How to Caramelize Onions

[Music] hi my name is Freeman Moser senior executive chef at craft food service today I'm going to show you a very simple technique caramelizing onions we use caramelized onions that craft in a variety of burger builds they add a sweet and savory component and really pumps up the flavor first step in caramelizing an onion of course is getting it fabricated there's a large variety of ways fabricate onions I'm going to show you my favorite I take through the core go right down through the center and then I'm going to remove that root just a little bit so that I get nice uniform pieces and then what makes the way I fabricate these onions just a teeny bit different is I use what I refer to as a radial cut and it makes for a more uniform piece here's what that looks like so we we go in about this angle and then we just start straightening up our knife and by the top I'm almost vertical and then just continue around now if this gets a little clumsy for you don't be afraid to just lay the onion over and then you can come in and you've got a much flatter surface now what a lot of chefs do is they take that onion hopefully they're going to remove this core but they just go straight down through the onion now I want to show you how the cuts that I've made are going to be a lot more uniform by by using that technique so if we look we can see how uniform those pieces are compared to an onion where I just went went straight through I just think it yields a much nicer result so to begin caramelizing our onions first thing we're going to do is I want to to show you we're going to use pretty moderate heat if you try to caramelize over this high temperature you're you're really just going to burn your own onions so I use a very very moderate Heap to begin this process I have a olive oil here now I'm not using extra virgin although you could but I just like to use a nice pomas olive oil and we don't want too much oil in the pan or the onions just really get too fatty so just enough to really coat the pan nicely now if when you add the onions to the pan the first thing you hear is sort of that crackle sound of a sauté you know you've got your oil in your pan way way too hot we just want to start these things off really nice so just you can just see what a what a nice um Gentle Beginning these onions are going to have and then I just toss them a little bit just to kind of evenly evenly coat with oil okay at this phase um some chefs add sugar I don't like to add sugar at all I think it speeds up the process unnecessarily really changes the characteristic of the onions um so I want to clarify that because what I'm doing right now is I'm adding salt and as we know what salt does other than adding the flavor to the to the onions it draws moisture out which is what we'd like to have happen to these onions as they begin to caramelize so we can see at about 5 minute Mark we've got the moisture coming out of the onion nicely caramelization hasn't begun yet but uh we'll just we'll just let them be a little bit here so here we are about 10 minutes into the process and you can see we've got some caramelization beginning in the onion so here we are at about 20 minutes and we really have some beautiful caramelization beginning in the onion okay we're at about the 30 minute Mark and you can see we're really getting some beautiful caramelization now I could pull them right now but I like to take them just a little bit further okay we're at about the 45 minute Mark you can just see how beautifully these onions have have caramelized one thing you've probably noticed is the reduction in overall volume of the onions and you're just having that because the moisture is is being released so I think at this point we're done now that you've caramelized those onions I've got a great recipe on our website that you can Source just look for the maple bacon burger with white cheddar mushrooms and caramelized onions and Bullseye original bowed barbecue sauce another great sandwich to use those caramelized onions in is a grilled cheese and veggie sandwich it's also one of our Healthy Living recipes it uses a multi-grain bread some Deon mustard and craft shredded Monteray jack cheese thanks so much for watching I hope that was helpful go to craft food service.ca for more recipes and ideas and while you're there be sure to sign up for craft works it's our exclusive online program designed for Food Service professionals

Channel: Kraft Heinz Foodservice Canada

Views: 337,267

Keywords: caramelize onions, how to video, Kraft Foodservice, culinary technique

Id: -s4WY6KtEU8

Length: 5min 25sec (325 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 20 2013