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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F | 2. Peel and trim onions, keeping root ends intact, then halve each lengthwise. | 3. Arrange, cut sides up, in 1 layer in a 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish or other 2 1/2-quart shallow baking dish. | 4. Bring tomato juice, water, butter, molasses, and salt to a boil in a 2-quart heavy saucepan, stirring occasionally, then pour over onions. | 5. Bake onions, uncovered, basting with juices every 30 minutes, until tender, about 2 hours. | 6. Lay 2 pieces of bacon side by side over each onion half and continue to bake onions, basting once with juices halfway through baking, until onions are very tender, bacon is browned, and juices are thickened, about 1 hour more. | 7. Cooks' note: | 8. Onions can be baked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Reheat, covered with foil, in a preheated 350°F oven 20 to 30 minutes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
onion	4		sweet	240.0	56.04	6.6	0.6
tomato juice	1 1/2	cups		61.965	12.8668	3.0982	1.057
water	1 1/2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
butter	2	tablespoons	unsalted	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
molasses	2	tablespoons		122.1625	31.48	0.0	0.0421
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
bacon	8	slices		934.08	2.8672	28.2688	88.9056

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.