Baked Onions With Gruyere

This recipe comes from morton's, a venerable steakhouse, and their cookbook, morton's the cookbook: 100 recipes for every kitchen.""

Preheat oven to 400 deg f.

Coat a large , shallow baking dish with cooking spray or oil.

The dish should be large enough to hold the onion halves.

Trim about 1 / 4 inch off top and bottom of the onions , so that the halves will sit flat.

Cut the onions in half crosswise and then peel them.

Arrange the halves , middle cut side up , in the baking dish.

Brush the exposed onion tops with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Bake about 35 minutes.

In a glass measuring cup , combine the broth and soy sauce.

Remove the onions from the oven , pour the broth mixture over the onions.

Return the baking dish to the oven , and bake an hour longer , basting from time to time.

If the sauce gets very low , add some water.

Remove the dish from the oven and sprinkle evenly with the cheese and chopped sage.

Bake 5 to 7 minutes longer , or until the cheese melts.

sweet white onions, extra virgin olive oil, salt, fresh ground black pepper, low sodium beef broth, low sodium soy sauce, gruyere, fresh sage