes.
- Strain the shallots and garlic out of the water and set aside. Keep the hot water in the pot; quickly dump in the chopped green onions into the hot water for 3 minutes.
- Drain and set aside.
- Finally, melt the butter and whisk in the flour.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring all the while.
- Remove from heat and whisk in the hot cream (after you strain out the onion and peppercorns)
- Return to the stove and cook over medium heat until it thickens, stirring constantly.
- Add nutmeg, salt and pepper tasting along the way.
- Add in shallots, garlic, cippolini, pearl onions, green onions and chives. Serve.
- You can keep these warm in a double boiler over simmering heat while you fix the rest of the dinner. Time consuming but worth it.
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Thanks so much for this recipe! My husband will not let me leave out the creamed onions for Thanksgiving. This sounds like an alternative that would excite me much more than the frozen box I usually heat up just for him. (Please don't tell the foo...more
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Hi, I made this for our Thanksgiving dinner and it was just perfect. I'll never buy those frozen things again! Thanks so much for the recipe.
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