Description
Don’t you adore dishes that taste as good as they look? Not only do these Warm Apple & Caramelized Onion Crostini with Fontina & Crispy Prosciutto live up to their looks, they make for a perfect appetizer that’s sure to please all your apple-loving friends!
Ingredients
Scale
- Caramelized Onions
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
- 3 large yellow onions, chopped
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp. sugar
- Apples
- 3 SnapDragon apples, cored and diced (do not peel)
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1/8 cup brown sugar
- 1/8 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
- 8 slices of prosciutto, crispy
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 8 – 12 oz. fontina cheese, shredded
- 8 slices dense harvest bread (I used apple cider & golden raisin bread)
Instructions
- For the onions, place olive oil and butter in a large frying pan over medium-low until butter melts.
- Add the onions. Let them cook, stirring occasionally, until they are light golden brown.
- Add the salt and sugar and continue to cook and stir until they are soft and golden, about 45 minutes.
- While the onions are doing their thing, prepare the apples. In a medium bowl combine diced apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, sugar and cayenne.
- Add apples to the onions and sauté until apples just begin to soften. Remove from heat and set aside.
- To crisp prosciutto, preheat a skillet over medium heat with 1 Tbsp. olive oil, place slices in pan and cook for about 3 minutes, until crispy.
- Remove from heat, let cool, then break into small bite-sized pieces.
- In the meantime, preheat broiler.
- Place bread on top rack and toast for about a minute then flip and toast for another minute.
- Remove crostini from the oven and place slices on a sheet pan.
- Top crostini with a small amount of shredded fontina, then the apple mixture, and more fontina.
- Place back under broiler until cheese melts, about a minute.
- Remove from oven and top with crispy prosciutto bits.
- Serve warm.