Chan loves onions so when I saw this recipe for a one-pan caramelized onion pasta – I had to make it!! I don’t know how you folks cook but when I follow someone else’s recipes – I follow it to a T in the beginning. After the first try, I will then know what tweaks I need to do to make it better. Chan’s comment was that there was something a bit off about this dish, when I told him I squeezed an entire lemon into it – he realized that’s what it was. He added a bit of MSG afterwards and liked it. I liked it with and without the MSG – I like that it is a very savory dish and I didn’t miss not having meat in it. It’s a very easy dish to make other than cutting up like 5 onions…the onions and garlic roasts up very nice in the oven for the hour.
Look at all those onions…yes, I cried
Onions with the bulb of garlic and seasonings ready for the oven…
Out of the oven after an hour (stirred it around 30 minutes in)…doesn’t that look great??
One Pan Caramelized Onion Pasta
Ingredients
5 small yellow onions sliced, or 3 large
1 head garlic top sliced off
½ cup sun dried tomatoes chopped
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp paprika
1 tsp dried parsley
½ cup coconut milk
3 cups farfalle pasta cooked
1 handful fresh parsley chopped
1 handful fresh basil chopped
1 lemon juiced
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400F.
To a casserole dish, add the onions, sun dried tomatoes, paprika, salt, pepper and dried parsley.
Toss, and then place the whole garlic head in the middle. Drizzle the entire dish with olive oil or the leftover sun dried tomato oil, cover with foil, and then pop in the oven for 1 hour, tossing halfway through. The onions should be caramelized by the time it comes out of the oven.
About 20 minutes before the casserole dish is done, prepare the pasta according to package directions, reserving up to a cup of pasta water.
Remove the garlic from the casserole dish, and when safe to handle, squeeze out the cloves. Add the fresh parsley, basil, lemon juice and coconut milk, along with the cooked pasta and pasta water as needed. Stir and enjoy!