Sautéed Onions – Rachel Cooks®

You may not make a batch of sautéed onions as a stand-alone aspect dish like sautéed Brussels sprouts or sautéed cabbage—I imply, except you actually love onions. Consider this recipe as extra of an accompaniment, alongside the traces of marinated tomatoes or Korean pickles.

Add sautéed onions to steak or pork chops and also you’ve immediately given it an improve—and also you solely wanted one ingredient to do it! (Not counting the oil, salt and pepper since you’ve got these already.)

This recipe can be utilized with any kind of onion and it may be personalized in loads of other ways. I’ll share a number of concepts later on this publish!

Causes to Love Sautéed Onions

• Provides a bit of further one thing to your dinner. I discover myself making sautéed onions a few times per week as an add-on for meats, sandwiches, and even grilled cheese. It provides dishes further oomph and makes them extra filling. Onions add vitamin to your meal, too (another veggie in your plate!).
• Sautéed, not caramelized. Sure, we love caramelized onions, however will we all the time have time for them? Sautéed onions are the subsequent smartest thing! They’re achieved in a fraction of the time so that they’re sensible for a weeknight dinner.
• Nice for utilizing up onions. Typically you find yourself with an entire bag of onions while you solely wanted one onion for a recipe. (Be aware to Aldi: Please begin promoting single onions, thanks!) You possibly can put them to make use of by making sautéed onions. Pickled crimson onions are one other nice approach to make the most of further onions.

Ingredient Notes

• Onions: Vidalia, candy, yellow, white, crimson, and every other type of bulb onion work for this sautéed onion recipe. (Sorry, inexperienced onions, we’re saving you for loaded mashed potato casserole!) You need to use this recipe to sauté shallots too.
• Olive Oil or Unsalted Butter: You need to use one or the opposite, or use them each.
• Kosher Salt and Pepper: I like including loads of coarsely floor black pepper for taste.
• Balsamic Vinegar: That is non-obligatory and very tasty on steak.

Find out how to make Sautéed Onions

Prep the onions. Peel the onions (chopping the ends off first could make it simpler); then reduce them into ¼ -inch thick rings. In the event you choose, reduce the onion in half earlier than you slice it for half-moon rings (that is safer too, as a result of it provides you a flat floor). Dicing can also be an choice; they’ll cook dinner sooner this manner.

Warmth the skillet. Heat the olive oil and/or butter in a big skillet set over medium warmth.

Prepare dinner the onions. Add the onions to the skillet and stir to coat. Sprinkle within the salt and pepper. Prepare dinner the onions over medium warmth for 10 to fifteen minutes, stirring steadily, till they’re comfortable and evenly browned.

Serve. In the event you’d prefer to up the flavour with balsamic vinegar, stir it in on the finish of the cooking time. Season the onions to style with extra salt and pepper, and serve.

Ideas for Success

• Reduce the onions evenly. In case you have thicker slices, they’ll nonetheless be agency and even a bit crunchy when the remainder of the onions are achieved cooking. A mandoline slicer may help with this however I choose utilizing a great sharp knife.
• Decrease the warmth as wanted. If the onions are browning too rapidly, cut back the warmth to medium-low. You don’t need them to overcook on the surface earlier than they’re softened during. That is the important thing to good sautéed onions.

Variations

• Prepare dinner longer in the event you’d like. Wish to take these sautéed onions a bit of bit additional? You possibly can cook dinner them so long as you’d like. Maintain going and so they’ll be jammy and caramelized!
• Add one other vinegar. Sherry vinegar, apple cider vinegar, and crimson wine vinegar all work too. Every has its personal distinct taste.
• Improve the flavour with herbs and spices. You possibly can add dried herbs and spices at first of the cooking time or recent herbs close to the tip. Rosemary and thyme are all the time good, smoked paprika is superb in the event you’re including your sautéed onions to burgers, and chili powder is nice in the event you’re making tacos.

My Favourite Methods to Use Sautéed Onions

• Meats: Add them to pork chops à la this pork chops with balsamic caramelized onions recipe or use them to jazz up air fryer pork tenderloin, roasted bone in hen breasts, garlic butter steak bites, or actually every other primary dish protein.
• Burgers and sandwiches: Air fryer hamburgers, black bean burgers, and pizza panini sandwiches are all even tastier with sautéed onions as a topping.
• Greens: I like caramelized or sautéed onions on these cauliflower steaks, or stir them right into a batch of air fryer Brussels sprouts.
• All the pieces else: Add to pizza, tacos (like these mushroom tacos), meal bowls, pasta, and extra!

I prefer to make a batch of those sautéed onions and hold them available within the fridge so as to add to meals all through the week. Refrigerate the onions in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days or freeze them for as much as 3 months. Reheat within the microwave or in a skillet set over medium warmth.

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• Peel the onions and thinly slice them (¼-inch thick slices). You possibly can reduce them into rings or half-moons, relying in your choice.

  2 kilos onions

• In a big skillet or pan, warmth olive oil and/or unsalted butter over medium warmth.

  2 tablespoons olive oil or unsalted butter

• Add the sliced onions to the skillet. Stir to coat the onions evenly with the oil or butter. Sprinkle salt and black pepper over the onions.

  ½ teaspoon kosher salt, extra to style, ¼ teaspoon coarse floor black pepper, extra to style

• Prepare dinner the onions over medium warmth, stirring steadily. Permit them to cook dinner for 10 to fifteen minutes or till comfortable and translucent. If onions are browning too rapidly, flip warmth to medium-low (cook dinner time could improve barely in the event you select to do that). In the event you choose browner onions, improve warmth to medium-high and proceed to cook dinner till desired shade is achieved.

• If desired, add 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar within the final minutes of cooking time.

  1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar, non-obligatory

• Style the sautéed onions and regulate the seasoning if wanted. You possibly can add extra salt or pepper in response to your choice.

• In the event you choose, you may chop or cube the onions. Prepare dinner time will lower barely.
• Onion varieties: Any kind of onion will work (crimson, candy, yellow, or Vidalia). Use what you want finest.
• Serving concepts: Serve these scrumptious sautéed onions as a flexible topping for burgers, sandwiches, steaks, salads, or as a flavorful aspect dish.
• Storage: Cooked onions might be refrigerated for as much as 5 days or frozen for as much as 3 months. 

Serving: 1serving, Energy: 78kcal, Carbohydrates: 11g, Protein: 1g, Fats: 4g, Saturated Fats: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fats: 3g, Sodium: 150mg, Potassium: 169mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 5g, Vitamin A: 3IU, Vitamin C: 8mg, Calcium: 27mg, Iron: 0.3mg

Diet data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

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