How to Chop Onion for Salsa

"Hi! This is Arie Pytel for Expert Village. We’re continuing our salsa recipe. Now that we’ve blended our tomatoes, chili powder, and garlic, we’re going to put this mixture into our bowl to get ready for the next ingredients. The next ingredient we’re going to add is the onion. We can use either yellow or white onion. The white onion will be a little spicier than the yellow onion. That is preferred to your taste. Whichever type of onion you’re using, you want to mince that fine as possible to make a nice scoop for you chips or whatever type of food you’ll be mixing with the salsa. To begin with, cut your onion in half lengthwise. This allows you to peel your onion very easily. Once the onion is peeled, chop off both ends. Next, cut lengthwise along the lines, which are on the onion, cutting as thin and sliver as possible while still maintaining the onion in one piece by keeping it connected here. This will make mincing faster and easier and in my experience, seems to result in less tear shed from onion juice. Now that we’ve cut it lengthwise, we’re going to mince the onion by cutting down against it. This gives us finely chopped onions."