Onions, Fried
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Peel and slice the onions.
Heat a little cooking fat in a frying pan until hot.
Cook
Add the onions and fry until they are pale brown, stirring or shaking occasionally.
Season to taste.
Cook slowly for about 15 to 20 minutes until quite tender.
Serve
Serve on a hot dish.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Spanish onions
- Provide the main bulk and sweetness that develops as the onions cook down.
- Cooking fat
- Conducts heat into the onions and helps them brown evenly without sticking.
The step that matters
Cook slowly until pale brown and tender. Frying too hot browns the outside before the inside softens, leaving onions bitter and scorched. Gentle heat with occasional stirring lets sugars caramelise slowly and evenly, producing sweet, tender onions.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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