Dice Onions for Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Soup

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village.  Today, I'm going to show you how to make turkey soup out of leftover turkeys after the holidays are done.  Okay, so now we'll take our onions, and I'm going to peel this sticker off just because that gets in the way.  So you have two ends.  You've got the bulb end that it grows out of, and you have the root end.  We're going to cut the bulb end off.  Be careful especially when you're dealing with a large flat onion like this one.  Get rid of that, dispose of it out of your way.  You want to make sure none of the paper is anywhere near you because it will stick to your onion.  And now we're just going to flip it over and cut straight through just like that.  And there is our sweet onion so this gives you a good chance to peel back the skin.  And the reason you leave that root end on is it will hold it all together right now.  You see that's what's holding and keeping it from falling apart.  If you were to cut it off you would just have bare onion flying around everywhere.  Alrighty, so now what we're going to do, a simple dice.  I'm just going to make a series of about a half inch to three quarters  inch verticle cuts this way, and just the same cuts going across as such.  When you get to this piece you're going to have a little extra, so you can just take your knife like this, slice it off and minimize your amount of waste or trash as the case may be.  So just nice verticle cuts like that, couple more like this, and I'll do one more right here.  And then, I've got some paper trying to stick to me, that's what the onion skin is called, paper.  There we go, take this and put it into our trash pile, and that is the onions.  So real quick I'm going to go ahead and start sauteeing these, and move on to starting our soup.                 "