This Grilled Sweet Onions Recipe is a fun way to make a simple side dish! The best thing about sweet grilled onions is that they go with just about anything! Be sure to check out the rest of my Easy Grilled Vegetable Recipes for more healthy and delicious side dish options!
The moment that you caramelize onions, your life is going to be changed!
Even the kids are going to love this grilled onion with bouillon cube recipe. Not only is it flavorful, but using sweet onions on the grill is really a fun way to cook them up, too!
One thing that I’ve found about cooking grilled Vidalia onions in foil is that you just can’t mess it up! The aluminum foil and the grill grates cook those thick slices perfectly every single time!
Grilled Sweet Onions Recipe
While I always love using sweet onions for this recipe, you can easily use yellow onions as well. If you’re a fan of onions, you might as well try them all! Adding the beef bouillon cube creates a great flavor that permeates throughout the rest of the onion. This recipe is seriously so simple to do!
My boys love to slice the onion and stir the onion around in the foil to make sure that they’re getting all that goodness. As long as they eat them, that’s all that matters to me!
Do you peel the outer layer of onion before cooking it?
You’ll find the best way to cut and cook the onions in the recipe card below. There’s a magic to the madness, and I explain it all there. You are going to need to cut to the center of the onion so that you can add in the other ingredients while cooking.
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- beef bouillon cubes
- Margarine (you could use olive oil as well)
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Can you use grilled onions in other recipes?
You bet! It’s great for adding to stir fry or for making onion dip, too! Once you cook it, you can literally add the onion to just about anything that you’d like.
More Onion Recipes:
- Delicious Ground Beef and Onion Soup Mix Recipes
- Super Easy Sour Cream and Onion Dip
- Glazed Pearl Onions
Grilled Sweet Onions Recipe
This is a favorite easy summer recipe my mom recently shared with me - it tastes like you're biting into French onion soup!
Ingredients
- 2 whole sweet onions I used Vidalia®
- 2 beef bouillon cubes
- 2 teaspoons low calorie margarine divided
- 2 12 x12-inch squares aluminum foil
Instructions
- Preheat an outdoor grill to medium heat. Hubby used his gas grill, but any kind would work fine. (My mom actually uses a plastic container to cook hers in the microwave.)
- Peel brown outer layers from onions. Using a sharp knife, cut a cone-shaped core from the top of each onion, about 2/3 of the way into the vegetable. The core should be about 1 1/2 inches wide at the top. Insert a bouillon cube into the hollowed-out space in each onion.
- Top each with 1 teaspoon of margarine. Wrap each filled onion in a single sheet of aluminum foil, leaving a small vent at the top of each.
- Set the foil-wrapped onions on the preheated grill vent-sides up, and grill until onions are tender, 20 to 30 minutes.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 112Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 504mgCarbohydrates: 25gFiber: 3gSugar: 17gProtein: 3g
Have so much fun making these grilled onions! The flavor is sooooooo good!
Linda
Tuesday 13th of June 2023
Could these onions be made in the oven??
Thena
Tuesday 31st of October 2023
Yes, you could make this recipe in the oven. I would cook then at 325 degrees for 40-50 minutes, or until they're as tender as you would like. You might want to stir them a couple times while they're cooking as well.
April
Wednesday 27th of June 2012
What a delicious looking meal! Perfect for summer.