Can I just run this one past all you experienced cooks out there please?

Olliebeak

The 'microwave softened' onions and peppers are now sitting in my SC with half a pound of diced turkey (about 90p for half a tray in ASDA*), tin of chopped tomatoes, some dried mixed herbs, couple of crushed cloves of garlic and a chicken stock cube dissolved in a little boiling water - and it smells heavenly! Not sure what we're having it with yet - rice, pasta, jacket spuds - see what we feel like later!!

* I buy the tray of diced turkey thigh and then split it into two lots before freezing. It's usually around £1.90 for a tray of about 1lb - so works out quite economical. It can be bulked out further by adding extra veggies or a tin of mixed beans to make half a tray feed four people - but I'm happy with this amount of 'spend' for our Sunday Meal.

noonesperfect

Someone told me about micro-softening onions whether it be to go in stuffings, casseroles or whatever and have been doing it ever since. It's quicker, less fat and washing up is easier too! A winner all round in my book.

They would have to fried tho' if we were having the rare treat of hotdogs :eek:

lovelyjubbly

I have to say I always soften my onions in my microwave when they are for any sort of sauce, ie for pasta or to go in soup, I hate using the fryingpan unless it is to make the onions go lovely and brown to go with sausages, or with a steak etc. I chop them really small, I use a shallow dish, a little water, and cook at high for 3 mins, my microwave is 850. The water, what little there is, from the onions also goes into the sauce or soup.

Lyndsay_21

i add onions to virtually everything even if i do buy a jar to make a dinner i add onions to it, i tend to just cook them in the thing i'm using to cook the dinner in (iyswim), i've not had a hob for about 3 months and have been using the oven for everything and just put the onions in the dish to cook fist then add the rest of the ingrediant i very rarely use oil with them.