Recipe: Perfect Sweet Onion and Cheddar Pie

Sweet Onion and Cheddar Pie. Remove bacon and cook onion in the same pan with butter until transparent. Stir in crumbled bacon and pour into pie pan over ritz crust. Mix eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together and pour over onions.

Remove bacon and cook onion in the same pan with butter until transparent. Stir in crumbled bacon and pour into pie pan over ritz crust. Mix eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together and pour over onions. You can cook Sweet Onion and Cheddar Pie using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sweet Onion and Cheddar Pie

1. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of crushed ritz crackers.
2. You need 2-3 of sweet onions.
3. It's 4-5 strips of bacon.
4. It's 2/3 stick of butter melted(for crust).
5. You need 2 tbsp of butter(to cook onions).
6. Prepare 1 cup of cheddar.
7. Prepare 2 of eggs.
8. It's 3/4 cup of milk.
9. You need 3/4 tsp of salt.
10. Prepare Dash of pepper.
11. It's 1/4 tsp of paprika.

This Sweet Onion Turkey Cheddar Pie starts with a generous amount of sweet, caramelized Vidalia onions that are combined with shredded cooked turkey, eggs and a mix of seasonings including salt and pepper, fresh nutmeg, dry mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. A few (optional) shakes of Tabasco sauce are also added for a touch of bright flavor. I would like to share this wonderful pie with a little history to it. We happened to stop in Georgia, and purchased a bag of the states delicious sweet (GA.)Vandalia onions,along with this great buttery sweet stuffed onion pie recipe.

Sweet Onion and Cheddar Pie step by step

1. Mix ritz crumbs and melted butter and press into a 8" pie pan.
2. In a large pan cook bacon..
3. Remove bacon and cook onion in the same pan with butter until transparent..
4. Stir in crumbled bacon and pour into pie pan over ritz crust..
5. Mix eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together and pour over onions. Sprinkle with cheese, and paprika..
6. Bake at 350° for 30 min..
7. Serve hot..

Years later I moved to Spokane, WA.and now enjoy the states great,Walla Walla sweet onions. The natural sweetness of Vidalia onions melds beautifully with the sharpness of the cheddar cheese and the cracker crust's saltiness, creating a scrumptious pie savory pie you will find yourself baing again and again. It doesn't hurt if you use the famous sweet onion of the South, Vidalia onions, which hail from Georgia. Vidalia onions work perfectly in this recipe and that is why I wait til Vidalia season each year to bake up this cheese and onion pie. Some of the colonial versions of an onion pie also had apples and potatoes in the pie mix.