Caramelising onions

OCdude · 6 Oct 2011 at 06:30

I think I'm going to make hot dogs this weekend, so I thought i'd make the effort and do some onions with them too.. how to you people make caramelised onions? It's been an age since i've done it - i've forgotten!

I seem to recall that the most important thing is to salt them (to draw out the moisture) and to cook them really slowly on a low/medium heat. Possibly adding a little sugar as well, to assist with the caramelisation.

Can't remember if it's best to cover them as well, or it's fine doing them in a frying pan?

Tips welcome!

OCdude · 6 Oct 2011 at 07:36

SHEDDER1uk said:
A whole 5 second google search
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_caramelize_onions/

Yes thanks for that :rolleyes:

Here's a crazy idea - let's hear other peoples personal methods in a forum designed for cooking related discussion perhaps?

OCdude · 6 Oct 2011 at 16:39

Thanks for the tips guys!

Would keeping them covered result in them begin stewed and rather..... minging? lol

OCdude · 6 Oct 2011 at 16:59

Ah gotcha. Right - will see how it goes this weekend, when i'm gorging myself on hot-dogs, thanks

OCdude · 8 Oct 2011 at 19:27

In the end I decided to put the pan on quite hot, chop the onions medium thick, put loads of vegetable oil in the pan (in hindsight, probably a bit too much), then, after browning them for a few minutes, turned it right down and occasionally stirred them for about 30 mins.... turned out rather yummily

Rubbish photo, but this is how they looked towards the end (I cooked them for about another 15 mins after the photo, so they ended up deeper brown and sweeter).