Loads of onions

bargainbetty

Onion marmalade. Google any recipe and make onion marmalade. You won't regret it, and you won't have it long anyway.

Sambucus_Nigra

Leave them in the bag and use them as and when you need them. Keep them cool and they shouldn't start sprouting until new year.

rachbc

They shoudl keep for ages as they are, alternatively I would slice and cook very slowly for along long time til they are caramelised and luscious. I then open freeze in icecream scoop sized lumps, bag up then use straight from frozen. great way to start a soup/ stew or as a filing for omlette/fritatta, stir in a spoon of cream and some cheese and toss with pasta, use to fill a tart/ quiche or top a pizza

SailorSam

I use a lot of onions and wondered when i saw those in Lidl could i use just that many, but while they're cheap it's to good to miss.

krlyr

I freeze chopped red onion. It goes too soggy when defrosted to eat raw but I suppose you'd be eating raw white onion a lot less than red onion! They've been fine to cook from frozen, I tend to open-freeze and just scatter a handful onto pizzas that are a bit thin on toppings, into a fajita mix, etc.

kettlenic

I would definitely make chutney!!

Meadows

foxblade wrote: »

Sorry I couldn't help myself the MSE bug got me and I could hear you all muttering how good a bargain it is!
Lidl 5kg Onions were £1.99, then last week they reduced them to £1.49 fantastic I thought so bought some.....
Now today one week later they are 5kg for 99p!! So I urmmm bought another bag, but now I have more onions than I can use! I am sure I have read you can freeze them but need details, facts, tips! So, seeing you lot on this board caused my problem.........Please help me!!

I bought a few bags of these a while ago, but found a lot of them were soft or spoiled in the middle.

Yes you can freeze (for cooking - too mushy for anything else), so either dice or slice and throw in the freezer. Either open freeze and add to a large bag when frozen , or bag and freeze and disturb the contents a few tomes while freezing.

bossymoo

French onion soup is lovely

Grimbal

a little OT for which I apologise, but I have a vague memory of someone saying that they cooked onions in a slow cooker - does anyone else remember that too ?

sonastin

I have just finished the big sack that I bought from Costco in about June this year. Might be 20kg or maybe slightly smaller...

anyways, chopped and froze maybe a dozen onions worth when they were fresh and I could be bothered - those are still in the freezer. then kept the sack cool and dry and used as normal. during the last month they were starting to get a bit past it - needed to peel a couple of extra layers and remove the centres quite often because they were starting to sprout/go soft so I'd maybe use 2 onions to get the same amount as you normally get from one.

But even with that sort of waste it works out much cheaper than buying 1kg at at time from the SM!