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Essential Onion Recipes

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June 21, 2022

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These essential onion recipes are sure to make your favorite dishes and meals even tastier. You’ll be a pro at chopping, sautéing, and caramelizing onions in no time. Plus, we have your favorite onion recipes.

text overlay the best onion recipes with collage of pickled onions, french onions soup, onion rings, grilled onions, creamed onions, caramelized onions, french onion chicken and cream of onion soup

How to Sauté Onions

stainless steel frying pan with sauteed chopped onions; wooden spatula in pan; white and green striped cloth in front left corner; cutting board in background with onion partially chopped and a knife

Caramelized Onions

caramelized onions in a stainless steel frying pan with a wooden spoon in pan; white and green striped cloth in background; cuttiong board in background with partially chopped onion and knife

Best Grilled Onions

Quick-Pickled Onions

small jelly jar with thinly sliced red onions in it; back left is a small white plate with a slice of red onion; right hand side with white condiment bowl in a whole red onion on white cloth

Baked Onion

Baked Vidalia Onions with Butter

Best Creamed Onions

pink cloth with whte casserole dish on top; white creamed onions topped with green herbs; in background partial wedge of cheese, fresh herbs, and small plate with pearl onions on it

Cream of Onion Soup

blue gray plate with a bowl the same color on it and spoon resting on plate; creamy onion soup in bowl topped with fresh green herbs; in background, cutting board with 3 yellow onions on it

Onion Jam

red paper napkin with baguette slice on top with 3 apple slices and a dollop of onion jam with bacon in it; 2 slices baguette in background, 1 red apple in back left corner and jar of onion jam in front corner with small spoon in it; glass of white wine on right side

French Onion Dip

French Onion Chicken 

frying pan with pieces of chicken and croutons in french onion soup topped with melted cheese and fresh parsley; plum colored clothto right of pan and cutting board in background with fresh parsley and onion

French Onion Soup

2 light blue plates with a brown long handled crock of french onion soup with a piece of toasted baguette and melted cheese

Homemade Onion Rings

fried onion rings on a wooden board with a paper towel under it; white condiment bowl on background with ketchup; light blue cloth in back right corner; cutting board in background with uncooked onion rings and knife

Air Fryer Onion Rings

onion rings piled on a round wooden board with paper towel on top; little condiment bowl with ketchup in it to right; onion to left; burgundy cloth in the background with cutting board on it with an onion and sliced onion rings

Instant Pot French Onion Soup

brown crock with french onion soup, toasted bread with melted cheese on top; white plate in background
Essential Onion Recipes

Christine Pittman

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Christine Pittman

Christine is the founder of TheCookful and also of her blog COOKtheSTORY. Her passion is explaining the WHY behind cooking – Why should you cook things a certain way; Will they turn out if you do it differently; What are the pros and cons of the method? Learn more about Christine, her cookbooks, and her podcast.

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