Loads of onions

anguk

I'm another one who just chops/slices them and freezes. I started to do it because my OH lost the use of one hand and finds it difficult to prepare food, so I chuck a big batch in the food processor to slice or chop then freeze them. Then when OH makes something he can just grab a handful out of the freezer and chuck it in the pan! I do the same with reduced peppers too.

Thriftlady has a good tutorial for batch making a veg base to put in the freezer, that would use up some of your onions:
http://thequincetree65.blogspot.com/2011/01/cheering-up-and-chopping-up.html

Sambucus_Nigra

When you say 'needs to be used' do you mean that they are rotting, or growing out the middle or just old?

Onions can stay happily in the cool for months and months; so unless the first 2 are occurring, they will probably be fine for ages yet.

quintwins

if your short on fridge/freezer space you could make onion marmalade it's more like a chutney than marmalade tho, heres a recipe

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/534943

lostinrates

Onion tart. My favourite way for this is to put enough onions to cover an oven safe frying pan on the hob to soften in butter, with thyme, for a long tie on low, perhaps a pinch of sugar to taste. Then cover the onions with a scone mix (a cheese scone mix ight be nice, I've never tried that) and put the whole lot in the oven till scone done, then turn out...a bit like tarte tatin.

Caution: this doesn't make good left overs because of the scone going stale quickly, so eat it when there are enough people to finish it off in a sitting

meritaten

oooohhhhh all those onions! get yourself a big huge saucepan and some sterilised small jars and make caremelised onions! so handy..........so delicious!
the way I do it is
peel and slice my onions
then add a little oil to the pan and add the onions, a little salt and pepper and a teaspoon or two of sugar (you can use ordinary granulated or any of the brown sugars). then cook gently until they turn a beautiful golden brown. Just make sure they dont burn!! this can take up to 30 minutes as the gentler the heat the better the flavour. put into the sterile jars.
it tastes fantastic on hot dogs or burgers.
you can make a virtually instant onion gravy with them - just turn out a couple of tablespoons of the caramelised onions into a pan and warm up - add a spoonful of flour or cornflour and cook gently then add stock or just water (or wine if you want to splash out) and bring to the boil, turn the heat down simmer for a minute or two and there you have it! really gorgeous onion gravy!
or you can add a couple of spoonsfulls to a stew or casserole for instant flavour.
or use with cold meats like a pickle.

zippychick

meritaten wrote: »

oooohhhhh all those onions! get yourself a big huge saucepan and some sterilised small jars and make caremelised onions! so handy..........so delicious!
the way I do it is
peel and slice my onions
then add a little oil to the pan and add the onions, a little salt and pepper and a teaspoon or two of sugar (you can use ordinary granulated or any of the brown sugars). then cook gently until they turn a beautiful golden brown. Just make sure they dont burn!! this can take up to 30 minutes as the gentler the heat the better the flavour. put into the sterile jars.
it tastes fantastic on hot dogs or burgers.
you can make a virtually instant onion gravy with them - just turn out a couple of tablespoons of the caramelised onions into a pan and warm up - add a spoonful of flour or cornflour and cook gently then add stock or just water (or wine if you want to splash out) and bring to the boil, turn the heat down simmer for a minute or two and there you have it! really gorgeous onion gravy!
or you can add a couple of spoonsfulls to a stew or casserole for instant flavour.
or use with cold meats like a pickle.

YOINK!!!!!!! I'm drooling! :D

zippychick

meritaten wrote: »

oooohhhhh all those onions! get yourself a big huge saucepan and some sterilised small jars and make caremelised onions! so handy..........so delicious!
the way I do it is
peel and slice my onions
then add a little oil to the pan and add the onions, a little salt and pepper and a teaspoon or two of sugar (you can use ordinary granulated or any of the brown sugars). then cook gently until they turn a beautiful golden brown. Just make sure they dont burn!! this can take up to 30 minutes as the gentler the heat the better the flavour. put into the sterile jars.
it tastes fantastic on hot dogs or burgers.
you can make a virtually instant onion gravy with them - just turn out a couple of tablespoons of the caramelised onions into a pan and warm up - add a spoonful of flour or cornflour and cook gently then add stock or just water (or wine if you want to splash out) and bring to the boil, turn the heat down simmer for a minute or two and there you have it! really gorgeous onion gravy!
or you can add a couple of spoonsfulls to a stew or casserole for instant flavour.
or use with cold meats like a pickle.

I can't even begin to explain how delicious these are! I left mine for around 90 minutes but was surprised how much they condense down.

Burnt the second batch Must try the gravy!

MaggieBaking

You really really should!!

angelaf_3

This is probably a real stupid question but are onions supposed to look greenish, especially for the first few layers, when you peel them?

crazyguy

I think they are either under or slighty over ripe, you can still use them of course,