This baked sweet onion pie is a classic southern recipe. Made with Vidalia onions, crackers (Ritz or saltines), eggs, cheese, milk and butter. Delicious savoury pie!
Prep Time: 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 55 minutesminutes
Total Time: 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings: 8servings
Ingredients
Pie Crust
2 1/2cupscrumbled crackers, Ritz or saltine crackers
1/3cupmelted butter
Pie Filling
2tbspbutter
2 1/2cupsthinly sliced vidalia onions
3/4cupmilk
2eggs
1/2tspsalt
1/4tspblack pepper
dashhot sauce
3/4cupgrated cheddar cheese
1/2tspdry parsley, optional
Instructions
Preheat oven for 350F.
Mix the melted butter into the crumbled crackers until the butter is absorbed all the crackers are wet with the butter. Evenly spread into a 9 inch pie pan and press on the bottom and along the sides to make a pie shell.
Heat the 2 tbsp butter in a skillet over medium low heat. Add the sliced onions and saute until they are tender. This should take about 10 minutes.
While the onions are sauteeing, whisk together the milk, eggs, salt, pepper and hot sauce in a bowl until well mixed.
Once the onions are tender, evenly spread on the cracker pie crust. Pour egg mixture over the onions in the pie crust. Top with grated cheese and parsley.