Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 lg Vidalia onion
Vegetable spray
2 ts Margarine, soy or safflower
Salt
Pepper; ground
1 tb Pecans; chopped

With sharp knife, carefully peel onion and trim root end, leaving it
intact. Standing onion on its root end, cut parallel vertical slices
at 1/4-inch intervals into, but not through, onion, stopping aout 1/2
inch above root end. Rotate onion 90 degrees; cut parallel vertical
slices in same manner to form a crosshatch pattern, keeping onion
intact. Coat microwave-safe pie plate with vegetable spray. Place
onion, root end down, in center of pie plate. Drizzle with margarine,
and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Cover with waxed paper and microwave on High (100% power) 3 minutes.
Baste with cooking liquid and rotate dish. Cover and microwave on
High 3 to 4 minutes longer, or until onion spreads open into a
"flower." Sprinkle flower with pecans; microwave on High 1 to 2
minutes longer, or until flower appears translucent.
With wide spatula, remove onion flower from pie plate to serving
plate.

Per serving: About 65 cal, 1 g pro, 12 g carb, 2 g fat, 28% cal from
fat, 0 mg chol, 31 mg sod

From _Low-Fat Meals_ (Woman's Day) Vol III, Number 5

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