Chop Onions for French Onion Soup Beef Stock

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village. Okay let's peel our onions okay in some cases you could use this actually throw these yellow peels into the stock and that gives it a deeper color, it would give it a more yellowy color if you like to do that. You can just rinse them off. To peel your onion we are just going to cut off a little of the top, keep the root in tact and we are just going to rough chop this onion. Cut it in half, cut it through the top and down, just like in 1/2 inch slices and then cut across like this and then you can cut up the root section that would give you a nice big chop. Again the other section you keep the root section in tact it holds the onion together while you are working and just slice and when you put your knife and you don't go all the way you don't cut the whole onion in half you go in about a quarter inch or something just not to break the root section and you cut like this. My knife is going in here, not here, it is going in here, I'm cutting across and now that holds the onion and it stays together. As you can see the roots section is holding that onion together even though it is cut so when you cut across it is a lot easier the onion is not slipping and sliding and falling out of your hands and then with that root section you can just chop it up a little more. Okay to the same thing with your second onion. "