Healthy snacks: baked with cheese "flower" from the bow

Popular budget snack - onion "flower" - is becoming more useful due to baking in the oven, while retaining the sweetness and textural variety. Ideal for parties and alternative to the usual onion rings.

Ingredients:

• 3 medium onions;
• 6 slices of soft cheese (mozzarella, suluguni);
• 3 eggs;
• ½ cup flour;
• ½ teaspoon of paprika and the dried parsley;
• 2 cups bread crumbs.

To prepare the onion "colors" in the oven is better to take the young medium sized onion and cleaned from the husk and the film, removing them immediately with the first, the most rigid, fiber pulp. After purification both ends of the bulbs carefully cut, taking care not to remove excess and to keep all the layers connected by the base.

Purified bulb notch conducting knife crosswise, leaving to the base about a half centimeter. You do not accidentally cut through the bulb through, you can use the trick with blades, which was used in the hasselbek potatoes recipe.

The number of segments depends on the size of the bulb and preferences with respect to the width of the "petals". The resulting "petals" carefully separated from each other, revealing the "bud".

Prepare a batter of eggs, flour, salt and spices.

Between the rows of "petals" put on a thin slice of cheese. It should control their generosity and not use too thick slices to "flower" is not cracked.

Now, time to get dirty. Stuffed onions cheese first dip in batter, let surplus drip off, then sprinkle all the bread crumbs.

Bake "flowers" at 200 degrees 25 minutes or until soft onion leaves.

Serve onion "flower" in the company of loved hot sauce.