Everyone has onions and sometimes too many they are often bought in bulk. Once in a while I will use whatever I have and clean out my basket of onions. I will either do an onion soup or perhaps a quiche however, the other night I did filo pastry parcels filled with onions and gruyere cheese. It will definitely not be the last time I do that. They were delicious.

Ingredients

2 white onions

1 red onion

2 cloves garlic

1 tbsp olive oil

150 g grated gruyere cheese

50 g grated emmenthal cheese

250 ml. sour cream

1 egg

a dash of salt and pepper

Ready made filo dough sheets

a bit of olive oil for brushing the parcels

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees celcius.

Finely slice the onions. Finely dice the cloves of garlic.

Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onions and garlic until soft and golden.

Let the onions cool a bit while grating the cheese. In a bowl, mix the cheese with the sour cream, egg and the onions, salt and pepper.

Unfold your filo pastry but only as you will use it, as it does dry out fast. As filo dough comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, the easiest for me is to explain what I do. I usually buy them in larger sheets (50 cm x 35 cm). I brush one sheet with oil, flip it, at “glue” it together with the sheet underneath (they usually come in “stacks”.) With scissors, I cut the 2 sheets into 5 lanes measuring approximately 10 cm x 35 cm. I add a spoonful of onion mixture to the bottom right corner of each lane, quickly folding each lane upwards into triangles – in the end folding them several times. These two sheets give you 5 triangular parcels.

Placing the parcels on a baking tray lined with baking paper, I brush them with oil both to make them crispy, add color and also to make sure that they are closed proper as the oil will work as “glue” when closing the parcel with the last fold. Some people prefer using melted butter (glee), however I find that oil works just as well.

Pop them in the oven, bake for approximately 20 minutes (keep an eye on them and take them out when crisp and golden) and that is it.