Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion Recipe
Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion is a mouthwatering appetizer featuring a colossal onion, expertly hand-carved, coated in a savory seasoned batter, and deep-fried to golden perfection, served with a zesty dipping sauce.
Make our Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion Recipe at home tonight for your family. Our Secret Restaurant Recipes for the Bloomin’ Onion and Creamy Chili Dipping Sauce tastes just like Outback Steakhouse’s.
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Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion Recipe
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Outback Steakhouse’s Blooming Onion Recipe is one of the most popular family favorites on the internet.
There is a good reason. The Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion (or “Bloomin’ Onion”) is a very popular restaurant favorite. It consists of one large sweet Vidalia onion which is cut to resemble a flower, breaded and deep fried. It is served as an appetizer with a tangy dipping sauce at Outback Steakhouses — and they claim it is the most popular appetizer in America.
Now you can make it at home, anytime for a fraction of the cost with Secret Copycat Restaurant Recipes Blog’s Outback Steakhouse’s Blooming Onion Recipe.
Outback Steakhouse claims to be the dish’s inventor. However, the owners of Scotty’s Steak House in Springfield, New Jersey claim to have invented this dish in the 1970s. The dish was a charter feature of the Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain when it opened in 1988, and remains prominent on its menu. Its popularity has led to its adoption as an appetizer at various other restaurant chains, most notably Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, where it is best known as the “Texas Rose” and Chili’s, where is was known as the “Awesome Blossom” (The Awesome Blossom is no longer available at Chili’s, but you can make it at home. Click HERE for the Recipe).
All different versions of these fried onions are served with a restaurant-specific signature dipping sauce.
Despite the implied association with Australian cuisine due to Outback Steakhouse’s branding, the dish is unknown in Australia and rarely served outside of the United States.
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Outback Steakhouse Blooming Onion Recipe Notes
- Note 1 – Be sure to choose a Large Sweet Onion, preferably a Vidalia, for your Blooming Onion. This is what Outback uses and they taste best when fried.
Outback Steakhouse's Blooming Onion Recipe
Make Outback Steakhouse's Blooming Onion Recipe at home tonight for your family. Our Secret Restaurant Recipe for their Bloomin' Onion and Creamy Chili Dipping Sauce tastes just like Outback Steakhouse's.
Yield: 6 Appetizer Servings
Ingredients
- Large Vidalia or Texas Sweet Onion (See Note 1 Above)
- Vegetable Oil to deep fry
- Outback Steakhouse's Blooming Onion Creamy Chili Dipping Sauce (See Recipe Below this Box)
Batter
- 1/3 cup Cornstarch
- 1 1/2 cup Flour
- 2 teaspoons Garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper to taste
- 24 ounces Good Beer
Seasoned Flour
- 2 cup Flour
- 4 teaspoons Paprika
- 2 teaspoons Garlic Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1/4 teaspoons Cayenne Pepper
Instructions
- Prepare Outback Steakhouse's Blooming Onion Creamy Chili Dipping Sauce according to recipe below. Set aside.
Batter
- To a large bowl add all Batter ingredients, except beer. Mix well.
- Add beer. Mix well. Set aside.
Seasoned Flour
- In another large bowl, add all Seasoned Flour ingredients. Mix well. Set aside.
Onion
- Cut about 3/4 inch off top of onion and peel.
- Cut into onion 12 to 16 vertical wedges, but do not cut through bottom root end.
- Remove about 1 inch of petals from center of onion.
- Dip onion in seasoned flour and remove excess by shaking.
- With your hand, separate petals. Then dip onion into batter to coat thoroughly.
Cook
- Gently place in fryer basket and deep-fry at 375 - 400°F for 1 1/2 minutes. Turn over and fry an additional 1 1/2 minutes.
- When done to a golden brown, remove from oil and drain on paper towels.
Serve
- Place onion upright in shallow bowl and remove center core with circular cutter or apple corer.
- Serve hot with Creamy Chili Sauce (Recipe Below) placed in center of onion (See Photo Above).
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Outback Steakhouse's Blooming Onion Creamy Chili Dipping Sauce Recipe
Yield: 4
Ingredients
- 1 pint Mayonnaise (We always use Duke’s Mayonnaise.)
- 1 pint Sour Cream
- 1/2 cup Chili Sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a small bowl. Mix well.
- Pour into a serving cup small enough to fit into center of onion. Reserve excess to refill serving cup. 😉 (We wish Outback would do this!)
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- Bobby Flay’s FoodNation Vidalia Onion Dip – This recipe, featured on Bobby Flay’s FoodNation, comes from the homes around Vidalia, GA where the famous sweet Vidalia Onions are grown So you know it is good.
Photo of “Bloomin’ Onion” is by Mack Male and is used by permission under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Creative Commons License. Read the Full License Here – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode. Thank you, Mack. Great Picture. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes formally widely-circulated on the internet – courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Outback Steakhouse information courtesy of Outback.com and Wikipedia, where it is used by permission. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
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August 20, 2012 @ 1:55 pm
Hey Guys checkout this Recipe for Out Backs Blooming Onion
@VionaMarieWorleyHowery:
May 4, 2013 @ 1:10 pm
@VionaMarieWorleyHowery:
August 22, 2012 @ 9:59 am
? Really cut 3/4 off the top of the onion and remove 1of the petals from the center. ? Typo.
Kathy, Thank you.
Those should have said “3/4 inch” and “1 inch.”
Not so much Typo as not noticing that the blog changed “in.” to a “?”. Who knows why. Teach me to spell things out next time. 🙂
I have changed it now in the recipe.
Thanks again and enjoy.
Mark
August 21, 2013 @ 3:36 pm
@Kathy Stephen: You must have looked over “inch” .
@Lisa: Lisa, Thank you for sticking up for us. But in Kathy’s defense, the blog did somehow change the word “inch” to a “?” Thanks to her comment we corrected the recipe to what you see today.
September 8, 2012 @ 5:10 pm
My Husband and I LOVE the Outback, however as much as we love to eat there, we can no longer order the Blooming Onion…to many Blooming Calories. DARN!!!
Jackie,
HA! Don’t I know it, Too.
Thanks for the comment.
Mark
September 10, 2012 @ 12:26 am
I have made this at many cookouts and it is a big hit
Could you please put a video on how to open the onion into petals? you put a video on how to stir the dipping sauce, but we could figure that one out. Please put the onion to video for us…. Thanks
April 29, 2013 @ 2:29 pm
I saw a cooking show once and they divulged the secret to opening the onion into pedals. You cut the onion then soak it in ice water. That loosens the pedals. @penny:
December 31, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
If we don’t have a deep fryer, can we place in oven?
February 28, 2013 @ 5:37 pm
Put Crisco or oil half way to top in large spaghetti pot and heat oil.After you deep fry the oions then, Wait for oil to cool down strain and put in glass contaner and put in refrigerator for next use.Very easy!
April 28, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
@Lorraine: How long do you fry the onion in the stock pot?
April 8, 2013 @ 9:42 am
I have found that after cutting the wedges into the onion, if you put the onion in a bowl of cold water, it begins to loosen and separate on its own, making plenty of room for the batter to get all the way to the bottom of the inside wedges.
July 12, 2013 @ 11:54 am
Blooming onion – outback
August 3, 2013 @ 11:54 am
To make the petals “bloom” better, after cutting, submerge petals (make sure root does not get wet) into ice water for 1 hour. This swells petals and the spread apart as if “blooming”.
August 8, 2013 @ 10:13 am
why dont you print a book with sauces for wing,barabecue sauces,chilirecipe,print a book for each one if avob recipe
Thank you, Hector.
We actually do have some recipe books we would like to write eventually. Right now they are just in the “idea stage.” But we will let you know as soon as we do.
Mark
August 22, 2013 @ 5:28 pm
Can you put something other than beer in this recipe?
@Christine: The “bubbles” in the beer are what gives the batter its light texture.
If you are worried about the alcohol — it burns off during the cooking. If it is the taste — I really don’t taste a heavy beer taste in the finished product (I do love beer, though. However, my Mom HATES the taste of beer, but loves Bloomin’ Onions.)
If you have other objections to beer — I have not tried anything else (I love beer. 🙂 ) but I have seen on a couple of boards that people have had success with Sprite (“makes it taste sweeter, though.”) and Club Soda. Basically, anything with “bubbles” should work in theory. You will affect the taste, though.
I hope this helps. Please let everyone know what you try and if it works.
Thanks for taking the time to write.
June 29, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
i used to work there and i have to say this is pretty close to how its actually made but there are some differences.
August 21, 2014 @ 6:26 am
Hi im from uk so would our cornflour be the same as your cornstarch? Party on sunday and think this would be fab to serve
Yvonne,
Sorry we didn’t see this until today. Did you try the Bloomin’ Onion? I hope the party was fun with or without the Bloomin’ Onion.
To answer your question – Yes. Corn starch, Corn flour, cornstarch, cornflour and maize starch are all different names for the same thing, a pure starch obtained from the endosperm of the corn (maize) kernel.
I hope this helps and, if we missed the last party, be sure to make one for the next. Your friends will LOVE it!
Alton
November 11, 2014 @ 8:37 am
I admit to being a simpleton at times but, I notice there are 4 onions in the Ingredients section but there’s no further mention of multiple onions in the directions. So, the question is are the ingredient quantities for 4 onions or for one?
The advice from others to place the cut onions in ice cold water to aid in the opening up of the onion is quite valid. In fact, if you take a small green onion and make several splits in the green part of the onion, place it in ice cold water, the green part will spread out in a flower like effect and thus becomes a nice decorative effect for use in salads
Jim B.
I’m not sure why that said 4. It wasn’t meant to.
No, you can make as many as you want — until your breading runs out — but one will probably do you for most times — as you are probably aware if you have had a Bloomin’ Onion at Outback.
We have changed the recipe.
Thank you for the comment about the cold water.
Alton
November 23, 2014 @ 5:44 pm
Extended following his football and racing careers, Dan partnered with Lee Donabedian whose family owned and operated Rube’s Steakhouse in Simi Valley California. They became wonderful friends over the years and along with mutual friend Manny Asadurian, the three formed ‘Christmas for Young children,’ a non-profit fundraiser hosted each and every year at Rube’s exactly where they served the BBQ rubs.
February 20, 2016 @ 5:02 pm
What does Chile sauce consist of? Is it actual ground beef and chilli seasoning?
Chili sauce is a made with vine ripened tomatoes, garlic, sweet peppers and aromatic spices (according to Heinz.) It can be found in any grocery here in the US but may not be available where you live. Here are links to couple of good chili sauces available on Amazon. Heinz Chili Sauce – http://amzn.to/1L9Yh60 Huy Fong Chili Garlic Sauce – http://amzn.to/1T5gS6c
September 29, 2016 @ 11:58 am
Did you ever think about making these bloomin onions and freezing them to sell in grocery stores to be made at home?
I think Outback would frown upon that, Shirley. We’ll just keep enjoying them at home and suggest you do, too.
Thanks for writing.
Alton
May 31, 2017 @ 4:33 pm
okay so i’m confused. The ingredient list has batter and seasoned flour as separate. The batter contains flour, does this mean the seasoned flour? I’m confused why there are two sections.
April 22, 2018 @ 11:55 am
I have the same question!
November 6, 2018 @ 10:52 am
Same question here. In fact I was searching the comments to see if that was answered. Directions say to add the beer to the flour mixture, then it says to dip onion in flour mixture then follow with batter……..
March 10, 2019 @ 9:34 pm
made it n it was a gross as it smelled.
October 13, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
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August 28, 2022 @ 9:46 pm
You can use a carbonated non flavored sparkling water instead of beer.
We’ve never tried it – But, I would say that would work.
Thanks for the question.
James