Bloomin’ Onion Bread
This Bloomin’ Onion Bread is one of my favorite party appetizers. How can you go wrong with bread, cheese, and butter sauce.
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BLOOMIN’ ONION BREAD
My husband and I waited tables at Outback Steakhouse while we were in college and ate our share of Bloomin’ Onions. But the funny thing is we never actually ordered them.
If a table ordered a Bloomin’ Onion and canceled the order, the onion would sit in the window until another table ordered one which was usually just a matter of minutes.
But every once in a while there would be a lull where no orders would come in and the “Bloom” was pronounced “dead”, meaning it would not be served to customers, and all the servers got to eat it.
For some reason we always came to work starving so when this happened we ate our little hearts out.
I don’t know if there are other servers out there but I still have reoccurring nightmares where I’m in the weeds with all of my table – everyone needs a drink refill and all of my orders are wrong. I’m sooo happy when I wake up from that dream!
This naughty Bloomin’ Onion Bread has cheese stuffed in every crack and is cut just like the Bloomin’ Onion from Outback.
My family loved this but really it’s enough to feed a small army. It’s a fun way to serve bread because everyone can just pull off a piece of cheesy onion bread. This would be a great appetizer or bread for a meal.
OTHER BREAD RECIPES:
- Bloomin’ Pizza Bread
- Killer Artichoke Bread
- Taco Party Bread
- Calzone Pinwheels
- Ham and Cheese Sliders
Bloomin’ Onion Bread
Ingredients
- 1 unsliced loaf sourdough bread
- 12-16 ounces Monterey Jack cheese, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup finely diced green onion
- 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the bread lengthwise and widthwise without cutting through the bottom crust. This can be a little tricky going the second way but the bread is very forgiving.
- Place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Insert cheese slices between cuts. Combine butter, onion, and poppy seeds. Drizzle over bread. Wrap in foil; place on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Unwrap the bread and bake 10 more minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Notes
My kids destroyed it in about 10 minutes!
Nice!
I’ve had this recipe saved in my bookmarks for easily over six years now and never got around to making it. I finally sat down and did it and it is amazing! Thanks so much for the recipe, my wife and I are in love with it.
Oh so delicious!
Thank you!
Just made this for the first time,didn’t cut bread right so some pieces fell out,need practice 😉 I used fresh mozzarella and provolone cheese and onions and butter only. It is awesome.
Oh so glad to hear!
I’m very disappointed that even though you have a print button it does not work. When I pressed it, it gave me a blank page.
I’m so sorry! It works for me. What browser are you using?
To print the recipe you need to select the 3 dots at the top right and select “open in browser “ from the drop down menu. Then go back to the print button.
I made this yesterday for a friend’s barbecue. It was amazing!!! Everyone at the barbecue came back for seconds, thirds…… they loved it. By the time the main course was ready, we were all full from eating so much bread! I’ll be making this again and again.
Thanks for a terrific recipe!
You’re welcome!
I am much older than most that I would assume follow food blogs, we just celebrated our 65th anniversary
but I still like to find new ideas, and I also have serving nightmares, never worked as a server but we had
a small mom-pop store in which we served sandwiches and small platters, that has been 30 some years
and I still have dreams of total confusion and chaos in the kitchen.
Oh my gosh! Isn’t it the worst!
Hmm these look delicious, thanks for posting up this recipe, looks quite simple to make.
Simon
Absolutely delicious! The bread was a little tricky to cut, but it is very forgiving and it is totally worth it! Everyone’s reaction when trying this bread was “WOW!” – I will definitely be making this time and time again, thank you!!
Yes, it’s a little tricky but yummy!
looks super delicious and beautiful. Can’t wait to experiment with this recipe 🙂
lovely
Looks awesome…just wondering if it would be fine to use the already shredded Monterey Jack cheese? I have a package in the fridge and need to use it up.
Sure! Of course!
wow! i want this now!
Even we germans LOOOOOOOOOOOVE it *-*
You had me with bread, butter and cheese! I love you for that with everyone giving up everything yummy. If rather be fat and happy and resign myself to never fitting in skinny jeans ever again. No tea and sympathy though, I will be comforted by your recipes lol.
Haha. I agree Sharon!
My Krogers has a counter with fresh baked bred bowles….I thought a couple of them , even one for the two of us…..sounds good to me….
what about adding garlic so you get that super yummy cheesey garlic bread sort of deal?
I love garlic on everything so yes, I think that would be great.
I have those dreams all the time!!! I wake up so panicked… then I remember its been years since I worked there. Glad I’m not the only one! Just found your website and I think my 10lbs lost is out the window haha
Sorry! I’m the devil, I know…
I haven’t tried this recipe but I think for those who feel a full loaf is too much then why not individual portions made of the large rolls?
Great idea Peggy!
I made this for a party and it was AMAZING! Gone in like 20 minutes.
Wow. Good to hear!
This recipe looks great i mad it so yummy
Terrific bread to serve with pork chili verde! My entire family ate it up. Thanks for the great recipe 🙂
Can this be made ahead of time them baked or would the bread go stale in the fridge or get to hard from the butter?
I mean too soggy from the butter.
If I were doing it I would leave off the butter until right before but I haven’t tried making it ahead of time…
I still have nightmares about serving 20 years after the fact. Looks like a great recipe.
I also sprinkled on some finely crushed fried onions, and it was so awesome!!
SERVER NIGHTMARES! I used to wake up in a panic that I forgot ranch for table three! Seriously waking up with heart pounding and unable to go back to sleep…I so remember those days! Thank god they’re over! 🙂
This looks amazing! Might have to throw some bacon in there too, just saying!
I worked at Tony Roma’s in college and the exact same thing happened with our Onion loaf and of course we were always coming to work without dinner too! I still occasionally have those dreams also…..I wake up in a sweat! Good times 😀
Ok, I know what I’m going to be dreaming about tonight. Holy Jesus that looks good.
Those dreams that you mention? My sisters and I call them ‘waitressing dreams’ and before ever knowing that the others had them, we’d been suffering alone. They always came up when we were stressed out – even 20 years later! For all of us it was a version of some situation about to go out of control where you have drinks waiting at the bar, appetizers up in the kitchen, forgot the dressing on the side, the table of 6 have been done their dinner for quite some time and you should be clearing their table and getting coffees and desserts, brand new people were seated 5 min. ago and you still haven’t gotten to them, someone stops you on the way to the kitchen and asks where exactly is their dinner, and the table of 10 says they have changed their mind and now want their bill to be separated into couples …. And then you forget everything that everyone has ordered.
I wake up sweating every time.
Great recipes!
Can’t wait to try a fruit version! Waitressed for years…still serving the whole restaurant by myself in my dreams lol!
I made this for a play date with six other moms and their children. It was a huge hit! We had a great time making it while the kids played. It definitely takes a little finesse to cut, but fortunately we had two breads to try it on! Now I make it regularly for potlucks or church gatherings. It is always gone before the other dishes are! Great simple bread dish!
This looks SOOOO awesome! Going to make it this weekend for my family.
I make this with Creamy Havarti, everyone loves this. Thanks for a great recipe!!!
this will be on my *table of goodies* during the superbowl! Can’t wait!!
WOW – this was amazing!!! Everyone devoured it! Served it with some homemade tomato soup which went with the bread perfectly:) Thanks so much for the recipe!
Made this tonight and I HAD to comment! Best bread ever! Planning to make again for husband’s friends on Super Bowl sunday. I used every ingredient and loved the poppy seed flavor (my husband couldn’t get enough of it) we ran out of room for main course!! Thank you so much for sharing such an awesome blossom. 🙂
You’re welcome!
I made this bread the other night and it was so very awesome! Thank you for sharing it!
I’ll drop the onions and try garlic powder with minced garlic – mmm
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Beautifully put Anju.
I made this last night with a large Italian loaf, minus the poppy seeds. I added some finely diced red pepper, and made up garlic butter instead of leaving it plain. It was tasty.
Uncontrolled drooling. No sour dough BUT rye in freezer. was very nervous which was in vain.absolutely delicious. I promise my next one will be sour dough. THANKS SO MUCH!!!
Omg this is the best recipe I’ve come across in a long time!! We ar going to eat it on soup night with tomato soup instead of chilled cheese sandwiches! Thank you so much!!
We tried your recipe this past Thursday, and it was great. We modified it for some picky eaters. It was the PERFECT finger food for a group. We posted about it on our blog, check it out if you’d like: http://pinterestingevenings.blogspot.com/2012/08/thursday-night-eats-82312.html Thank you so much for a fun and versatile recipe!
First time to your blog, got the link from Recipe Lion. This looks soooo good…can’t wait to try it! Wonder if you could do something like this as a cheesy garlic bread? Thanks for sharing this recipe!!
Looks wonderful…This will be on my table soon. Love from Türkiye….
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Thanks so much for the recipe. We featured it in our weekly food trend blog post. You can check it out here. Thanks again!
http://blog.recipelion.com/food-trend-pull-apart-breads/
Having a girls weekend…might just have to break this recipe out!! Love it…thanks for sharing!
Definitely trying this version of the bread pulls sometime in the near future. Most likely sticking to shredded cheese though I’m guessing you get more cheese if you use the slices?
I’ve officially been out of the serving business for 2 years now, and I STILL have nightmares about not being able to get to the table, I can’t get their drinks for them…..I once dreamed that the drink station was three blocks away from the restaurant….sigh…..
Made this today and every one raved over it! fabulous! I did leave out the poppy seeds but it was still awesome!
christy, i have anxiety dreams about serving all the time! usually it’s about a table that’s been waiting for me for like, 20 minutes and i still haven’t gotten their drinks. it’s been almost a decade since i’ve stopped working at various Outbacks. i wonder if i’ll have these dreams forever?!
@Audrey, Great question. You can definitely make them without!
Looks amazing but why the poppy seeds? Can it be made without them?
Looks amazing but why the poppy seeds? Can it be made without them?
This was the #1 favorite at our Super Bowl party tonight!
I made this using the butter mixture from Dine and Dish’s Oven Ham Sammies. Delish! Excellent (easy) appetizer for a party.
I worked at the Outback too and know exactly what you mean about dead food and waitress nightmares! Can’t wait to try this…looks delicious!
I used to wait tables at Lonestar Steakhouse while in college!! I don’t know many people who know what “dead” food is!! LOL. Going to have to try this!!
I have made this a few times and it is awesome! I only make it to take somewhere for pot luck because otherwise I would eat the whole thing. It is good with and without the poppy seeds. I also have found that I like it best with garlic crusty bread.
I added a few cloves of garlic to the butter… fantastic recipe! My kids loved it!
I added a few cloves of garlic as well… fantastic recipe!
@Sarah,
I think it’s worth a try. Great idea!