This week’s theme was a little bit different than themes of the past. Instead of focusing on dietary restrictions, I decided to center this week’s theme on a (delicious) ingredient: caramelized onions! Every recipe has caramelized onions as an ingredient. To make a bunch of caramelized onions, I just threw a bag of thinly sliced onions in my slow cooker with some olive oil and set it on low for 12 hours. It smelled amazing!

Ryan was away this week, so I did my meal prep with a friend. Together we made 16 total servings.

Yassa Poulet Loco Moco BAR Salad

The recipes include:

Loco Moco: 464 cal, 23g fat, 32g carb, 34g protein

Yassa Poulet: 459 cal, 30g fat, 17g carb, 26g protein

BAR-inspired Salad

It turns out that recipes including caramelized onions tend to be super rich, so we had to modify them somewhat. For the loco moco, we reduced the rice by half and substituted ground turkey for half of the ground beef. We also roasted some radishes and put them on the side. For the Yassa Poulet, we had some roasted Brussels sprouts on the side.

The BAR-inspired salad is based on a salad from a local pizza place. Our version includes olive oil and balsamic vinegar with goat cheese crumbles, diced pears, caramelized onions, candied walnuts, and greens. I didn’t calculate the nutrition information for this salad, but it’s definitely tasty!

If you have the time to cook caramelized onions in the slow-cooker, I would suggest it. Some recipes indicated that it only needed 8 hours, but 12 was totally great! Makes for a good overnight crock pot food.