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Caramelized Onions

Caramelized Onion Dip

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Do you remember the post about How to Caramelize Onions? It is an important technique to learn in the kitchen. Let’s use your new skill to make this recipe for Caramelized Onion Dip. Preparation time to make this Dip is about one minute.  Get the chips ready and dig in!

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Caramelized Onion Dip 

I use huge quantities of caramelized onion in my kitchen.  I make pans and pans of caramelized onion for the most popular of the UrbnSpice savoury Confitures – Caramelized Onion and Roasted Garlic Confiture.  When you consider that the yield achieved from 100% raw onion to caramelized onion is approximately 20%, it takes a great deal of sliced onion to make just one small batch of this confiture.  But, again, so worth the effort.

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Caramelization of the Onions is almost complete – Time to Make Caramelized Onion Dip 

CHEF TALK: Once you know how to caramelize onions, there are hundreds of ways of using them. One of the best is a recipe for Caramelized Onion Dip.  Once you make this delicious dip, you will never buy the store-bought version again.

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Caramelized Onion Dip Ingredients 

CARAMELIZED ONION DIP

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 cup of prepared caramelized onion (See How To here)
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon celery salt
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • Sea salt, to taste

METHOD:

  1. Mix all of the above ingredients together.
  2. Season to taste.
  3. Enjoy with crudités, crostini, of course, chips.  (or use it on the Wats-On Sandwich)

“I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town!

That would be on my last-supper list.”

Christina Hendricks

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How to Caramelize Onions

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The Confident Kitchen Series

Well, it was a sad day in the UrbnSpice kitchen when I realized I had developed a sensitivity to onions – not eating them, thank goodness – only for cutting and chopping them! There was a time when I wore contact lenses for years and years and didn’t have to give cutting onions a second thought. I would smugly chuckle at my teary-eyed colleagues as they prepared their daily mise-en-place. After having laser eye surgery, I now stand before you, adorned in goggles – teary eyed from all the cutting and slicing and dicing. However, this has not stopped me from one of the most important flavour booster processes in the world of cooking – caramelizing onions.  So, in this post, I will share with you How to Caramelize Onions.

Caramelizing Onions

Caramelized Onions

The result of caramelizing onions is so worth the time it takes to make them – the tears are an added bonus – or so I am told. It takes very little effort to make them – it is a great technique for the novice or seasoned cooks. For those cooks who ‘love to hover’ over their speciality dishes, making caramelized onions is intensely gratifying.

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The process of caramelization of bacon and onions will have people coming into your kitchen to see what’s cooking!

The versatility of caramelized onions or shallots alone makes it one of the best flavour enhancers to any dish. It is definitely worth your time to make enough to have on hand for other recipes and uses. Take a lamb burger to epic heights with the addition of caramelized onions. French Onion Soup would not be French Onion Soup without this important ingredient in the process. A bowl of plain onion soup just doesn’t have the same appeal.

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