How to Slice Red Onions

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to slice my red onion. I only need a half of an onion, and I'm going to use the other half for the next appetizer which is the stuffed mushrooms. What I do with this onion after we take this peel off of it, the onion skin, is we want to slice it very thinly. This is going to go into our quesadilla as part of the filling, because as I said, I think that red onion particularly goes really well with barbeque sauce. So we want to slice it very thinly because it's going in raw, and we don't want it to be too overpowering and we want to be able to chew it as part of the filling for our quesadilla. So we want to do it very thinly. So I cut it in half, and I'm almost, as closely as I can, shaving the onion. It's almost like a shaved red onion; really, really thin. This, along with the two kinds of cheese and the chicken and the barbeque sauce, are going to make up the filling. When we come back we are going to assemble and grill our quesadillas."