How To Caramelize Onions - Simply Recipes

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Why Make This

  • Slowly caramelizing onions brings out their natural sweetness and rich flavor.
  • Clear step-by-step instructions make the process easy to master. 
  • You can use these onions to top steak, make onion soup, tarts, or pizza.

Caramelizing onions, by slowly cooking them in a little olive oil until they are richly browned, is a wonderful way to pull flavor out of the simplest of ingredients.

Caramelized onions being stirred with a wooden spoon in a cast iron skillet

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You Can't Rush It

Onions are naturally sweet; and as caramel comes from the simple cooking of sugar when you slowly cook onions over an extended period of time, the natural sugars in the onions caramelize, making the result intensely and wonderfully flavorful.

How to Use Caramelized Onions

You can use onions prepared this way on top of steak, or for onion soup, tarts, pizza, or onion dip. Or you can do what I did with this batch, eat it straight up. What are your favorite dishes to make that use caramelized onions? Please let us know in the comments.

By the way, I put together a time-lapse video of the caramelization process, to show how the onions cook down and caramelize over the course of an hour. Enjoy!

Caramelized onions in a cast iron skillet being stirred by a wooden spoon.

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