Garlic & Onions: Baked Penne Pasta Recipe

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Laura Banford. I'm going to teach you how to make baked Penne with sausage. In this clip we're going to prep our onions and our garlic for the tomato sauce. I'm using a nice red onion and a head of garlic, the way we dice our onions is cut off the root end and other end. I'm going to score it, it makes it easy to peel and the way I like to do it for this dicing is slice the onion in half and slice thin even professional strips of onion and that is going to make it easy to go through with your knife. You don't want big chunks of onion in your sauce very uniform so they all cook at the same time. As far as our garlic this is a whole head of garlic get some cloves off there, pull the outer layers of skin and then you take the bulb of garlic and hit it with your knife (back of your knife) like that. When you hit it the rest of the skin should come right off and then you're going to hit it again, dice it up and that is how you get a clove of garlic out of it's skin. When we come back we are going to saute all of our vegetables in butter and olive oil."