Dice Onions for Vegetable Beef Soup

Video Transcript

" Helen McMahon, here for Expert Village. The next item in our vegetable beef soup is onion and I select yellow onions. Be sure they are good and firm. This will give you a product that is easy to cut and is nice and fresh. You will just need to cut away the surface. I generally make a V-cut in the top and then just cut around the edge as needed; just try to take off the first layer and that is usually enough. There may be just a little additional part that you want to discard. Notice that I am still contributing to my compost pile here. The other end is a little trickier. You want to insert the tip of your knife and sort of carve out a cone shaped area here and if there is any remaining brown, just slice that bit off. Then along the line where you made your V-cut in the top, I am going to cut down and using my knife try to make uniform slices, right down in this way sometimes you have a little piece on the side that needs to be looked after. But this gives you a very nice stable area. Towards the end, you are going to kind of re-bell and turn all over the place but those bits can just be chopped down. That is about the size that we want. This will permeate the soup; well if you see a piece like that, that got missed, just cut that up a bit and you do the other in the same manner and that will be ready to go into your stock pot as well."