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    Published: Dec 4, 2020 · Modified: Dec 14, 2022 · This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking through my links.

    Baked Onions Recipe with Tofu Stuffing

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    Onions are versatile vegetables that can be eaten in a variety of ways. In this recipe, they are baked with savory stuffing made from tofu and vegetables. This dish is healthy, filling, and delicious. It has so many flavors and textures in one dish, making it hearty enough to be served as the main course for a special dinner or an appetizer for a party.

    baked onions recipe plated in glass baking dish on a Christmas dinner table.
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    This recipe for stuffed onions calls for porcini mushrooms and firm tofu to make a sublime stuffing. They are a total game-changer and one of our favorite porcini mushroom recipes!

    Porcini mushrooms are freshly available during the fall season, so it is easier to find dishes that rely on this delicious mushroom as part of the fall recipes favorites.

    This recipe makes a perfect Holiday season side dish or can even make the main dish if serving more than one.

    Jump to:
    • 🧾 Ingredients
    • 🔪 Instructions
    • 👪 Scaling
    • 📖 Variations
    • 🥡 Storage
    • 🥢 How to serve
    • 🍄 More porcini mushrooms recipes
    • 📋 Recipe
    • ❓FAQ
    • 🌡️ Food safety
    • 💬 Reviews and Comments

    🧾 Ingredients

    baked onions recipe ingredients on a table.
    • Large yellow onions
    • Porcini mushrooms
    • White wine
    • Garlic
    • Extra firm tofu
    • Dried tomatoes
    • Gluten-free bread crumbs
    • Mushrooms
    • Canned tomatoes
    • Nutritional yeast
    • Fresh parsley

    Optional: spring onions, vegan butter, olive oil.

    See quantities and complete instructions in the recipe card.

    🔪 Instructions

    Step 1: Prepare the stock.

    Simmer the porcini mushroom in boiling water for 5 minutes and set aside.

    vegetable stock with wooden spoon.

    Step 2: Prepare the onions.

    Peel each whole onion carefully. With a sharp knife, cut the tops and bottoms of the onions.

    cutting yellow onions from top to bottom.

    Then cut top to bottom, placing the knife's tip at the center of the onion.

    removing onion inner flesh.

    Remove the onion's inner flesh and reserve it for the stuffing.

    Hint: carefully remove the inner layers (onion flesh), reserve the onion flash for another use, or chop centers and replace the spring onions for the stuffing.

    Remove the outer layers carefully.

    Remove the outer layers carefully.

    hand showing onions' layers with removed center.

    The smaller the holes, the better.

    Step 3. Briefly cook the onion's outer layers.

    Take off the porcini mushrooms from the saucepan and add the white wine, 1 cup at a time. Simmer for a few minutes, and briefly cook the onion layer, a few at a time. They should not cook much. They only need to be a little tender, as the cooking process will finalize in the oven.

    Set aside and let them cool, as you will handle them later with your hands.

    Preheat oven to medium-high heat, 350 ºF (175ºC).

    Step 4: Making the vegan stuffing mix.

    On a medium saucepan, stir the chopped stuffing ingredients, beginning with chopped onion and garlic, then the crumbled tofu, and chopped dried tomatoes, until you add all the remaining ingredients.

    Mix everything, occasionally stirring, until you have a nice texture.

    Hint: don't use a food processor; you need your stuffing textures! Add more liquid if needed.

    Remove from heat and add the bread crumbs and nutritional yeast to the saucepan or a large bowl. Then season with a teaspoon of salt and ground black pepper.

    saucepan with cooked tofu stuffing.

    Step 5: assemble the boiled onions with the vegetarian stovetop stuffing.

    cooked onion layers with tofu stuffing ready to be stuffed.

    Prepare your table to start stuffing the onion shells and line a baking dish with cooking spray or just a little olive oil.

    Stuff the onions with the help of a spoon and secure them with a toothpick.

    Step 5. baking stove top stuffing inside of the onions.

    Your stuffed onions recipe will be ready after 45-50 minutes. The stuffed onions are best served warm.

    👪 Scaling

    The tofu stuffing for these roasted onions can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge until ready to use. This stuffed onion recipe makes about six onions, perfect for feeding 2-4 people, depending on appetite size!

    These baked stuffed onions can make an excellent side dish. If you want to serve these roasted onions recipes as the main dish, we suggest calculating two per person.

    I recommend using a pretty baking dish for cooking this porcini recipe, you can even plate the onions using the same dish. If you do so, use a glass or ceramic one.

    baked onions with toothpick and vegetable stock in a baking dish.

    📖 Variations

    • Tartness - If you like to add some additional festive and tart notes to your stuffing, you can add a handful of dried cranberries to the stuffing while it cooks.
    • Stuffing volume - You can also add cooked rice to your stuffing to make it bigger. Adjust the seasoning accordingly.
    • Onions - Sweet onions also work well for this stuffed onions recipe. After you separate the onion shells, the spring onions can be replaced by the remaining onions.
    • Gluten-free - you can omit the bread crumbs or use gluten-free breadcrumbs. If you skip them, we suggest making a chia egg or flax egg with 1 tablespoon of chia seeds plus 3 warm water. This will help to thicken the stuffing. Also, you should add them while the filling is still being cooked.

    🥡 Storage

    It’s a great recipe for friends and family because it can be made ahead, refrigerated overnight, or frozen in advance.

    Store leftover onions in the fridge for up to 3 days, covered in an airtight container.

    Freeze the tofu stuffing and keep it for up to 2 months. To use it, let it thaw overnight and use it on your favorite stuffed vegetable recipes, such as stuffed peppers, pasta shells, stuffed zucchini, or eggplants.

    You can also have the stuffing with an Italian bread loaf, focaccia bread, cornbread, stuffing, or vegan bread buns.

    🥢 How to serve

    You may want to serve them alongside some roasted root vegetables like maple-glazed carrots, parsnips, turnips, and potatoes. If you have time before dinner prep starts on Thanksgiving Day, try to roast these ingredients in the oven while preparing other dishes from our blog post about what you need for Thanksgiving Dinner!

    This site dish could go well with mashed sweet potatoes if you don't feel like making green beans again.

    We love indulging in these flavorful mushrooms, especially if they are from the Piedmont Region in Italy; their flavor is majestic! These stuffed portobellos and herb stuffed pioppini mushroom recipes are good examples.

    🍄 More porcini mushrooms recipes

    As for dried porcini, mushrooms are used in dishes including mushroom risotto, stuffed pasta shells, or pasta al ragu.

    Our suggested Vegan Christmas Menu Post

    • Vegan Sweet Potato and Eggplant Casserole
    • Homemade Festive Spiced Cranberry Sauce
    • White Truffled Mashed Potatoes
    • Christmas Rosemary Bread Buns
    • Green Beans with Flaked Toasted Almonds
    • Air fryer oyster mushrooms

    If you try this recipe, let us know! Leave a comment, rate it, and don’t forget to tag a photo #ourplantbasedworld on Instagram. Cheers!

    📋 Recipe

    stuffed onions

    Baked Onions Recipe with Tofu Stuffing

    Gus
    The tofu and porcini mushrooms make up entirely for any meat craving palates. The stuffing by itself can be used as a Holiday stuffing.
    5 from 25 votes
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    Prep Time 25 mins
    Cook Time 1 hr
    Total Time 1 hr 25 mins
    Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish
    Cuisine Holidays, Italian-Inspired, Mediterranean
    Servings 9 Servings
    Calories 278 kcal

    Equipment

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    Ingredients
     
     

    • 4 onions large
    • 1 ounce porcini mushrooms dried, hydrated ,and chopped (simmer in 2 cups of water to cook the onions)
    • 10 ounces cremini mushrooms chopped
    • 2 cups white wine
    • 1 tablespoon vegan butter or margarine, omit if following a WFPB diet
    • 3 spring onions chopped
    • 3 clove garlic chopped
    • 9 ounces firm tofu extra-firm, crumbled
    • 1 ounce tomatoes dried, in oil
    • 4 ounces breadcrumbs or 2 chia eggs to make it gluten-free
    • 18 ounces mushrooms cremini or portobello, quartered
    • 14 ounces tomatoes canned
    • 1.5 ounces nutritional yeast
    • 1 cup parsley finely chopped
    • 1 teaspoon sea salt optional, avoid if following a WFPB diet
    • 1 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
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    Directions
     

    • Soak. Place the dry porcini mushrooms in a bowl with 3 cups of hot water for 5 minutes. Reserve the stock.
    • Preheat the oven to 350 ºF (175ºC). Have ready a small oiled ovenproof dish.
    • Boil. Place the mushrooms, stock, and white wine in a medium saucepan and bring to boil.

    Prepare onions:

    • Meanwhile, trim ¼ inch off the top and bottom of the onions.
    • Cut them lengthways in half and remove the brown skin.
    • Gently remove most of the insides (keep these for another use), retaining two or three of the outer layers.
    • Carefully separate the outer layers from each other and place them in the simmering stock, a few at a time. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes, or until just tender.
    • Drain well and cool slightly. Keep the stock.

    Prepare the stuffing:

    • On a Medium Saucepan, melt the margarine or vegan butter and stir fry on medium heat the crumbled tofu, chopped drained porcini mushrooms, breadcrumbs, chopped spring onions, and garlic for 5 minutes.
    • Add ½ cup of white wine, followed by half of the resulting porcini/wine stock.
    • Add the chopped canned and dry tomatoes, quartered mushrooms, nutritional yeast, chopped parsley, salt, and pepper.
    • Cook for 10 minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed.
    • Let it cool.

    Assemble and bake:

    • Fill each onion layer generously with stuffing. Pull the sides together, so you end up with a fat cigar shape and secure them with a toothpick.
      4 onions
    • Place the onions, seam-side down, in the oiled dish and pour over about ½ cup of the reserved stock, just to cover the bottom of the dish.
    • Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until de onions are soft and lightly colored, and the stuffing is bubbling; add more stock if they dry completely before the end of the cooking process. Serve warm.

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    Nutrition Facts

    Calories: 278kcalCarbohydrates: 44gProtein: 14gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gSodium: 173mgPotassium: 649mgFiber: 6gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 784IUVitamin C: 24mgCalcium: 122mgIron: 4mg
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    Nutrition Facts
    Baked Onions Recipe with Tofu Stuffing
    Amount per Serving
    Calories
    278
    % Daily Value*
    Fat
     
    2
    g
    3
    %
    Saturated Fat
     
    1
    g
    6
    %
    Trans Fat
     
    1
    g
    Polyunsaturated Fat
     
    1
    g
    Monounsaturated Fat
     
    1
    g
    Sodium
     
    173
    mg
    8
    %
    Potassium
     
    649
    mg
    19
    %
    Carbohydrates
     
    44
    g
    15
    %
    Fiber
     
    6
    g
    25
    %
    Sugar
     
    9
    g
    10
    %
    Protein
     
    14
    g
    28
    %
    Vitamin A
     
    784
    IU
    16
    %
    Vitamin C
     
    24
    mg
    29
    %
    Calcium
     
    122
    mg
    12
    %
    Iron
     
    4
    mg
    22
    %
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    ❓FAQ

    How to use porcini mushrooms?

    First, you have to make sure you are buying an authentic product. Many products are available in markets with very few mushrooms, so you should be careful when buying them.
    Porcini mushrooms have a fresh earthy smell; the younger they are, the more intense their flavor will be. You can use them for cooking different meals, like pasta, stuffing, and casseroles.
    This mushroom's special flavor and fragrance make it one of Italy’s favorite pickings during autumn, but its price forces one to choose between fresh porcini mushrooms or dried ones.

     
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    🌡️ Food safety

    • Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
    • Do not use the same utensils on cooked food that previously touched raw meat
    • Wash hands after touching raw meat
    • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
    • Never leave cooking food unattended
    • Use oils with high smoking points to avoid harmful compounds
    • Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove

    See more guidelines at USDA.gov.

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    1. Taly says

      August 17, 2021 at 3:20 pm

      5 stars
      Nunca se me hubiera ocurrido rellenar cebollas!
      Me encantó la idea!

      Reply
    2. Dannii says

      September 17, 2021 at 8:34 am

      5 stars
      What a great vegetarian alternative for Christmas. I can't wait to try this.

      Reply
    3. Anjali says

      September 17, 2021 at 8:52 am

      5 stars
      This recipe looks so hearty and satisfying and perfect for the holidays! Love that it is vegan too - yum!!

      Reply
    4. Katherine says

      September 17, 2021 at 11:03 am

      5 stars
      What a way to make the humble onion extra special! Can't wait to try this.

      Reply
      • Gus says

        September 21, 2021 at 7:47 am

        Thank you for the feedback Katherine! We're glad to hear you enjoyed our recipe.

        Reply
    5. Aimee Mars says

      September 17, 2021 at 1:50 pm

      5 stars
      What a beautiful dish and it would be perfect for Thanksgiving! Is it too early to start planning?? I'll test it out a couple of times before the big day so I have the recipe down.

      Reply
    6. Beth says

      September 17, 2021 at 2:42 pm

      5 stars
      This is absolutely delicious and so tasty! My husband and I enjoyed this the other night, and we just loved it. I’m so excited to make this again!

      Reply
    7. Sandhya S says

      December 01, 2021 at 6:46 pm

      5 stars
      FANTASTIC Vegetarian Holiday recipe - This is just the thing I need!

      Reply
    8. Chenée says

      December 01, 2021 at 6:51 pm

      5 stars
      What a fantastic dish! The flavors work so well and the stuffing is so satisfying.

      Reply
    9. Valerie says

      December 01, 2021 at 7:09 pm

      5 stars
      I have a friend that gave up meat almost a year ago that will love these. They'd make a nice surprise to bring over during the busy holiday season.

      Reply
    10. Nicole W says

      December 01, 2021 at 7:20 pm

      5 stars
      Yum, yum, yum! Love mushrooms, love onions, this recipe is a slam dunk.

      Reply
    11. Sara Welch says

      December 01, 2021 at 8:12 pm

      5 stars
      I love a good stuffed veggie recipe and this was no exception! So hearty and flavorful; easily, a new favorite!

      Reply
    12. Jacqui says

      December 11, 2021 at 8:21 pm

      5 stars
      This looks unreal! Totally making this ?

      Reply

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