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Hungry Girl Today: 6.24.08



CHEW THE RIGHT THING



BITE IT!

HG's Bloomin' Blossom



Flower Power

This swap for those notorious fried onion appetizers is slightly more

complicated than our other recipes -- but it is SO, SO, SOOOO worth it! And

if you share this giant thing with 3 pals (instead of 1), each serving'll have

just 96 calories, <1g fat and a POINTS® value of 1*. Rock on, Bloomin'

Blossom! (Pssst... click here for an easy-to-follow printable version of this

recipe.)



Ingredients:



For Onion:

1 jumbo sweet onion, not peeled

1 cup Fiber One bran cereal (original), ground to a breadcrumb-like

consistency in a blender or food processor

1/2 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Original Egg Beaters)

1/4 tsp. seasoned salt (like the one by Lawry's)

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

1/8 tsp. black pepper



For Sauce:

3 tbsp. fat-free mayonnaise

2 tsp. ketchup

1/8 tsp. seasoned salt

dash chili powder



Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine ground cereal with the seasoned salt,

garlic powder, and pepper. Mix well and set aside.



Cut the top half-inch of the onion off (from the pointy side, not the flat one).

Leaving the root (bottom) intact, carefully peel the outside layer off.



Next, starting from the top, carefully cut the onion down and across the

middle, stopping about a half-inch from the root. Repeat to make a criss-

cross, cutting the onion down the middle again and stopping a half-inch from

the bottom. You should now have 4 sections still attached at the bottom. Cut

each of those sections down the middle (from the top), again stopping before

you get to the root.



Place the onion, cut side up, in a large bowl, and cover completely with ice

water. Allow to sit for 5 - 10 minutes, or until "petals" open up. (You can use

your hands to gently help pry them open once they've been soaking for

several minutes.) Remove the onion, and dry both the onion and the bowl.



Once both are dry, place the onion back in the bowl, with the petals up. Pour

the egg substitute evenly over it, making sure to get in between all the petals

(use your hands to separate them). Swirl egg substitute around so the

bottom and sides of the onion get coated. Then flip the onion over to drain

excess egg substitute. The entire surface of the onion should be covered

lightly with egg substitute. Transfer onion to a separate, dry bowl. (You'll

likely have about half the egg substitute left in the first bowl.)



Slowly sprinkle ground cereal mixture evenly over the onion, making sure to

thoroughly coat each petal -- again, use your hands to separate them --

flipping the onion upside-down once you're almost done coating, so that the

entire surface gets coated in crumbs. (If needed, spread a little more egg

substitute on any dry spots to get the crumbs to stick.) Spray a baking dish

with nonstick spray, and place the onion in it with the petals facing up.



Place dish in the oven and bake for about 40 minutes (until outside is crispy

and inside is soft). Meanwhile, combine sauce ingredients. When onion is

done, allow it to cool slightly. If you like, carefully cut out the center of the

onion (so petals are easy to remove). Serve with sauce and enjoy! MAKES 2

SERVINGS



Serving Size: half of recipe (including half of the sauce)

Calories: 192

Fat: 1.75g

Sodium: 700mg

Carbs: 54g

Fiber: 17g

Sugars: 13g

Protein: 7g



POINTS® value 3*











FIGHT IT!

Chili's Awesome Blossom



Flaw-some Blossom

If you're alive and breathing (and we assume you are if you're reading your

email), you probably have the desire (every so often) to order one of those

ginormous deep-fried onion thingees served at chain restaurants. The 2,710-

calorie appetizer is freakishly tempting -- it's lurking at your local Chili's and

goes by the name Awesome Blossom. (And though Outback Steakhouse

doesn't make their nutritional stats public, we're guessing the Bloomin' Onion

there is at least as bad.) But what did you expect? It's an onion that's been

hacked wide open (exposing WAY too much surface area) and then battered

and fried. Every nook and cranny of that ginormous thing is covered in oily

batter! And there's always one nutty person at the table who insists on

ordering it. But be careful, because even nibbling on 1/6th of that thing

(which isn't very much at all) would set you back more than 450 calories and

over 33 grams of fat (POINTS® value 11*). Ahhhhhhh!!! The good news is

that you can now whip up your very own diet-friendly version at home --

sauce and all. Yeee-haaaaaaa!



Serving Size: half an order (including half of the sauce)

Calories: 1,355

Fat: 101.5g

Sodium: 3,180mg

Carbs: 97g

Fiber: 7.5g

Sugars: n.a.

Protein: 12g



POINTS® value 35*





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Want More Fried Food Makeovers? Head to your local bookstore and snap up

a copy of the HG cookbook, Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for

Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. You'll find lots of "fried" food recipes and

so much more!



CHEW ON THIS:

We're officially dubbing today, June 24th, Faux-Fried Onion Day. Feel free to

celebrate with either our classic Lord of the Onion Rings or our brand-new

Bloomin' Blossom!



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*The Points® values for these products and/or recipes were calculated by

Hungry Girl and are not an endorsement or approval of the product, recipe

or its manufacturer or developer by Weight Watchers International, Inc., the

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